Episode Matt Stajan (413): Team of the Week: New York Islanders

Jan 29, 2023

As the bye weeks start leading up to the All Star game, the Oilers are running hot and the Leafs are without Auston Matthews for at least 3 weeks. Lots of teams seem to be on a mission to get Connor Bedard but Gary Bettman says nobody tanks....hmm

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Banter

Title Player 

Matt Stajan-> 01-02 Belleville Bulls Steve Cooke -> Matt’s brother

Matt Stajan -> 01-02 Bulls Jason Spezza -> 03-04 Senators Rob Ray

Matt Stajan -> 03-04 Leafs Nik Antropov -> 09-10 Thrashers Mark Dobson

Matt Stajan -> 09-10 Flames Olli Jokinen -> 99-00 Islanders kenny Jonsson _. 02-03 Islanders Eric Manlow

Feedback - Howard Hargrove

News

Jets struggling - Bowness pissed during press conference after losing 4-0 to Flyers

Matt Berlin - Emergency Back up for Edmonton gets 2 and a half minutes of playing time vs Chicago.

Gary Bettman on tanking:

“Nobody tanks because we have a weighted lottery," 

"You’re not going to lose games to increase your odds by a couple of percentage points. That’s silly. And frankly, suggesting tanking, I believe, is inconsistent with the professionalism that our players and our coaches have. Nobody tanks."

Friedman - NHLPA expected to announce new Exec Director - maybe as early as All Star Weekend

Mike Gillis one of candidates

Bally’s declaring bankruptcy - significant revenue shortfall - how will it affect the cap?

Leafs

Matthews - on LTIR due to knee sprain

Does it matter if Lightning catch them?

Bye Week Feb 2-9

Oilers

8 game points streak going into All Star

McDavid at 92 points in 50 games - 150 pt pace

Draisaitl nursing an injury? 

Lots of trade speculation - Friedman says Bjugstad is possible

Oilers start Bye Week - Off until Feb 7

Binnington getting into scrum with Avs - Georgiev did the skate to centre ice

Does the NHL have a Pride night problem? 

Rangers advertised they would wear pride-themed warm ups and then didn’t. 

Flyers / Provorov

Guess the 5th

I have a pop quiz for you after Guess the 5th

Team of the Week

New York Islanders

25-22-5  55Pts 

6th in Division

2 points out of Wildcard spot (Penguins have 3 games in hand)

CF% 49 (23) SF% 49.72 (18) GF% 54.1% (8) 

SH% 8.55 (13)  SV% 92.89 (5)

What the hell? 

All Situations SH% 9.3 (23)  SV% .914 (6) 

PP% 15.54 (31)  PK% 83 (4)

Sorokin is #1 but both goalies have been great

Summary - 5 v 5 play overall not great but good results

PP terrible 

Not likely to make playoffs if results come back to actual play

Crazy Stat - 

Hot / Not 

Metro NJD 8-1-1 / CBJ 3-6-1 (now last in league)

Atlantic TBL 8-2-0 / MTL 4-5-1  

Central COL 7-3-0 / ARI 3-6-1 

Pacific EDM 7-1-2 / VGK 2-6-2 - things are tight in Pacific

DOPeS 

Valimaki fine for slash on Max Jones - meh