Breaking the rule

I always tell myself never to blog during a game because it just brings bad luck but I think I am safe right now.

It's 5-1 Atlanta--you know, the worst team in the league--and the Isles have just hit successive posts (Streit and Comeau) and then watched the freaking Thrashers score their fifth goal. Of course there was lots of room for a two on one after Comeau hit the post so it was easy for the Thrashers. Ugh.

Ever notice how the MSG+ cameras always switch to Scott Gordon after the Isles give up a goal or take a penalty and he looks like he just caught someone kicking his dog? Trust me, if you haven't been watching, Scott Gordon must have a mush team of Iditarod doggies that are getting a hoofing tonight.

Big news of late is that Jeff Tambellini has accepted a conditioning assignment to Bridgeport to try and get his game together. See, with a one-way contract, the player has to accept the assignment to the AHL because otherwise the team would have to hope to get the guy through waivers and I am pretty sure some other team may want a crack at solving the Tambellini Rubik's Cube. We sure haven't been able to do anything with it.

And that is how Blake Comeau has made it back to the NHL. Actually, to be honest, the kid has looked pretty good in his first NHL game of the season. He's been in good position and had a heck of a pass out of the corner on a Trent Hunter scoring attempt. Good for Blake.

The reality is that the Islanders Youth Experience (TM) has been derailed with the injuries to Kyle Okposo and Frans Nielsen. Okposo looked like he was getting his legs under him right before he went down with the arm and/or hand injury and Frans was getting seriously shifty before Mike Mottau decided to rattle his dentistry.

Monday night the Isles are going to Toronto to visit problem child Jason Blake and the rest of the Maple Leafs.