Blues Beat Deplorable Islanders 2-1

The Blues have scored points in five of their last six games, but most of those point scorings are so-called loser points. The Blues are coming off a 3-2 loss in overtime to the Philadelphia Flyers. This is a game the Islanders should have won, as the Blues are only 6-9-6 on the season.

This game against the Blues was a sluggish one for the Islanders, who appeared tired after their seven-game road trip, which went 6-1. It is a fact that 77.9% of National Hockey League teams in playoff position at American Thanksgiving make the playoffs. Do you think the Islanders will be in a playoff spot at American Thanksgiving?

Blues Beat Islanders 2-1

The Blues are a team the Islanders should have beaten. If they want to be considered one of the best teams in the National Hockey League, they need to win games at home against weak competition. Here is a scoring summary of the game.

In the first period, on the very first shot of the game, Brayden Schenn scored for the Blues. That goal gave them a 1-0 lead. That was how the first period ended. In the second period, the Blues took a 2-0 lead when Pius Suter scored.

That goal gave the Blues a 2-0 lead/. Through the first two periods, there were few shots. It was a sleepy game.In the third period, Anders Lee scored, and the St. Louis lead was cut to 2-1. That is how the game ended.

News and Notes

• Islander Bo Horvat comes into this matchup as the main driver of the Islanders’ offence. He is riding a two-game point streak and has been scoring all season. Horvat continues to set the pace for New York with twenty-five points through twenty-one games. He has fourteen goals and eleven assists thus far. If he continues to play like this, he might make the Canadian Olympic team.
• Tomorrow’s game against the Seattle Kraken marks the quarter point of the season for the Islanders.
• Justin Faulk is hot for the Blues. He just played his 1,000th National Hockey League game. The Blues veteran has eight points in his last ten games, including a two-goal performance in Philadelphia in his previous game. His five goals in November rank first among defensemen. He has six power-play points and forty-six blocked shots. Faulk is playing some of the best hockey of his career.
• The Islanders are on a seven-game homestand. That is a season-long homestand.
• It was Hockey Fights Cancer night on Long Island. Among the highlights were childhood cancer patients dropping the puck to start the game.
• Ilya Sorokin started in goal for the Islanders in this game. He played reasonably well in this game and has played much better since the Islanders replaced their goaltending coach. Rittich will start in goal tomorrow, head coach Patrick Roy said.

Some Blues Notes

• In this game, Jordan Binnington became the all-time team leader in games started at 340, passing Mike Liut (339).
• Robert Thomas leads the team in scoring with 10 assists and 13 points this season.
• Colton Parayko is expected to dress in his 745th career game, passing Brett Hull for sole possession of sixth on the Blues’ all-time franchise list for games played.

Conclusion 

The Islanders are home, finally, though they looked like they were sluggish for their seven-game road trip. This game began a season-long seven-game homestand. The Islanders waited almost the entire game to score, only scoring with three minutes left in the game after they pulled their goaltender. This was another game where most of the action happened in the last four minutes. The Islanders had a game-tying goal disallowed with about three minutes to go.