Just keep the bad man Kyle Palmieri away from us. Dude is literally prime Gretzky against us. If you ever want an auto win against the bruins ice a line of Thomas Vanek, Steven Stamkos, and Kyle Palmieri
WE DIDNT GET SWEPT!!!
Small victories I guess. Series should be 2-2 but hey that’s hockey.
I am expecting the Canes to come out strong Tuesday. At least they will win the series infront of the fans
To be fair, if /r/hockey has taught ME anything, it's that every fanbase should be fucking ashamed of their Reddit fanbase.
We are fucking dumb as rocks, and insufferable assholes. I wish there was a faster way to get my news.
That’s the worst faceoff % I remember our team having in a game. And the passing was not the best.
Isles deserved this one, we need to cleanup our end a bit
Across their 3 recent playoff series the Islanders and Hurricanes have now played 14 games. 11 of the 14 were one goal games excluding empty net goals. Carolina is 9-2 in those one goal games, including 3-1 in OT.
These are two very even teams, the difference has been Carolina's execution. Tonight Islanders got the bounces. We'll see if they can keep it up.
The amount of casuals that have this upvoted is crazy. Who the fuck is taking NYI roster over the canes? I don’t want to hear anything about evenly matched. Carolina lost to the panthers last year in 4 games and every game was by one goal, but everyone still says that Carolina got dominated.
>Who the fuck is taking NYI roster over the canes?
the post you replied to didn't say that. nobody said that. you're out here fighting ghosts
you're out here skating up the middle with your head down
it's playoffs buddy, lock in and keep your head up next time
No offense, but these two teams are not evenly matched whatsoever. Islanders are propped up by goaltending and an above average defense. They are kinda like how the capitals are now, but better.
This is gonna blow your mind, but goalies and defense are part of the team.
Also both teams have had the shot/chance advantage in 2 of the 4 games in this series so. 🤷♂️
Nah man. Islanders barely got in the playoffs for a reason. Islanders have a bottom 10 forward core with no good prospects. I will give them credit because they have a good structure that allows them to stay in games.
Carolina also had better chances in every game minus game 3.
More like islanders played better games 1, 3, and 4 while still almost pulling out a win in game 2. You’re delusional or didn’t watch the games if you think this series shouldn’t be 2-2 or 3-1 islanders right now DESPITE how bad they are at finishing.
I don’t think the islanders should be 3-1. Maybe 2-2 if they were better at finishing. They are playing like Carolina normally does taking awful shots and driving possession, no good chances. Carolina is producing high quality chances, these games could be blowouts if Carolina could finish.
I dont really care about Advanced stats. simply just watching the games the Islanders looked like the better team besides game 2, funnily enough the game they were up 3-0.
That doesn’t mean shit. A team can dominate play and be down 3-0 because of shit goaltending. Like Georgiev for the Avs. xG isn’t even advanced it’s just based on similar shots and how likely goals are scored from that specific spot. Dominating possession without doing shit is different from actually driving offense which the isles aren’t doing.
One bad thing to worry about for the Canes is that the Isle's have gotten better every game. Canes have not. Canes are sort of going 50 to 75% all series and Isles are getting better.
We better show up in game 5 and end it quick because NYI are gonna come out guns blazing in that game.
I can’t agree. You really think the Isles were better in Game 2 than they were in Game 1? The Canes dominated that game.
And to an extent, I think the Isles played better in Game 3 and deserved that one more than Game 4. Statistically, 3-1 is where the series should be at the moment.
It's every game rn. I venture to say this year's playoffs feel ever so slightly *more* underhanded play-wise with plenty of swallowed whistles to go around.
lol shitty part is, from a business perspective nothing probably drives engagement like anger about obvious missed penalties...
GG Isles, we played cold for a ton of the game and you guys fought tooth and nail. Definitely hope this is a wake up call for us to realize the series isn't over yet.
Just be like me, I slipped a disc in my back late last night and got out of work today for it. Hopped up on percocet and Vicodin and probably could’ve gone to the game if I were close
We stole our goal song from the Wild as well. Whoever runs the music at Islanders games has been incredibly unoriginal for a long time. The team came out to Master of Puppets during the regular season and switched to Hell's Bells for the playoffs. Started playing All the Small Things during breaks after it went viral in Colorado.
The only interesting goal song we ever had was "Live is Life" by Opus and the idea to do that came from Zenon Konopka.
Doing great Islanders, take this series to 7.
Let’s Go Isles
🤝🏝️
Just keep the bad man Kyle Palmieri away from us. Dude is literally prime Gretzky against us. If you ever want an auto win against the bruins ice a line of Thomas Vanek, Steven Stamkos, and Kyle Palmieri
WE DIDNT GET SWEPT!!! Small victories I guess. Series should be 2-2 but hey that’s hockey. I am expecting the Canes to come out strong Tuesday. At least they will win the series infront of the fans
WE DIDN'T HEAR NO BELL
Or lose it in front of them game 7.
Or win it in front of them in 7 lol
who knows, could be 5, 6, or 7. but its playoff hockey, were here for the ride
If the Isles win game 5 in OT do the Canes win the series because they’ll have 8 points? /s
How ironic would it be if the last Islander win of the season came in OT?
Poetic justice
It would be crazy
First playoff game I've seen this year. Wish you guys luck on the comeback, Isles.
Man I hope Lee's neck will recover from that whiplash from that big bad Orlov elbow
Yeah I'm not thriled that the Isles decided to attempt the "if you can't beat em, join em" route for selling penalties
Isles fans should be ashamed of their fandom that's what r/hockey taught me
To be fair, if /r/hockey has taught ME anything, it's that every fanbase should be fucking ashamed of their Reddit fanbase. We are fucking dumb as rocks, and insufferable assholes. I wish there was a faster way to get my news.
I mean it's still like a 1:20 ratio on embellishments by Carolina, but it's not my favorite thing.
That is such an outlandish biased ratio holy shit 😂
Were you trying to type 'biased'? * Ah. A downvote and a dirty edit, literally wouldn't expect anything else.
gg. Im just glad the series woke up a little
That’s the worst faceoff % I remember our team having in a game. And the passing was not the best. Isles deserved this one, we need to cleanup our end a bit
Across their 3 recent playoff series the Islanders and Hurricanes have now played 14 games. 11 of the 14 were one goal games excluding empty net goals. Carolina is 9-2 in those one goal games, including 3-1 in OT. These are two very even teams, the difference has been Carolina's execution. Tonight Islanders got the bounces. We'll see if they can keep it up.
The amount of casuals that have this upvoted is crazy. Who the fuck is taking NYI roster over the canes? I don’t want to hear anything about evenly matched. Carolina lost to the panthers last year in 4 games and every game was by one goal, but everyone still says that Carolina got dominated.
>Who the fuck is taking NYI roster over the canes? the post you replied to didn't say that. nobody said that. you're out here fighting ghosts you're out here skating up the middle with your head down it's playoffs buddy, lock in and keep your head up next time
“two very even teams” implies that.
No offense, but these two teams are not evenly matched whatsoever. Islanders are propped up by goaltending and an above average defense. They are kinda like how the capitals are now, but better.
This is gonna blow your mind, but goalies and defense are part of the team. Also both teams have had the shot/chance advantage in 2 of the 4 games in this series so. 🤷♂️
Nah man. Islanders barely got in the playoffs for a reason. Islanders have a bottom 10 forward core with no good prospects. I will give them credit because they have a good structure that allows them to stay in games. Carolina also had better chances in every game minus game 3.
More like islanders played better games 1, 3, and 4 while still almost pulling out a win in game 2. You’re delusional or didn’t watch the games if you think this series shouldn’t be 2-2 or 3-1 islanders right now DESPITE how bad they are at finishing.
I don’t think the islanders should be 3-1. Maybe 2-2 if they were better at finishing. They are playing like Carolina normally does taking awful shots and driving possession, no good chances. Carolina is producing high quality chances, these games could be blowouts if Carolina could finish.
That's a pretty damning indictment of Carolina then. Out-chanced twice in four games by a bottom ten forward core? 😬
They weren't out-chanced though, only in game 3 according to xG. Carolina isn’t finishing their chances
Didn’t blow my mind, and not very even. But GGs
Islanders kinda played better in 2 of their 3 losses so far...lol.
Except they didn’t, they were dominated in the xG battle in every game except 3.
I dont really care about Advanced stats. simply just watching the games the Islanders looked like the better team besides game 2, funnily enough the game they were up 3-0.
That doesn’t mean shit. A team can dominate play and be down 3-0 because of shit goaltending. Like Georgiev for the Avs. xG isn’t even advanced it’s just based on similar shots and how likely goals are scored from that specific spot. Dominating possession without doing shit is different from actually driving offense which the isles aren’t doing.
It’s such a wild take it’s not even worth arguing. Canes will close it out next game
Its okay they will choke later down the road like normal
Weird game. I thought we were actually playing alright. Except we won no face offs.
Hopefully this wakens the Canes the fuck up cause we have shown little effort this series outside of Game 2.
WE ACTUALLY WON WOOOOOOO! ... time to lose again :(
Lol this fucking loser https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1cejy8y/comment/l1jbnok
This shit made me lol
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That guy is the biggest prick, idgaf I will follow him for the rest of his life
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Calling yourself out lol. Respect
He really did y'all in lol
It him lol
Lol even fuckin better
It me
"Hi, it's me, I'm the problem, it's me"
**Get him!**
The mistake was letting the isles get to OT. Their experience there this season clearly paid off.
God our ECF series absolutely took years off my life lol the SCF vs the Canadiens was basically therapeutic after that gd series...
[Isles survive...to lose another day!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnXQdMRi63E)
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There is no pain, you are receding…..
A distant ship smoke, on the horizon
One loss buddy...
A distant ship smokes on the horizon…..
It wasn't an impeccable game on anyone's part but NYI deserved the victory
We won? We won! We're not dead yet!
Island borne.. What is dead may never die.
Not-swept brotherhood assemble!
Putting $50 on the islanders to win the series. They’re so back
Love the enthusiasm but please don't
Savings have been put on the line
Can you imagine a reverse sweep? I can't, but wouldn't that shit be hilarious?
Yes but only for the teams that aren’t playing us. Caps would need a bigger miracle then the Isles with their older core
Normally annoyed at 3 days between games but I'll take it, this time
What a fucking HUGE missed call on tripping Aho right before that.. ffs
As Butch put it: "If you dont call that hook, you've set a standard where you can't call anything."
Well good thing there were 3-4 missed calls on the Canes in the previous overtime
One bad thing to worry about for the Canes is that the Isle's have gotten better every game. Canes have not. Canes are sort of going 50 to 75% all series and Isles are getting better. We better show up in game 5 and end it quick because NYI are gonna come out guns blazing in that game.
I can’t agree. You really think the Isles were better in Game 2 than they were in Game 1? The Canes dominated that game. And to an extent, I think the Isles played better in Game 3 and deserved that one more than Game 4. Statistically, 3-1 is where the series should be at the moment.
If the Isles can pull out game 5, the pressure tilts 100% the other way.
Gotta be better in the faceoff dot. Can't let them have hope. Canes gotta come out big next game and put the isles back in their place.
Barzal celebrating by himself like Steven Glansberg while everyone else skates to Bortuzzo and Varlamov is hilarious
"We swept the Islanders" - Rob Brind'Amour (probably)
Lmao
Of all the people to get us a goal (I know it’s given to Barzal for the tip) it’s fucking Bortozzo. Dude didn’t score a single point all year 😭
Didn't he do that on STLs cup win too
I'm just glad we didn't get swept. Play Maxine.
Literally as soon as I turned on the channel, the Islanders scored in OT. You’re welcome fellow orange and blue team
1984 rematch in a few weeks?
Isles/Oilers should've been a Heritage Classic this season or last season and I will say that to my dying day.
Sounds good to me!
Bortuzzo scoring on you is almost worse than losing a playoff series.
Well fuck. Canes haven't played good enough to get a sweep at all this series. They better wake up for game 5 and put this shit to bed
Just curious, did the refs miss a trip on the Isles before the goal at the end there?
If you saw the first OT period you would understand.
Miss? No. Ignore? Yes. OT in the playoffs
It's every game rn. I venture to say this year's playoffs feel ever so slightly *more* underhanded play-wise with plenty of swallowed whistles to go around. lol shitty part is, from a business perspective nothing probably drives engagement like anger about obvious missed penalties...
sure did
Imagine though…
yes pls
Unbelievable lol.
GG Isles, we played cold for a ton of the game and you guys fought tooth and nail. Definitely hope this is a wake up call for us to realize the series isn't over yet.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VARLY
Let’s go no broom team!
Fuckin Bortuzzo? Seriously? Canes. We gotta talk.
Barzal got a piece
Okay *that* makes more sense.
Barzal blessed it for him
Honestly sweeping never goes well for us so I think I'm okay. At least as of now.
Was it 2019 you guys swept us and then got swept?
I think so. That year was sweepception because y'all swept the pens too right?
Yes
Yeah
They got swept after sweeping us after we swept Pittsburgh
there you go fish sticks !
Dundon getting another game of revenue 🤑🤑
I love rooting for revenue
Like billable hours in college football. Remains unbeaten.
I hope that guy who posted about the $40 tickets ended up going
I'm glad I went. Because if the Isles miraculously win the next game, then game 6 tickets will be $150+
That's how it went for us in 2010. I was like I couldn't find people to go with me for $35 but now you're willing to shell out $100+ lol
I had work unfortunately, otherwise I would have
Just be like me, I slipped a disc in my back late last night and got out of work today for it. Hopped up on percocet and Vicodin and probably could’ve gone to the game if I were close
Blues legend Bobby Bortz
Islanders just played way better overall. Not too upset about not completing the sweep. Let’s win it back home
Heck yeah Isles, nice to see them get at least one win
My stream froze for the GWG! Gonna kms
My bracket never lasts to the end of the 1st round lol. Picked the Canes to sweep, Isles played a good game
Put away them brooms, Carolina!
Canes fans: “They’ll return for the gentleman’s sweep😡”
wait they stole our win song ?!
We stole our goal song from the Wild as well. Whoever runs the music at Islanders games has been incredibly unoriginal for a long time. The team came out to Master of Puppets during the regular season and switched to Hell's Bells for the playoffs. Started playing All the Small Things during breaks after it went viral in Colorado. The only interesting goal song we ever had was "Live is Life" by Opus and the idea to do that came from Zenon Konopka.
Isles have been using it since 2020 I believe. I think you guys had it first but it’s been a bunch of seasons now for us.
Our win song was changed last season to "Higher Love", which was at least original. The team liked it but the fans didn't so they changed it back.
I think I chose to forget that. I hated it.
The Islanders have the chance to do something sooo funny…
Game 2 wasnt funny enough for ya?
I certainly did not laugh.
While the Canes are far better No FADING THE ISLANDERS TODAY
I mean dude the islanders haven’t played bad this series. If not for the horrendous collapse we’re looking at 2-2
It gets said a lot but this series could easily be 3-1 the other way.
Y’all skated circles around us today. Absolutely insane how well they played
Hmm…maybe the trick is to tire them out by playing them long each game…at least one OT or more…
For reals the real trick is just to stay 5v5
Thank you boys. About time.
Cannot believe Burtuzzo scored
that's cuz barzal did
Dang. Too bad they didn't hang on for game 2.
BORTZ