Islanders 7 Devils 3 FINAL

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3rd Period

A switch at the beggining of the Period putting in Weeks was a showing of how well the Islanders had played. The Devils drew first blood in the period with ellias getting the redirection past McDonald to make it 6-3. The period progressed with little action from the Islanders McDonald was able to keep everything out of the net after the Ellias goal. With the Islanders win pretty much assured Sean Bergenheim was able to get his 3rd goal giving him his first career hat trick with 1 second left on the clock to make the final 7-3 islanders.

2nd Period

With an all Islanders 1st period the Devils came out looking to regain some composer on the second. The devils came out guning. Brian Gionta slamed in a rebound just 29 seconds into the period to make it a 3-1 game. The islanders responded when Bergenheim got one past Brodeur to make it 4-1 and Inggulden got his first NHL point. The Devils came right back when langenbrunner got a rebound past McDonald to make it 4-2. It seemed like the devils were making a comeback playing more aggressivly and capitalizing on the rebounds. The Devils once again failed to kill a penelty when Blake Comeau scored on a perfect pass from beind the net from Josh Bailey. With the Islanders play picking up Seam Bergehiem scored his second goal of the game at 2:26.







1st Period





With an action packed 1st period over the Islanders have made the Devils look like the last place team. Just 1:42 into the period Radek Martinek slamed a goal past the out of position Martin Brodeur. Tim Jackmen charged the Devil net, stoped short spraying ice on Brodeur as he fell backwords and Martinek Slamed the puck into the virtually empty net. Only a few minutes later the Islanders drew Brodeur out of position but failed bury the puck in the net. At 9:45 John Madden was called for high sticking and the devils payed dearly for it. At 8:51 Kyle Okposo got one by Brodeur with the help of Bailey and Nielson. Later Jeff Tambellini scored unassisted on a breakaway at 14:05.The Islanders penelty kill looked sharp killing both penelties and McDonald keep everything the devils threw at him out of the net.