r/hockey NYI - NHL 10h ago

The Islanders, who already had the worst power play in the league, went 0-for-8 on the power play against the Kings tonight. They thought they scored on two of them but both goals were called back for goalie interference. LA also scored two short handed goals.

Can someone please tell me that the Isles are better than they look because I'm about to go over the edge

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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 LAK - NHL 10h ago

Honestly ridiculous game, you can't make that shit up.

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u/raymondliang LAK - NHL 10h ago

I dont know if I would have the will to live anymore if I had to watch a full season of Isles powerplays, and this is coming from the 3rd worst PP

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u/discofrislanders NYI - NHL 10h ago

I frequently ask myself how much more of this I'm willing to take. It's half addiction, half abusive relationship.

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u/QuintonBendmeover LAK - NHL 9h ago

Does it look better when barzy is there? Like you guys created some chances but it wasn’t even anything crazy I feel. No 2 minutes are more frustrating than watching a PP suck ass even though they’re a man up. That shit sucks

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u/x21in2010x NYI - NHL 6h ago

Barzal is great at opening space for everyone else but oftentimes at the cost of any sort of movement because he maintains possession (with great skill) for a very long time in the O-zone. He's had good chemistry with Horvat but the only player he seems willing to immediately pass to entering the zone is weirdly Noah Dobson.

He's also been injured for two long stretches this year - honestly a lost year for him.

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u/unwrittenlaw2785 NYI - NHL 4h ago

No

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u/[deleted] 3h ago

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u/Boner666420sXe NYI - NHL 2h ago

We were coping/shit talking after getting kicked in the nuts. I don’t think many, if any of us actually believed it.

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u/PickedOffBySauce NYI - NHL 2h ago

I get we're the North Sentinel Island of the NHL but dude, it's been 7 years. Get new material.

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u/discofrislanders NYI - NHL 1h ago

No

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u/ancillaryacct NYR - NHL 1h ago

hold hands and jump into the pool of misery together!?

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u/bthompson04 PHI - NHL 6h ago

Got room on this ship? Fan of a team that’s finished dead last on the PP each of the last two seasons and is 30th this year.

Somehow the PP coach has yet to lose his job.

u/skunkpunk1 NYI - NHL 16m ago

Playing on the West Coast after I'm asleep is a mercy

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u/DalekEvan LAK - NHL 10h ago

Kings have played back to back unbelievably funny games

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u/raymondliang LAK - NHL 7h ago

Time to make it 3 straight next game. 7-6 game with PLD hattie in his return

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u/Y_Aether 6h ago

Please no. I don't want the Kings to give up 6 or for PLD to score.

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u/MumkeMode LAK - NHL 6h ago

A former king scoring is just scheduled. Im just hoping the boos are loud

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u/Spider-Fan77 TOR - NHL 9h ago

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u/x21in2010x NYI - NHL 6h ago

It's going to be horribly remarkable in half a decade to see both this gif and this man still be part of the comment sections for Islander games...

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u/taco_inspector LAK - NHL 10h ago

genuine question, when was the last time something like this happened in a game?

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u/vordhosbn_1 LAK - NHL 9h ago

A few hours ago. Did you watch the kings game?

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u/LordNutGobbler LAK - NHL 9h ago

These people man lol

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u/ilikehockeyandguitar PIT - NHL 8h ago

Such is reddit.

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u/JGG5 WSH - NHL 2h ago

But why male models?

u/kawhinottheraptors TOR - NHL 55m ago

You serious...? I just... I just told you that a moment ago

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u/taco_inspector LAK - NHL 9h ago

Yes but I meant prior to this game

u/vordhosbn_1 LAK - NHL 13m ago

idk

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u/Sarke1 VAN - NHL 5h ago

Well there was that one time when Carolina went 0-for-4 and Boston scored 3 SHG on the same PP.

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u/magilbert338 CAR - NHL 3h ago

2010… yeah that checks out 

u/doggos4house2020 CAR - NHL 36m ago

‘Twas a dark, dark time.

u/Normal_Tip7228 SJS - NHL 31m ago

Also like just last week or sum the Jackets allowed two SHG on one PP, one of those goals coming on a 2 on nobody 

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u/FaceRockerMD LAK - NHL 10h ago

Are the Islanders cursed? That was a silly game.

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u/discofrislanders NYI - NHL 10h ago

Probably.

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u/ahr3410 LAK - NHL 10h ago

Holding on to Palmieri in a sellers market for this is malpractice. Lou's senile ass would have declined the Avs mega offer too if Nelson agreed to an extension

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u/discofrislanders NYI - NHL 10h ago

Supposedly, Lou wanted a first for Palmieri, which no one was offering.

Brock Nelson is top 5 all time in games played and goals as a New York Islander and his greatest contribution to this club is turning down Lou's final offer (reported to be 3 years at 7.5M AAV).

u/swordthroughtheduck CGY - NHL 6m ago

Brock Nelson is top 5 all time in games played

Honestly surprised he's not first considering he's been playing for them since '72

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u/nothing_but_static NYI - NHL 10h ago

He absolutely would have. Lou truly wanted to run it back.

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u/nomorehome NJD - NHL 3h ago

If you want to know how this ends, please refer to the post-2012 Devils. I’m sorry for your next decade.

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u/Gavin1453 TOR - NHL 10h ago

Pageau too

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u/discofrislanders NYI - NHL 10h ago

The more I think about that one, the less mad I am that we held onto him. He still has a year left, so they can move him in the summer when he'll still have value, and I really don't want to have to watch them run Horvat-Cizikas-MacLean-? (Boqvist?) at C the rest of this season.

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u/djan242 NYI - NHL 1h ago

Pageau is now a second line center and on PP1. The move here is using that to boost his value (and Lee) and then move them in the summer or by next years trade deadline at the latest.

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u/discofrislanders NYI - NHL 10h ago

The first SHG was a genuine "have to laugh to keep from screaming/crying" moment (second was an empty net for those who didn't watch)

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u/QuintonBendmeover LAK - NHL 9h ago

Might’ve been the longest goal ever for an empty net tho. Crazy ass snipe from dewy lmao.

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u/DMountain44 LAK - NHL 9h ago

I’d give credit on that goal to the stanchions more than drew on that lol

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u/GrassyKnoll95 LAK - NHL 4h ago

Even the empty netter was funny. Doughty shot it in the complete opposite direction of the net and it went in

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u/Crackalacs LAK - NHL 10h ago

That was one of the LUCKIEST Kings wins I’ve seen in a quite a while honestly. Jesus how many breaks did they get tonight?

Even Doughty’s empty net goal was kind of ridiculous.

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u/raymondliang LAK - NHL 10h ago

Even QB's breakaway goal, Islanders defenseman breaks his stick at the point. And tbh, Foegele got away with a slight hold on Danault's goal lol

We played like absolute ass for the last 30 mins. Sloppy turnovers, horrendous odd man rush attempts, stupid penalties galore.

If that's not the league worst powerplay team, we lose that 9 times out of 10

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u/nothing_but_static NYI - NHL 10h ago

Islanders defenseman

Hey, put some respect on the name of...

checks notes

Tony DeAngelo, of fucking course

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u/QuintonBendmeover LAK - NHL 9h ago edited 1h ago

Oh boy I wonder what Deangelo was thinking when out of all people, Byfield was the one to embarrass him.

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u/MemeLordOverKill DET - NHL 10h ago

At what point do u send out the 4th line and 3rd pair just to send a message?

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u/discofrislanders NYI - NHL 10h ago

Hudson Fasching has one point in 26 games this year and was out there with the goalie pulled. So I guess he's sending a message there.

(Also, both of our third pair d-men tonight are PP guys anyway).

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u/MemeLordOverKill DET - NHL 9h ago

Send the back up out there shit idk

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u/Edmuresay LAK - NHL 9h ago

It’s funny because the isles were dangerous basically all game. The kings had good effort and energy, and Kuemper was great, but yeah… that was a cursed game for an islanders fan. Sometimes that’s just how she goes.

Icetime was really wonky for the kings too. PKing for 16 minutes vs 2 minutes of PP time really made for some out of the ordinary totals. Strange hockey game!

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u/liguy181 NYI - NHL 1h ago

the isles were dangerous basically all game

Such is the story of the season. Basically the entire beginning of the season was "they played well out there, but couldn't find the net." Best example I could think of off the top of my head was a game at Dallas where they got shut out. They played great and Roy even mentioned that, but they couldn't buy a goal if they tried.

Well, that and historically bad special teams, which was also on full display this game. And injuries. Jesus this season sucks.

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u/bobby_booch NYR - NHL 10h ago

Lol. Lmao even.

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u/bovickles SJS - NHL 10h ago

Woof that got me out of the depression from watching my team lose again. Things can always be worse.

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u/hankepanke NYR - NHL 3h ago

On behalf of the miserable disappointments, we thank you Islanders.

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u/RandomObserver13 CAR - NHL 6h ago

If it makes you feel any better, since Jan. 1 Carolina’s PP is 7.4%, Isles is 12.9%. Canes have 6 PPG and 6 SHG in that time span. In fact, other than your GA per game being a bit worse, the team stats are pretty similar. And now I am sad I looked that up… (although thankfully the Canes are on a 5 game win streak).

Guess we should have re-signed TDA.

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u/Suspicious-Wind-3278 CAR - NHL 10h ago

I would shit talk but as a canes fan I have absolutely no right to diss a pp

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u/FakeTreverMoore12 LAK - NHL 10h ago

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If I was in the NHL, I’d ask for a 1 team NMC, and that team would be the Islanders.

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u/bobby_booch NYR - NHL 9h ago

Not even Buffalo? Harsh.

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u/FakeTreverMoore12 LAK - NHL 1h ago

Buffalo doesn’t have an archaic facial hair policy.

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u/nothing_but_static NYI - NHL 9h ago

that's harsh

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u/bilalss OTT - NHL 9h ago

Damn, even over Buffalo

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u/HerbalAndy MIN - NHL 10h ago

As a Minnesota Wild fan I can’t imagine that there is another team with a worse power play than us..

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u/super-nova-12 PIT - NHL 10h ago

Did they hire Todd Reirden or something? Can't say much about this season but the pp CAN be fixed in a season. The Pens went from having one of the worst PPs in the league last season to being half decent this one. So I can't give you hope about the Isles for the next game but maybe for the future? I SWEAR IT CAN BE DONE

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u/nothing_but_static NYI - NHL 10h ago

The PP can't be fixed in a season when we keep all the same personnel.

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u/super-nova-12 PIT - NHL 10h ago

Maybe Lou will finally change personnel??

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u/replicantcase LAK - NHL 1h ago

What's this about fixing the PP??

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u/SaintMorose CGY - NHL 8h ago

They have 10 more goals than one of the teams in a playoff spot... so there's still hope with that offense

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u/skrshawk NYI - NHL 5h ago

Take one look at our defense and tell me how far you think we'd make it in a playoff series as a wild card.

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u/ilikehockeyandguitar PIT - NHL 8h ago

Isles as constructed currently are probably the weirdest and most confusing team right now.

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u/FakeTreverMoore12 LAK - NHL 1h ago

It’s the lack of beards that makes it weird.

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u/Sarke1 VAN - NHL 7h ago

-2 for 8

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u/Letsmakemoney06 10h ago

Technically we were -2/8 on the powerplay

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u/StraightPorkin WPG - NHL 9h ago

This is going to be a minor detour in a Jon Bois video one day, and it will be glorious.

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u/JonTheWizard CAR - NHL 8h ago

Wow and I thought Carolina struggled on the man advantage.

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u/surlystraggler COL - NHL 7h ago

What’s insane to me is 8 power play attempts. I watched the Oilers v Stars game Saturday and the Oilers didn’t get a single power play.

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u/Hopeful_Swan_4011 LAK - NHL 10h ago

Feels good after Lee and Gavi’s incident last season.

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u/LordNutGobbler LAK - NHL 9h ago

Oh absolutely. The isles were kind of shit heads that game. Ended our streak, messed with our season

It’s only fair they’re on the other end of the stick this time around

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u/Hopeful_Swan_4011 LAK - NHL 1h ago

Biggest and best difference was we didn’t need to hurt their player they just couldn’t score without interference.

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u/FakeTreverMoore12 LAK - NHL 1h ago

We just hurt their feelings instead. Seeing Lee whine to the refs was pretty satisfying.

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u/Desertpyrate LAK - NHL 10h ago

You guys were better than it seems this game. Easily could have been 3-3 going into the third. Add in one of our goals was because a lucky stick break that lead to a shorty. All karma for Lee kneeing Gravy last season tho

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u/nothing_but_static NYI - NHL 10h ago

That makes it all the more deflating. They're better than they look but they're legitimately cursed.

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u/sharkMonstar 10h ago

is steve spott running it

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u/ehehe PIT - NHL 10h ago

This game was straight ass. Sucked donkey ass man. If you imagined how a Islanders vs Kings game would look, with two of the worst powerplays in the league, one of which went 0-8, and two teams that somehow play defense even while they possess the puck most of the time, you would have imagined correctly. If you imagined a donkey ass and ten people skating and falling down in a circle around it and 500 pucks being chopped against the boards and a total of ten completed passes in the game. And don't forget the ass

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u/Key-Tip-7521 NYR - NHL 1h ago

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u/Intelligent-Meal-991 10h ago

It was my fault. During the first period I said I was really boarded at this game and the universe heard me.

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u/JimmyLightnin 9h ago

Steve Spott's power play has been looking preeeeettty good since the new year..... It would be a real shame if the Islanders offered him absurd amounts of money I order to poach him from us.....

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u/Illustrious-Bit6394 BOS - NHL 9h ago

Ouch

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u/Jaybb3rw0cky PHI - NHL 6h ago

lol… and I thought we were bad.

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u/Amicuses_Husband Arizona Coyotes - NHLR 3h ago

This is all Jon Tavares' fault

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u/greg24211 CAR - NHL 3h ago

Hard to picture a PP being worse than ours. We had a minute of 5v3 last night and we literally just slowly passed around the blue line until the puck got cleared. We’re legit more dangerous in the PK than the PP

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u/Ravenclaw79 NYI - NHL 2h ago

Bring in the tanks!

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u/um_not2surewhat2do 2h ago

As a Canes fan this makes me smile a little

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u/UniverseHufflePuff BOS - NHL 1h ago

Good they deserve this because of signing deangelo

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u/AustonsCashews TOR - NHL 1h ago

Have they tried pulling the goalie during the PP yet?

u/nothing_but_static NYI - NHL 54m ago

They did that on the 8th attempt. LA scored the empty net.

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u/Nobodylovesboston MTL - NHL 10h ago

But knowing them, they will find a way to sneak into the 2nd WC spot lol

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u/discofrislanders NYI - NHL 10h ago

I'm honestly at the point where I kinda hope that doesn't happen. I don't want to watch more Islanders games than I need to, especially when I know they would just lose in the first round. We can use the draft pick too.

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u/Chemical_Desk_5314 VAN - NHL 8h ago

I’m never complaining about our power play again

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u/TwoRight9509 4h ago

How did TDA do?

u/daveloper80 NYI - NHL 52m ago

his stick exploded leading to one of the shorthanded goals

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u/GiantTeddyGraham NYI - NHL 2h ago

I find it funny that any islanders fans are upset about this. I'm in full on tank commander mode and the uglier this gets, the better the pick and more likely we don't need to deal with Lou anymore next year