On day three, Buster, Simon, Daniel, Nordlund and August, went to see New York Islanders play against Montreal Canadiens. This season Islanders is doing very good, they are in the top of the East America part of the Stanley cup. So this was a very important game for them, as they needed the points to stay there. When we first saw the Barclays center our jaws dropped. The arena was the biggest icehockey arena any of us had ever seen.
Its go time!
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Islanders was off to a very bad start. They missed all of their shots and kept making off-sides. Islanders were looking tired and unmotivated while Canadiens looked very motivated and dangerous.
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Bang, one goal, bang two goals. The defense was asleep. Just like Simon who apparantly just “rested his eyes” under the first period of play. BUT then, what we all had been hoping for happened. The gloves were dropped and a fight broke out on the ice between Lee and Folin. It happened so fast, and it was over just as fast. But we were all happy that we had seen a fight.
The rest of first period was a diasaster for Islanders. In the last 5 minutes, one of the playmakers from Islanders was hit with an illegal tackle from a Canadiens player. The player got a two minute penalty, therefore Islanders was now in powerplay, which means that they are 5 on 4, which is a massive advantage. But Islanders attack was stopped by a Canadiens player who quickly passes the puck to a teammate, and the teammate scored to 3-0.
Second period
Islanders looked much better in the second period.
Third period
After 17 seconds into the third period Islanders scorer and the arena erupted, but after a replay the goal was canceled. Then after 6 minutes in the third period Brock Nelson scored the first goal for the islanders and the arena once again erupted. Just 10 minutes later the Canadiens scores again and the fans starts to boo the Islanders players, and just a minute after the Canadiens goal the Islanders scores their second goal, but you could sense it was too little too late to win the game, and right so the Islanders pulled the goalie and the Canadiens scored the last goal of the game. After the last goal we walked out to get the subway before everyone else because the game was decided at that point. The game finished 6-2 with the win to the Canadiens.
Gruesome injury
In the third period New York Islanders player Johnny Boychuk got a gruesome injury when he got hit in the face by Montreal Canadiens player Artturi Lehkonen’ skate blade. Ice hockey players doesn’t normally cry, but you could see he was really in pain because of his twists and turns down on the ice. And to prevent the ice from being covered in blood he was fast to get up and run into the locker room. He was finished for the game.
The match ended 6-2
2e New York 