The other way didn't exactly come up aces, so coach Ted Nolan tried a whole new way to approach downtime this week. He and his staff had figured the best use of the week off last week was to do drills that emphasized teaching, which left the team stale and rusty in an 8-3 loss to the Hurricanes Saturday. So, he tried a much more competitive approach in the three practice days leading up to the game against the Lightning tonight at the Coliseum.
One-on-one, two-on-two, four-on-four contests, live overtimes and shootouts--anything to emphasize and sharpen players' competitive natures. Those comprised practice this week. He added more five-on-five work yesterday and left the practice optimistic that the team can be more effective at even strength and not so dependent on power plays.
We'll see how it works tonight against a team that is either ripe or hungry, depending on how you want to look at it. The Lightning got waxed, 6-1, in Newark last night after having lost to the Rangers at the Garden Monday. That contiued a trend for Tampa Bay, which hasn't achieved as much as a single point in its five road games this year (as opposed to being an unbeaten 5-0-1 at home). The Lightning has been successful against the Islanders in recent seasons, no matter what the venue. Nolan said that last season, "They scored three times on the same play."
Tonight will be the first time Ruslan Fedotenko has faced the Lightning since he left for the Islanders as a free agent July 4. He said he will be friends for life with some of the guys on the team because they won a Stanley Cup together. But tonight, he said, "there's no time for being a nice guy."
Comments (4)
^ Will you please IP ban this obsessed moron and make him stop talking to himself on this blog???
WTF is the point of you even doing this blog if all we see every single time we come here is stupid worthless comments from this idiot kid?
Saw an add placed in the paper last year on March 7th 2007 by a guy named Hollweg of the Rangers.
Ad stated the following:
Will be traveling to Long Island on the 8th and I am interested in meeting some swingers. You must like to get hit and roughed up; especially from behind; preferably when you are not looking. I like to finish with a big one on my face.
Later that night Simon said "I thought he meant stick swingers".
Go away troll; your mom is going to know you stayed home today eating Halloween candy while trolling on Newsday when she sees the chocolate finger prints and droul all over her keyboard and monitor.
i hope they come out strong tonight...not playing for almost a week is hard...at least we have 2 games in 3 days.
Cant even think of your own name now, huh?
Jeez... this is so unbelievably dumb.