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Montreal Canadiens Hoodies Authentic , N.Y. — The Detroit Red Wings will be playing on short rest Saturday night. The New York Islanders might be playing with long memories.The two teams will square off for the second straight Saturday when the Islanders host the Red Wings at Nassau Coliseum. It will be the New York’s third game at the Coliseum since it began splitting home contests between Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the Coliseum, where the franchise played from 1972 through the 2014-15 season.Both teams are coming off losses. The Red Wings will be playing the second game of a back-to-back set after falling Friday night to the visiting Ottawa Senators, 4-2. The Islanders last played Wednesday, when they lost to the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 at Barclays Center.Article continues below ...However, there’s a pretty good chance the Islanders will be thinking more about their previous game against the Red Wings than the loss to the Golden Knights.The Islanders (14-12-4) overcame a two-goal, first-period deficit to beat the Red Wings 3-2 at Little Caesars Arena on Dec. 8. The comeback was fueled after Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall delivered a blindside hit to New York captain Anders Lee, who needed eight stitches over his left eyebrow and lip to close his wounds.Normally mild-mannered Islanders center Josh Bailey responded by crashing into Kronwall and fighting with center Dylan Larkin. Later in the game, 34-year-old New York defenseman Johnny Boychuk tussled with Detroit defenseman Jonathan Ericsson.Islanders head coach Barry Trotz told reporters he would leave any further actions up to his players, though he noted
Montreal Canadiens Hats Authentic , “Players have long memories.” Lee seemed to back up that notion.“We’re going to bring it like we always do, and if there needs to be a response or anything like that we’re ready to do it, as (they would) be,” Lee told reporters. “I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s going to carry over, but it was just a week ago, too, I guess.”Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said following Friday night’s game he wasn’t concerned with the possibility that the Islanders might be seeking further retribution. “We’ve got to go win the hockey game. we can’t worry about anything else,” Blashill said. “If they want to worry about extracurricular stuff, then let them worry about it. We’ve got to win a hockey game. We had an opportunity here to win at home and we didn’t win it
Custom Montreal Canadiens Jerseys , so we’ve got to go find a way to win (Saturday).”The Red Wings and Islanders have at least one thing in common: They’re both on the outside looking in on the Eastern Conference playoff picture and in need of a victory Saturday night. Detroit has lost five of seven (2-4-1) while New York has dropped six of eight (2-4-2).Red Wings number one goalie Jimmy Howard started and took the loss Friday, when he made 28 saves, so backup Jonathan Bernier will likely be in net Saturday. Bernier last played Tuesday, when he took the loss and was chased after allowing five goals on just 15 shots over two periods as Detroit fell to the Washington Capitals 6-2.The Islanders haven’t announced a starter yet, but Thomas Greiss would seem to be in line to start after Robin Lehner played the last two games. Greiss hasn’t played since he earned the win against Detroit by recording 23 saves. Bernier is 4-5-3 in 12 career appearances against the Islanders. Greiss is 4-2-1 in nine games against the Red Wings. OTTAWA — To paraphrase Ottawa Senators coach Guy Boucher, some players knock on the door that leads to the NHL and others kick it down.Drake Batherson kicked it down.The Senators planned to give Batherson at least half of a season — if not the entire 2018-19 campaign – in the American Hockey League to prepare for the final step on the ladder. But in his first 13 games as a pro, the 20-year-old, 2017 fourth-round draft pick indicated he’s ready for it now.Article continues below ...Along with seven goals and 13 assists to lead the AHL in scoring, Batherson was coming off a six-point night that earned him the league’s player of the week nod when the Senators decided to give him a promotion.Batherson will make his NHL debut with the Senators (7-8-3) when they host the Detroit Red Wings (8-8-2) at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday night.“He wasn’t just the best rookie in the American league
www.officialpredators.com , he was arguably the best player in the American league, and with very little time to do so,” said Boucher. “I liked him in camp and I thought he had a chance to make our team, but we saw that he wasn’t quite ready. You want to give guys the time they need to develop.”Batherson will be given a chance to succeed at this level as Boucher has him on a line with Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel, two of the club’s top scoring forwards.“Every day was about just trying to come in and be a consistent player, working on my game,” Batherson said of the AHL. “You get a lot of skill development down there and it helped me a lot.”Craig Anderson will be making his 17th appearance in the Senators’ net as the team tries to rebound from a 5-1 loss Sunday in Florida. Veteran center Zack Smith should help an Ottawa team that has struggled all season defensively as he returns from missing nine games with a facial bone fracture.After a sluggish start, the Red Wings have been on a tear, winning four straight and seven of their last eight games. The run has been unexpected of a team that
Nashville Predators T-Shirts Authentic , like Ottawa, is in rebuild mode.“It’s not that we’ve come out of any of these games thinking that, ‘Wow, we played our best,'” veteran center Frans Nielsen told the Detroit Free Press. “But we’ve been able to find ways to put ourselves back in the standings, and it’s been fun.”The Red Wings had a tough schedule early on but things have lightened up on that front. Six different players accounted for an unanswered scoring spree through the first 47 minutes when they dumped Arizona 6-1 on Tuesday in Detroit.“When we started the way we started, it was paramount that we took care of business at home,” coach Jeff Blashill told the Free Press. “Good for our guys to have done that and dug us out of a bit of a hole.”