The Test Ahead

Even though the Filthy Flyers are having a bad season they always play the Islanders good. Just a few weeks ago they made the Isles look like a peewee hockey team so I was a little nervous going into last nights matchup. I turned the game on a few minutes late but just in time to see the Flyers go up 1-0. The Isles are not a great 3rd period team hence the blown leads in previous games so I wasn't feeling good about being down 2-0, thank God tho for John Tavares as he put the team down by 1 with a min left in the 2nd. They fought hard and showed a lot of heart in the 3rd period though, something that the team was missing the previous 5 seasons. Colin McDonald who was involved in a little scrap earlier in the game with Scott Hartnell tied the game for the Isles in the 3rd and then scored again to put them ahead 3-2. Then as time winded down a questionable delay of game call against Frans Nielsen put them down a man, and with the Flyers pulled goalie it was a 6 on 4. History told me that the Flyers would tie the game and of course with 30 seconds left history smacked me right in the face. The Isles had a few chances in ot with a man advantage but with no success so it was onto a shoot out. The Isles played catch up most of the game and were forced to do so in the shoot out with Claude Giroux scoring first. Brad Boyes answered though with a nice shot top shelf and a save by Nabby led to Josh Bailey scoring the game winner, a great win vs a team that embarrassed us weeks earlier in the Coli.

Now with 3 wins in a row tomorrow the Islanders face a huge test, the Penguins. With newly acquired faces including Brenden Morrow and Jarome Iginlia it will be tough vs an already stacked team who hasn't lost since February 28th in Carolina. Since then they are winners of 14 in a row including 2 victories over the Isles. However tomorrow is a new day and as the late Owen Hart says "enough is enough and it's time for a change", a Penguins loss would be great, even better will be the Islanders beating them.