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The New York Islanders faced the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden for the 1975
NHL Playoffs. Game 3 of the preliminary rounds of the Stanley Cup Playoffs took place on
April 11, 1975. The Islanders and Rangers finished evenly matched during the regular
season, finishing in second and third place in the Patrick Division. The Rangers had qualified
for the playoffs for several years but rarely were able to get past the semifinals. 1975
was the first time the Islanders had entered the playoffs, having just entered into the
league as a new expansion team in 1972. The best of three series was tied at one game
apiece and this is the audio from Game 3 taken from the WMCA New York Radio broadcast featuring
announcers Dom Valentino and Jim Garvey.
The New York Islanders and the New York Rangers hook up in Game 3 in the first series of the
Stanley Cup. Each team surprisingly enough has won on the other's eyes. The Islanders
coming through on Tuesday night, 3-2 and last night at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island
it was the New York Rangers overwhelming the New York Islanders by the final count of 8-3.
Last night's games featured a record total of 50 penalties, surpassing the previous high
of 43 penalties set last year in a series featuring the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia
Flyers. Last night's game has been called everything from a Pier 6 brawl to a tremendous
hockey exciting hockey game. Take your pick, the game's a matter of the record and now
it's Game 3 tonight, both teams looking for the win that will catapult them into the next
round of the Stanley Cup. Coming up my interview, my guest on Islander Highlights, Bill Torrey,
the General Manager of the New York Islanders. Bill will be back when we return in a moment.
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of the world. This is Jim Garvey from Madison Square Garden and my guest tonight is the
General Manager of the New York Islanders, Bill Turing. Bill, it's been a long season.
We had you early, we had you in the middle, and here we are down at the end and it's a
pleasure to welcome you again. Well Jim, I'm hoping quite frankly it isn't the end. It's
towards the end, no question about that, but hopefully we'll be around for a while yet.
Although we've got a big hurdle to climb tonight. Well you know Bill, when it's a one game winner
take all series, I think that past records and past games sort of go out the window and
put the chips for where they may. The hot club, the hot goldshead that comes out ahead
and I think that most clubs have things going for them and things going against them and
the way I see it, it could go either way. Well, I don't think there's any question that
a one game series, anything can happen at any time and I think that's the way the players
have to look at it. I think obviously a team with experience and who's been through this
kind of thing before may have an edge, but by the sense of hoping sometimes young legs
can give you an edge too, so it's going to be an interesting evening. Let's look at the
series to date Bill, I think neither one of the games have really gone according to form.
The Rangers took a two goal lead into the first game, into the third period and for
all intents and purposes I think the Garden Crowd and maybe some of the Rangers hockey
players felt that the game was bagged and then one, two, three, the Islanders came out
with a win and I think that surprised a lot of people. Well again, I think that's a question
that our young legs gave us a little bit of an edge there in the third period and again
hopefully even tonight that's something to keep in mind. I think that certainly we did
not play as we had hoped we would through the middle part of the game. We played a pretty
good first period the other night here in the Garden and we killed off a little bit
in the second period and then we came back pretty strong in the third period. So whether
that's any indication of what will happen tonight, who knows. You know Billy, Rangers
of the club seem to do very well in unsettled situations of man ups, man downs, two men
ups, perhaps a little bit more explosive on the power play than we've been and yet you
really don't want our club to go out and sit back, they've got to go out and hit so you're
taking a calculated risk aren't you? I'd have to say when you get the officiating we got
last night you certainly take a risk. I would hope under more normal circumstances that
it's not really a risk. We are an aggressive team, a physical team, we like to play the
man and we don't see why that's something that should be penalized. I don't know a lot
of the other things there, it's another matter but I think that there's no question that
there are Rangers when they're allowed to move the puck, pass the puck the way they
are capable of doing it, when you let them do that you're asking for trouble, there's
no two ways about it. Well I rode up in the elevator with Frank Gutvari and we had an animated
discussion about the officiating last night, you know being an official myself and with
Ross and having worked some pretty big ball games, you know you always try to be a little
bit sensitive toward the plight of the official but as I told Frank last night, I think it
was the first time this season that I'd really lost my cool a little bit on the air and was
a little bit loud in my denunciation of Wicks. I felt he took the game away from the club
early in the first period and what he did thereafter really wasn't essential because
once he got out of that first period it was just about game time. But here we go in the
game three tonight and there are questions below, who will be in goal for the Islanders
and who will be in goal for the Rangers? You know walking up with Jill Villamuele last
night after the game, he was in a great deal of pain and I had some doubts that Jill would
be able to go and I guess for yourself really at this point in time, we're now about an
hour and a half before game time and even you are not really sure I guess at this point
who might be in goal. Well I'm going downstairs right after I get to talking with you to sit
down with Al and discuss it. I think we've pretty well made up our minds but it's to
make the final decision we decided we'd just let it go. The goalkeepers, we've talked to
them, they know what the circumstances are and so we'll talk about it downstairs and
come up with the right decision. I don't know what the Rangers are going to do as far as
we're concerned, we don't really care. We've got to go out and play our game and do the
things that we do best, better than they do in order to get ourselves the edge and last
night is one of those things. I think actually in looking at our young team and obviously
this is a big unknown factor in the Islanders, there was more pressure on our kids last night
really than there was in the opening game here and then in the way there is tonight.
They were very uptight all day yesterday and there wasn't anything we could really do.
They got a bad game out of their system last night and hopefully we'll start it all clean
tonight when the bell goes. I think the Islanders bill have gotten a great deal of mileage during
this playoff out of the fourth line with Lauren Henning, Joel Podvan and Billy McNoin. Well
I'll probably go with the four lines again tonight as the players have to be tired coming
off that three hour slugfest last night. Well I think there's no question that the line
has played well. It's a line we put together towards the tail end of the season to give
ourselves a little bit of a rest because really we've been placed in a situation down through
the last few weeks where all of our games were kind of playoff type games against key
teams in high pressure situations and it allowed Al to have a little bit more flexibility when
we're killing off the penalties. It allowed him to have an extra line there just in case
of a foul and they have played very well. Joel Podvan particularly moving up from defense
to right wing stepped in there and done an excellent job and got two goals here in the
playoffs and both of them really good goals you might say. Bill, the new additions to
the club, Jude Drone and JP Parisi, we've spoken of them before. They've made great
contributions. I of course in reading today's paper had a laugh when I read how the Ratel
Gilbert-Vickers line had outplayed the Drone line because as I remember most of the goals
scored by that line came on the power play with Drone not even in the game. So I think
sometimes the final statistics can be a little bit misleading but Jude Drone has certainly
been an addition to the club that you couldn't minimize his value could you? No there's no
question about it. They fit very well. It's always the key part when you make a trade
to know when you get a good player on the ice hopefully but you've got to relocate
them and resituate them and both he and JP fit in well. They like Long Island and we're
very pleased with them and we feel they want to make a contribution to this hockey club
for some time. Yes I did. It was brought to my attention today the article in the paper
and well that's one man's opinion and I don't think it's a question that that line
has not played well. I just think it's a question that John Ratel has had an outstanding two
games and he's going to be a tough man to stop tonight but we're going to have to do
it that's all. Well he certainly is and Bill as we wind down perhaps maybe one series left
to go maybe two let's hope but I think that at this time it might be the last opportunity
for me to speak with you I think speaking for all Islander fans let me commend you of
course you representing Roy Ball and Al Arbor and every hockey player on the club for putting
together what I think is a more than representative hockey club. I think the thrills the enjoyment
that the fans at the Coliseum have had this year are directly attributable to a lot of
the things that you've done. I think it would have been easy for you to sit Pat and take
a young club and bring it along slowly but I think you you really had the fans that interest
the pot when you went out and got a couple of veteran players and I think you've done
a masterful job of building a club that's going to be a club that's going to be around
for a long time. Bill thanks for sitting in with us and the best of luck to you. Thanks
Jimmy. Still a long spring. New York Islander Action is next. We'll be back in a moment.
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The mystery has been solved tonight and goal for the island is it will be Billy Smith as
Al Arbor and Bill Torrey Dickard right up into game time between Bresch and Smith and controversy
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Blackhawks has the Bruins shut out three nothing after two periods so there's an upset. Well
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Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
Needless to say, we've got a standing room only crowd, and the two teams have played seven times this season, making eight times this season, including two playoff games.
The Rangers have won four, the Islanders three. There was one tie back here on October 30th, one to one.
And now it's my pleasure to introduce Jim Garvey. Jim, what do you think?
Well, Tom, it's a big game, certainly for both clubs. I left the building last night with Jill Villamur, who was just outstanding in the Ranger net, and Jill was hurting, so we'll have to see how he goes tonight.
By the way, in the second period, the Chicago Blackcocks lead the Boston Bruins 3-0 at the Boston Garden.
The draw into the Rangers' end. Ron Harris battling for the puck. The battle continues.
And the puck is jammed against the board. So we're going to have a faceoff coming up to the right of Gilles Villamur.
Nick Beverly, Dom, for the Rangers, has a tender ankle, which he was hit with a shot with earlier in the series, and Ron Harris appears to be teaming up with Brad Park right off the bat tonight.
We'll give you those possibilities we were talking about.
The puck is in the corner to the right of Villamur. Villamur out to center right, stopped by Lewis.
Lewis to Druhan. Jude on the right wing to Westfall off his stick. It's in the corner to the left of Villamur.
Wacked around the board by Steve Vickers. Battle for the puck. Centering pass, nobody there.
And it is taken for the Rangers by Vickers. He's out, left wing, center right. On the right wing, his pass is off the mark.
Westfall collects, trying to bring it back. Flags it out to center right. Puck taken by Ron Harris, process it goes to Vickers, right back to Brad Park.
To Gilbert, down the middle, knocked off his stick by Lewis, collected by Parisi. Parisi runs it to Harris, and the puck goes into the Ranger end.
Brad Park has the puck. Out to his own line to Jean Rattelle. Rattelle for Gilbert ahead of him. Race for the puck.
Lewis, Gilbert, Lewis has it. Lewis trying to bring it out. Moves it around the board, and the puck is stolen.
It goes in the slot, knocked away by Marshall. Kept in by Gilbert. Lewis goes to his right to Marshall.
Marshall coming out, right wing. On the left it goes to Lewis. Lewis lifts it in the corner to the left of Villamur.
The Islanders change in the fly. At 18-20 to go here in the first period, nothing, nothing.
Kachouk to center right, so the puck is fired in the Islanders end by Fairburn.
Lewis to center right. Sanderson after it. Knocked away by Denny Puckman to Bobby Bourne. Bourne knocked down by Marat.
And back comes Kachouk, and Bourne goes after him. Sanderson sends it in the Islanders end. Billy Smith knocks it away.
Dennis Puckman off the board to Bourne. Bourne center right. He can fly. Drop pass. Gilly shoots, deflected wide.
And the battle for the rebound. On the puck now for the Rangers is Greschner. Greschner trying to come out.
Gilles goes after him, ties him up, gets the puck to center right. Or Kachouk.
Collected in one motion by Fairburn down the middle, right wing. Bourne intercepts and gets it out to center right.
Gilly to the Rangers line. Knocked away by Marat. Marat on the puck for the Rangers. Fires it in the corner to the left of Billy Smith.
Billy Smith stops it, leasing him back. The puck is collected by Jerry Hart. Hart has it up on the right wing. It goes to Billy Harris.
He's out, center right. Billy center right, so the left wing knocked away. Back on the left wing. It's outside.
And Marat hits Harris and knocks him right under the Ranger bench. And that's going to start something.
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Alright, the draw outside the Ranger line. On the draw, battle for. Goes to Harris. Harris to his left to park.
Park right back to Harris. Harris coming out to Stemkowski up on the right wing. Knocked away by Howitt.
To Brad Park at his own line. Park off the skate of Urban. He goes down. Harris has it to Park.
Park right back to Stemkowski down the middle. The shot off the stick of Lewis.
And Marshall sends it around the boards to Howitt. Gary coming out. Left wing.
Does St. Laurent do Nystrom? Nystrom fakes the shot. Back down the middle looking for St. Laurent.
Knocked into the corner. A battle for the puck. Nystrom going after it.
Sticks flying. Everybody digging for the puck. Taken by Marshall. Down the middle to St. Laurent.
He can't get the shot off. St. Laurent and Butler going at it. And Gary Howitt knocks Park down.
The puck is taken by Harris. Harris with it. Shoots at the Islanders end. It's Carom's in front.
Urban shoots. Great save by Billy Smith. What a save by Smith.
The quick left handed glove came up with a save. Face off to the right of Billy Smith and the Islanders end.
Well the first tester of the night that goes to Billy Smith and the Islanders. Billy standing his ground as Urban walked right in alone.
And Billy pucked that one out of the air. A great left hand grab.
And Tom I know Islander fans breathe a sigh of relief because the first goal is oh so important and Urban looked like he was in cold.
Incidentally Phil Rizzuto here tonight with us. Former Yankee great who enjoys hockey very much.
He'll be on with Jim. Wins second and third period. Greschner from deep out front. The shot is knocked away by Smith.
The puck is loose. Trying to go back to the right point was Gilbert and it goes all the way to the Rangers line.
Marat with it. Up to Rattel ahead of him. Rattel had a goal and three assists last night.
So did Vickers. They were the big scorers. They played very well.
Jerry Hart with a puck to Drew on up on the right wing. Denny Pott man right back to Jude.
Jude coming across the line. Knocked off his stick. Battle for the puck.
Parisi's got it. JP hit it to the corner. Drew on it. Jude left point. Hart shooting. It's blocked.
And the puck is taken by Rattel. He wheels along the right wing board. Goes cross ice to his left.
Taken right there by Marat. Marat to Joe Bear. Joe Bear down the middle. Down the middle to Rattel.
The shot. Great save by Billy Smith. What a save. Parisi to Drew on. Drew on coming down the middle.
Jude right wing. West ball shoot. Save Villamur. And the puck is taken by Vickers.
Dave Vickers loses out front. The shot. The save by Villamur in a beauty. Drew on with a great shot.
And a great save by Villamur. Both co-tenders have done well so far tonight.
Islanders changing the fly. To center ice to Bourne. Bourne trying to come across the line. Right wing.
He does. Loses to Vickers. It's in the slot. Loose. Puck deflects to center ice.
Taken right there by Rattel. Down the middle. Drop pass Vickers. Goes to the right wing. Loses the puck.
Heart cracked into him. Centering pass knocked away. Kept in by part. The shot wide. Gillies out to the puck.
Cleans it out to center ice. 14-25 to go. In the first period. Nothing, nothing.
Kachuk down the middle. Goes to the right wing. And Jerry Hart rides him out of the board.
Hart goes after him. Kachuk out front. Couldn't get the shot out. Sanderson shoots. Blocked by Hart.
And Dennis Plotkman clears it. It goes up all length of the ice. It no doubt will be icing.
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All set now. A few possibilities now. Boston wins and Los Angeles wins.
The Islanders or the Rangers play Buffalo. Chicago wins and Los Angeles wins.
And one of the New York teams plays Montreal. Boston wins and Toronto wins.
And a New York team plays Montreal. Chicago wins and Toronto wins. It's a New York team at Pittsburgh.
On the draw. Taken by Kachuk down the middle for Fairburn. Knocks away.
And the puck is taken by Gillies where the good movie comes out.
Center right. Clark stops. The shot. Why? Caram and Villamur knocks it into the corner to his right.
Ron Harris has it. Harris coming out of the right wing. Harris bringing it out.
The center right then goes to Kachuk. Back to Harris. Harris shoots.
Great save by Billy Smith. Man, what a save Billy Smith has made tonight, Jim.
Well, Don, we have not yet really had a great goaltending game here with both goaltenders and Sparkles.
And I think this may be the game. Both Gillie Villamur and the Nets for the Rangers and Billy Smith and Nets for the Islanders
have really come up big here in the first period. Gloved hand grabs by both goaltenders. Smith in particular has really sparkled.
A freewheeling game up in Boston after two Chicago League 5-3.
On the draw. Lewis around the board. Seborn trying to get it out. Bob having trouble.
Puck is loose. Back to the right point. Harris can't keep it in. Gillies. Harris.
And Harris is able to move Gillies out of the way. The puck is taken by Park. Park fighting with Burt Marshall.
Marshall sends it to the Rangers then. Villamur now stops the puck. Harris has it. Ron Harris for the Rangers. Leaves it for Kachuk.
He lost it as Howard goes after him. Now Harris has it. The center right. Burt Marshall takes it.
On the right wing knocked down by Don LaRonde. Puck is still loose. Taken by Walt Kachuk. Up on the right wing.
Good check on Fairburn. And the puck is sent into the Islanders then. Stopped there by Marshall to Don LaRonde.
Back tender. And the puck is in the corner of the right of Villamur and we're going to have a face out of that point. It's jammed.
Well Gary Howitt and Pete Sinkowski start to do a little pushing and shoving. This game really hasn't resembled last night's game at all.
It's been end to end action. It's been good hockey and the officials are in quickly to separate them.
And Andres Salarón showed us a nice move there as he peeked a little bit, put the puck over on the backhand and hit the outside of the bar.
But it was a good move by Andres. Gill Villamur played the angle well and with 12.33 to go in the first period, Dom, we still have no score.
Ready to go now. The draw to the right of Villamur. And Salarón leaves. It'll be nice room on the draw.
Greshner's got it. Greshner with a puck goes cross-ice to his left. To Marat to Sinkowski center-right.
On the right wing for Fairburn. The back pass is loose. Taken by Urban. Urban ridden into the board.
And a penalty coming up now. Should be on Urban. Let's get the call. Let's see who it's called on because Urban went after Howitz.
And it's going to be on him. And Bruce Hood was standing right there, makes the call. And the official time is 7.46 of the first period.
Cat Urban goes out now for two minutes. For roughing. Well after last night, you know, you hold your breath a little bit when that hand goes up.
But as Dom called it, Urban was roughing Gary Howitz and Howitz holding his composure really didn't retaliate there.
So Urban gets the two minutes and the Islanders get the first power play opportunity of the hockey game.
You have to hold your breath with Gary. Gary hasn't held back very many times this year but Tom with the big money on the line tonight with everything riding on this game, everybody will be on their best behavior.
Well it's going to, I hope it's a real good game. And the best team will end up winning.
Sondler on across the line, left wing, the shot, glove by Villamur. Villamur sends it to the corner to the right.
Ron Harris after it, digging in there, Sondler on left point, Jenny Potvan shoots, deflection attempt goes wide. Butler has it, trying to get it out.
Dennis again, shooting, dark ride, it's skipped wider than that. And the puck is battled for. Sean Potvan, the nice room.
And Villamur moves it in the corner. Howitz got it. Gary trying to center it. He does but Clark is there, lost it in the slot, cleared.
Could be a breakaway, Smith out of the net, knocks it away from Butler. No goal tender. The shot, Dennis Potvan gets back and blocks it.
Dennis up on the left wing, Sondler on, Andre across the line, left wing, quick shot wide, Caram, nice room on the right wing with it.
Back to the right point, Sean Potvan shoots it, goes up over the net. The Islander is now pressing and Ron Harris cleared.
And the puck goes into the Islander's end. We're under 50 seconds to go on the pedaling out of urban. 45 seconds, Islander starts back on the power play.
John Potvan to Jude Ruins, Jude with the puck, to John Potvan, shoots it in the Rangers end. It's in back of the net. Villamur leaves it right there.
Greshner fires it around the boards. Westfall keeps it in. Greshner again has it, sends it around the boards.
And it is cleared out to center right, racing for it, Dennis Potvan and Fairburn. Dennis with a great move and comes right back.
Great move by Dennis, down the middle, right wing, goes, drawing the shot, up over the net. Trying to keep it in, Parisi, JP does.
JP left point, Dennis, thick back, the shot, blocks, the shot, blocks again. Parisi's got it. Parisi on that right wing, again to Dennis, again the shot.
It's blocked. Greshner's got it. Both teams are so strength. Three on two, Greshner and a lot of time in the Rangers.
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The Islanders and the Rangers, nothing, nothing here at Madison Square Garden. And on the Seventh Avenue side, we've got Villamur.
And on the Eighth Avenue side is Billy Smith. Islanders moving from left to right. On the puck now,
Don LaRont across the line right wing. Andre loses to Rattel. The puck is loose. On it now is Lewis.
Lewis right back to Howard. Gary to Nystrom trying to get the shot out of he can't. And Park has the puck for the Rangers.
Park coming back. And he's tied up by Nystrom. Good play. Lewis to Don LaRont. He tips it to the Rangers line.
And we got an offside pass. We're going to have a faceoff between the left faceoff circle and the Islanders line.
Nothing, nothing. 9.45 to go first period.
Well it's evident that Al Arbor and Bill Torrey got together with the New York Islanders and told them they're going to play positional hockey tonight.
No more running around wildly. The Islanders are back to playing their game. And when the Islanders are on their game,
it makes for a better night for your goaltender. He's protected more. The Islander defensemen, the forwards are forechecking and back checking.
The Islanders are out to play their game tonight. The puck is at center right. Taken right there by Rod Gilbear.
Gilbear with it. Gilbear has the puck. Tends it in the Islanders and Lewis after it dies.
And back into that, Ritell comes in after him to Druin. Jude with the puck across the mouth of the goal to Marshall.
Burt now wheels around. The Rangers forechecking. Cross-ized Lewis.
Lewis with a good move but Druin is behind him. West ball trying to center the Rangers in.
Stolen by Vickers down the middle to Ritell. Knocked away by Lewis. And Druin had the puck, lost it.
Druin's pass intercepted Vickers. The shot and it is glove drop smothered by Billy Smith.
Face-off coming up on a very, very risky play as an errant pass went right on the stick of Vickers.
Face-off to the right of Billy Smith. Well the Islanders have been clearing the puck by trying to hit a center, breaking down the middle.
In that case, Jude Druin took a blind pass and attempted to flip it up the middle and there was nobody there but a Ranger in a white jersey.
And almost a giveaway there deep in your own zone. It could have been disastrous but Billy Smith was up to it and smothered the rebound.
Ready now for the draw.
Centering pass is taken by Gillies one-on-one with Greshner.
Gillies coming in. The shot knocked down, puck loose and it is cleared away by Kachuk.
Kachuk to center right to Fairburn. Here comes, follows along. The shot is fair to the beauty.
Billy Smith with another great save. The Rangers with another breakaway.
And Barat from the red line shoots it to the corner. The left of Billy Smith is offside.
And we've got a face-off coming up and again Billy Smith came way up.
When Billy's coming way up, standing up, cutting the angle down, he's unbeatable, Jim.
Well, the Rangers are making use of the long pass and they're head manning that puck and they're setting up two-on-ones and three-on-twos.
The Rangers have been trying to beat Billy with longer shots. Now I look for them to kind of come in, try to deke him and skate around him because Billy is coming out.
He's cutting down the angle. He's doing what he has to do. But you can't keep giving them these long passes because pretty soon they're going to hurt you.
All set now for the draw. Billy Harris and Walt Kachuk. It goes to the Islanders line. Jerry Hart on it.
His pass for Bourne is intercepted by Polis to Gresher down the middle. The shot caught in the midsection by Billy Smith.
And again we've got a face-off coming up to the left of Billy Smith and the New York Islanders end.
Nothing, nothing. 8.24 to go. First period.
Tom, when you think about pressure and we know there's pressure on both clubs, you wonder whether it's the young club having the pressure on them or the veteran club, whom everybody expects to do well here tonight.
I'd say there's pressure on both.
Fairburn shoots, knocked down in front by Dennis Potman. Dennis has the puck, wheels one way then another, sets up in back of the net, goes to his left to Jerry Hart.
Jerry up on the left wing for Gillies, off the mark, taken by Gresher who shoots it back at the Islanders end.
Dennis Potman with the puck in back of the net. Hart right back to Dennis. Dennis now starts out. Up on the left wing for Gillies, off the mark.
Gresher with the puck, knocked off his stick and Kachuk sends the back pass to Gresher.
The center-right on the left wing, Polis, down the middle. The shot, six-day by Dennis Potman.
And we've got a penalty coming up for interference. And it'll be on the Islanders.
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12-17, the official time on the interference call to Clark Gillies.
Rangers now with a power play. Billy Smith makes the save off the face-off.
Lewis having trouble with it and he gets it back to Park who tries to get the shot off.
Park keeps it in. He's at the left point.
Lauren Hanning after him. Park with a good move now. Out front, Joe Baer shooting wide.
Park at the left point shoots, knocked down, loose. Lewis after it. Battle for, sends it back to the right point.
Joe Baer with it out front. Blocked by Lewis to Westfall.
Eddie on the left wing to Lauren Hanning and Joe Baer gets it back.
Joe Baer leads it for Park who sets up for the Rangers.
In his own end, on the right wing it goes to Joe Baer right back to Middleton and Lewis holds him up to Ratel.
Vickers, wide play by Billy Smith. Vickers was in along and Billy Smith made a beautiful save, broke his stick in half and gets back up.
Well Billy Smith made a tremendous play there Don. He felt for the post as the goaltender will do and in feeling for the post he broke his goal stick.
With the stick laying on the ice and Vickers in again on the breakaway using nothing but his pads in his hands he managed to hold Vickers off.
So Billy certainly had a first period to remember.
Just great goal sending tonight.
Betty has been tested much much more than Gilles Villamur but when he's been tested he's done the job.
And Billy Smith not only stops this one, clears it all the way to the Rangers end.
On the puck now is Joe Baer. We've got a minute to go on the penalty.
Joe Baer bringing it out, right wing to Ratel who can fly.
On the right wing Middleton. Middleton centering pass. Lewis knocks it away.
Joe Baer keeping it in. Stopped by Henning and he clears.
And we're down to 45 seconds on the penalty.
The Clark Gillies who's out at 12.37 for interference.
Park that is on line to Ratel.
Ratel knocked off his stick. Vickers has it offside of the Rangers.
And we have 34 seconds to go on the penalty to Clark Gillies.
Nothing nothing. 6.17 to go first period.
Well the Islanders are keeping the Rangers from setting up in their own zone.
And when the Rangers set up in your zone they're dangerous.
Steve Vickers of course perhaps the most dangerous marksman parking himself on the left corner.
Ricky Middleton playing over there on the right wing. Also dangerous.
Hamil Lacat has put Rod Joe Baer out on the point with Brad Fox. So there's a lot of firepower on this Ranger power play with Ratel at center.
They have one of the best of the National Hockey League. Jerry Hart trying to get it out.
It deflects. It's loose. Ratel's got it.
To Middleton right out front knocked away by Smith.
Eddie Westfall there. Eddie with it now. Left wing for Henning.
It's under his stick. 15 seconds on the penalty.
On the puck now Joe Baer in his own end.
Rod Joe Baer coming out. On the left wing it goes to Park.
We're under 8 seconds to go. Park coming down the middle.
Park down the middle. Did Joe Baer. Knocked off his stick.
Dennis Pottman with it. Time up on the penalty. Both teams are at full strength.
And the puck is called for stoppage and play in the corner of the right of Billy Smith.
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Ready for the draw to the right of Billy Smith. Back to the left point kept in by Marat.
And back of the net. The puck. And back of Dennis Pottman. He didn't see it.
He's not even trying to get at it. He can't. It's frozen against the board.
And we'll have another face off at the same spot.
Five and a half minutes to go. First period. Nothing nothing.
Well, Jill Marat has certainly been one of the ranger hot hitters here in the series.
He put Billy Harris over on the players bench earlier.
And they threw her off in the crowd. But it was a hard clean check by Jill Marat.
Who's built like a fire plug and hits like a truck.
The draw right to Billy Smith. Stopped it. Dennis Pottman around the board.
Rolls it in. The shot from the right wing by Butler is wide around the board.
Nystrom's got it. Bob back. Quick shot. Score! No! It hit the post and came out!
I don't believe it. It went in and out.
Everybody's wondering what happened. It hit the bar and came right back out.
It looked like it was in. Tough break. Urban back. Left wing. The shot wide.
Caram around the board. Taken by Nystrom. Trying to get it out. He does. Center right.
Stemkowski goes down. Incredible how that didn't go in.
Marat down the middle he goes. But Butler knocked away.
On the puck now is McMillan. McMillan fights with Greshner. Knocks him down.
Jerry Hart's got the puck. Hart to Nystrom right of the red line.
Nystrom quick drilling shot knocked down by Villamur. He lays it for Sanderson.
Sanderson around the board for Fairburn. Fairburn coming back and Sileron rides him off.
Back comes Lewis. Lost the puck as he swung and missed. Taken by Marat.
Marat to Fairburn. The shot. Gillies gets it out to center right.
Fairburn has nine lifetime goals against the Islanders. The best for the Rangers.
Lewis sends the puck in back of the net. Taken by Burt Marshall to Bourne.
Bourne coming out. Bourne center right on the left wing. Gillies shoots. Goal!
And it's one to nothing Islanders. The official time 16 minutes of the first period.
And there was no fixing on that one Jim. Well the Islanders had a mixed line out there.
Bobby Nystrom on the right wing never got off. Bobby Bourne the Islanders fastest skater.
Sped to center. Came in over the line. Has the two defensemen.
Park and Harris converged on Bourne. Bourne just simply slid it over on the left wing.
Clark Gillies banged it home. That coming right on the heels of a shot by Nystrom and hit the post.
Certainly the Islanders had reason there to fret and no they came right back and scored.
And the first goal of the game goes to the Islanders with four minutes to play in the period.
Ready now for the draw. After the goal. Goes to Burt Marshall. Goes to his left the laws.
Back to Marshall. Marshall at center right. Shoots in the corner to the left of Villamur.
It rolls in the corner to the right of Villamur. Both Bourne and Marshall get a fifth of the goal by Gillies.
Sanderson center right. Sanderson a shot. A save by Billy Smith. Billy moves it in back.
Lewis is there. Start of the right. Goes back to the left. His pass. Off the stick of Gillies to center right.
Ron Harris has it. Billy Harris that to him. To the Islanders line. Knocked away by Lewis.
Brad Park is on it in his own zone. Goes cross-eyed to Ron Harris. To Kachuk. Knocked away.
Back on it is Ron Harris. On the left wing for Sanderson. Back to Kachuk. The drop pass. Fairburn.
The park. The shot. Bounces off of Burt Marshall. And Billy Harris has it. And clears it.
The full length of the ice. It goes in the corner to the right of Villamur. And it'll be icing.
1-0. The Islanders are out front on the second playoff goal of the season for Clark Gillies.
From Bob Bourne. Burt Marshall. 16 minutes the official time of the goal.
Well Islanders in both games have scored by splitting the defense. I think the Rangers were very conscious of that.
As Bobby Bourne sped to center. Both Harris and Park closed on him. And that left Clark Gillies a lot of room on the wing.
Penn Gillies drilled it home. It's the ability to use that good speed that Bobby Bourne has that forces the defenseman to close.
And opens up your wing. And I tell you Jim as you and I have talked when he really learns how to harness that speed.
He's going to be something else. Well I think Bobby will have a good summer weightlifting program.
Get himself strengthened up and be a real fine prospect next year. He's 6'3". Close around 200.
And of course he can be a lot heavier as Jim said. And that's what the Islanders plan to do with him.
Ready now for the draw to the right of Billy Smith. Rittal. And Eddie Westphal.
A couple of old pros that have been at it for a while.
The draw. Battle for. And cleared out to center ice and keeps rolling into the Rangers end.
Reshner there. It's icing once again. And with 2.48 to go here in the first period. The Islanders are out front 1-0.
Eddie Westphal did not mean to ice that puck. Trying to use an angle to slide the puck down in the Rangers zone.
And he caught a good live board. The board actually catapulted that puck over the line.
Rittal has been dynamite on face-offs in the series. Dominey wins another.
Pickers with a puck. Right out front. Gilberto. Blocked by Hart. And back comes Drawan.
3 on 2. Jude. Down the middle. Jude for Westphal and Karam's off of a rock behind him.
Point. Sends it in the corner. Parisi. To Jenny Plotman. The shot wide. The Karam is loose.
Eddie Westphal out front. Unable to get the shot off. Was drawing in the slot. He was held up by Greschner.
And the puck is at center ice. Rittal across the line. Down the middle. Rittal shooting.
Beautiful save by Billy Smith. Who's on his knees going to his right as it was juggling in his glove.
Face-off to the right of Billy Smith at the Islanders end.
The Madison Square Garden building, Dom, doesn't like some arenas around the NHL keep a running tabulation on shots taken.
But I can assure everybody out there that Billy Smith has been well tested in the first period.
And he stood up to everything the Rangers have thrown at him. They've had breakaways. They've had close-in drives.
And they've had deflections. And Billy's been tough.
On the draw. Don LaRonde moves it to the corner.
Bird Marshall to Lewis. Right back to Bird. Bird has the puck now. Cuts in front of his own net. Up to Nystrom.
Nystrom gets it out to center ice. Taken by Don LaRonde. Andre right wing. The shot wide.
Or he would have had a goal because Villamur lost it. Lewis. Lose it to Villamur. Taken by Ron Harris.
And Howard goes out to him. And the puck is brought back out by Urban.
He shoots wide. After the puck is Nystrom. Battle for Urban in there.
Stamkowski after it. Lewis has it. Lewis with the puck. Sends it around the board to Henning.
Lawrence getting it out. Up on the left wing to Howard. Howard on the right wing. Nystrom. Nystrom has the puck.
Across the line. Left wing. Sends it to the corner. Harris went after him. He moves him out of the way.
Brad Park trying to get it out. Howard after him. It's in the corner to let the Villamur.
The Islanders now picking up some of the pressure. To center right for Urban. Urban after the puck.
And it's for Stamkowski. The shot partially blocked. Ricker changes center right.
On a crazy bounce. And.
Lauren Henning lost his helmet. Lauren has the puck. Center right. Lauren down the middle. Left wing.
Howard shoots. And it is blocked by Ron Harris up into the crowd.
And with 49 seconds to play here in the first period the Islanders lead 1-0.
Making his first appearance for the Rangers during that last shift was Jerry Butler. Jerry played a fine game last night.
Did a lot of hitting. Got a big goal and a break away. Jerry was not getting too much ice.
But Jerry was teamed with Peter Stamkowski and got on ice for the first time with 49 seconds to go in the first period.
The face off to the right of Villamur. The Rangers end.
The puck just about moving. Hart coming in to try to keep it in the zone he does.
After it now is Born. And Cachute go at it. And Bob in there kicking at it.
And we're going to have a face off and it will be outside because Bobby Born tried to freeze it. Which he did.
So the call was a good one. Face off outside the Rangers line. Neutral zone center right.
36 seconds to play first period 1-0 Islanders.
It's happened to him now two or three times in this series. He's been freezing the puck when he really should be trying to play the puck.
That's where inexperience comes in.
On the draw. It goes to Greshner to Marat. Marat brings it out. 30 seconds to go on the period.
Hard drive and knocked down by Billy Smith. Leaves it for Jerry Hart. Jerry Hart with the puck.
Hart now up on the left wing. Gillies trying to get it out. He does. Race for the puck. Villamur way out of the net.
It's a good go for Marat. And he fires it around the board. Billy Harris stops it. To Denny Plotman. Dennis keeps it in.
On the puck Harris for Gillies knocked away by Greshner. Up on the right wing. And it's a center right and that's going to do it.
And that's the end of the first period. And at the end of the first period the New York Islanders lead one another.
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At the end of the first period, the New York Islanders are out front one-on-nothing on Clark Gilly's second playoff goal
from Bob Bourne and Burt Marshall at 16 minutes.
The Rangers outshot the Islanders 15 to 8 in the first period.
Gilly Smith was just simply sensational, and it looks like it's going to take sensational goals,
here tonight, at both ends of the ice.
The Islanders are out front one-to-nothing.
Intermission highlights are next on New York Islanders Hockey.
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This is Jim Garvey, and my guest during the intermission tonight is Ms. Laura Stan.
Laura is renowned for developing a new skating style known as power skating.
We'll speak about power skating, Laura, and hockey.
Laura, it's a pleasure to welcome you tonight.
It's a pleasure to be here tonight, Jim.
Laura, what is power skating?
Well, power skating to me, although the word power skating connotes power and speed.
It is power and speed, but it means a lot of things.
It means all those things that make one a better skater on the ice and therefore a better hockey player.
It means better balance, for one thing, better agility and maneuverability on the ice,
better use of the edges of your skates, better stride, you know, a more efficient stride, better backward skating.
In other words, it encompasses a great deal of different aspects of skating to go on to make you a better hockey player.
Well, in case those of us in the audience have a feel that we've seen the name Laura Stan somewhere,
we probably have because I've seen in print and I know I've spoken to a fellow on the islanders
who has actually worked with you and in doing so I know has improved not only his skating,
I don't know if you're a shooting instructor as well, but he's improved his shooting because he led the islanders in scoring.
And you might want to talk about your friend Bobby Neistrom.
Well, I saw Bob Neistrom the other night and I was really thrilled to watch him skate because the improvement that I've seen
and the difference that it shows is incredible.
Bob, when I first worked with him a couple of years ago, was very insecure, I think, in his own feeling about his skating.
He knew that it was his weak point and he wanted so much to improve it.
And I feel kind of proud. I think that he really has improved his skating.
And I know that in the game of hockey when your skating improves, everything else improves also.
So, no, I'm not a shooting instructor or anything, but I think that his better balance and everything else about his skating, etc.
has helped his hockey in general.
It certainly helped his confidence and I know Bob has been kidded a little bit by me about having a female coach,
but I know it doesn't bother him.
And I think personally that it's great.
I think that any people out there who may have perhaps had the opportunity to get instruction
and perhaps gone into a rink and seen a female instructor there and said,
well, perhaps this isn't for me, that has stood up and taken notice.
Because I know professional hockey never lets an opportunity go by when they see a fellow on the ice who needs a little skating
and who's a person like yourself.
I know in addition to Bob, you've worked with a fellow over in the World Hockey Association who had a great season.
That's Gene Peacock.
Yes, Gene is doing really well.
I worked with the entire New York Golden Blades team when they were in New York before they went to San Diego.
So I worked with quite everybody on the team and Gene was completely enthralled with it.
He thought that it helped him so immensely.
He really helped me a lot in getting me out to other hockey schools in Canada because he thought it was such a terrific program.
Laura, have you done any writing?
I know this is a topic that I think a lot of people, including myself as another skater, really are interested in.
You had spoken to me briefly and I thought perhaps you were going to do a book on it.
Yes, I'm in the process now of writing a book on how to skate the hockey way,
which I'm hoping to get published sometime this fall.
I have written articles for different magazines on the topic of power skating,
on proper stride and better balance, better back with skating and that kind of thing.
How important is the skate, the actual purchase of the skate, to the young person learning and developing his skating?
You can't stress enough how important a good skate is.
Not only the make of the skate, in that it's a solid construction, but in the fit of the skate.
So many parents, in an attempt to economize and hope that their kids will grow into a skate in a year or two,
will go out and buy something that's too big for the kid.
This is the worst thing that somebody can do because then the ankles cave in and the feet hurt.
All the problems with ankles really stem from the fact that the skate is either poor quality or poor fit.
Laura, is there an age that's really the proper age for one to begin skating?
And a person almost as soon as they walk, begin to skate.
Well, I think a youngster, even as you say, beginning to walk can get on skate.
Not that they're going to really learn how to skate at that age,
but they can become familiar with the ice and learn to feel comfortable on the ice.
But when a fellow or a girl too, when they're of the age of five and six,
that's the time when their legs are beginning to develop to a point where they're getting strong enough to start to learn how to push on the ice.
And if you start young in anything, you have a jump over everybody else.
There's no question there. I'd like to strongly urge the parents out there,
who may perhaps be thinking of something for the youngsters to do this summer that might be worthwhile,
strongly consider that they look in their local newspapers and magazines,
and when they see opportunities to engage Laura Stam and her power skating force,
certainly avail themselves to it.
I know that professional training, be it in golf, tennis, or ice skating, is certainly essential.
I know that many young people pride themselves in having taught themselves.
But having myself done it the hard way in golf, gotten a little instruction,
I can attest to the fact that a little instruction and hard practice will really do a lot more good
than just many, many hours of repeating the same errors over and over.
Laura, do you agree?
Oh, I definitely agree, because unless you're shown how to do it the right way,
you don't know what your errors are, and so you're building in habits that may take years to break,
and those may be the wrong habits.
If you're lucky, like Bobby Orr, who of course is self-taught, I'm sure,
then he just came out lucky. He came out knowing how to do it right.
But most of us don't do it that way. We learn and we get our errors.
So it's really important to be taught the right way.
Well, out here in this hockey game tonight with the Rangers and the Islanders,
there may be one in a million Bobby Orrs, but most of the guys out there have developed their skating styles
through long, arduous practice sessions, and again, we want to thank you, Laura, for being with us
and urge everyone to sharpen up your skating this summer, engage in power skating.
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Well, it's an entirely different hockey game tonight.
From the one we saw last night, the brawling, the fighting has not been repeated.
In fact, in the first period, we had only two penalties called.
Bruce Hood fingering Ted Urban for roughing at 746 and Clark Gillies for an appearance at 1217.
Both the Islanders and the Rangers successfully killed off those penalties,
and I guess the story in the first period will have to be Billy Smith and the New York Islanders in goal.
Shots on goal in the first period for the New York Rangers, 15, and for the Islanders, 8.
And many of those 15 shots that were taken on Billy Smith were close in drives,
and in fact three or four came on breakaways, and Billy was up to all of them.
Another key ingredient in tonight's 1-0 score here after one period
has been the ability of the Islanders to control face-offs, especially in their own end.
In the first two games of the series, the New York Rangers completely dominated this statistic,
which often doesn't reach the fan, but people in the know in hockey games are always looking at face-offs,
because when you control the puck, you're controlling the game.
In the first period, there were 20 face-offs taken.
The Rangers controlled 9 and the Islanders 11.
If the Islanders can hold their own on face-offs, they stand a good chance in this hockey game.
In another semifinal series, the big upset up in Boston taking place,
with only three minutes to go in the third period, it's the Chicago Blackhawks 6 and the Boston Bruins 3.
Now this upset, it should have come to pass, has some implications for Islander fans.
If the Islanders were to hang on and win this hockey game tonight, and Toronto were to defeat LA,
that would pitch the New York Islanders with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the next series.
Of course, we have a lot of presumptions here, and we really don't want to get into it.
But in a moment, we'd like to remind everybody that Bill Curry, our pregame guest,
receives benefit too with the Ginger Man, located right across from the Lincoln Center in New York.
It's 51st, 51 West 54th Street, right in the heart of the entertainment district.
So the Ginger Man for Bill Curry and the Salty Dog for Laura Stam,
and now the Rangers have come on ice.
The Islanders have not yet made their appearance, and the score again, for those who might have tuned in late,
after one period of play, it's the New York Islanders one and the New York Rangers no score.
The Islander goal came at the 16 minute mark of the first period, and it was scored by Clark Gillies,
his second goal of the playoffs, both scored here in Madison Square Garden.
Bird Monster picked up an assist along with Bobby Bourne, Bobby the guy who made the play,
picking up the puck at center, coming in over the line, throwing Brad Park and Ron Harris to him,
sliding the puck to Gillies on his left, and Gillies beating Gilles Villamur.
Just before the goal by Gillies, the Islanders had another good opportunity when Bobby Neistrom,
steaming down the right board, let go and drive, which either caught Villamur a little bit by surprise,
or Villamur perhaps was screened, because Gilles made no move at the puck,
the puck got by him and hit the crossbar and bounced out.
Actually it was on the insane rush that the Islanders picked up their goal.
Although the Islanders, of leading in the hockey game, won nothing,
the Rangers, as we said, had great chances on the net.
Billy Smith had to come up big on numerous occasions.
The Islanders are going to have to just tighten up, protect against the long pass,
and continue to check and play their position.
Down both teams are on ice.
Jean Rattel, who has to be considered, I guess, the star of the playoffs so far,
skates to center ice, along with Jude Drewin, and as Bruce Hood steps into the faceoff, back to you.
Thank you very much Jim, and Jean Rattel was great last night, as was Steve Vickers.
We're ready to go, second period.
The draw taken by Gilbert, the back pass to park cross-ice Harris.
Ron Harris moves it out to Rattel, intercepted by Drewin.
Jude has it up ahead to Westfall, any left wing, Parisi, drop pass, Louis shoots,
deflection attempt wide, backhander, up over the net by Parisi.
And Bruce Hood ends up on the seat of his pants.
Ron Harris is down on the corner to the left of Villamur, and now Villamur gets up.
Well Dom, that looks like a Keystone comedy act, with Bruce Hood sailing over Ron Harris,
and Jill Villamur getting up slowly, but I'm very concerned for the health of Jill Villamur.
I walked up with him, as we said last night, out of Madison Square Garden,
Jill and his wife, and Jill was having great difficulty just negotiating the stairs and the coliseum.
I know Bruce Hood has been over to talk to him.
I know he's playing in pain, and he's a good little guy, and he's playing a great hockey game.
He's a tremendous goaltender.
He showed it last night when it counted.
Jill Bear with a puck, center right, on the right wing, and Rattel pushed away, taken by Louis.
Louis coming back, and Rattel steals the puck.
Drewin drives him on the board, and Louis has got it back to Parisi.
Parisi center right, JP across the line, left wing, Westfall to Drewin.
Jude collects right wing, the shot, blocked, taken by Park.
The Vickers on the left wing behind Jill Bear, it's offside,
face off in the neutral zone at center right, outside the Islanders line.
One nothing Islanders.
Well, the first minute of the second period showed a little more freewheeling action,
with both sides opening up just a little bit.
Amiel LeCat has told his Rangers in the locker room that unless you win today, there's no tomorrow,
and the Rangers coming out putting on pressure.
Walt Kachuk is now out to replace Rattel, and his combination is on for the Rangers.
On the draw, taken by Jerry Hart, cross-eyed as it goes to Denny Pot, Van De Borne,
knocks away Dennis back on it.
Dennis gets it up to Harris, Billy Harris knocked down.
The puck is loose.
Sanderson trying to move it across the line, he does, and it is taken by Borne, Borne flying,
across the line, left wing, Gillies shot wide.
The puck was deflected just enough so that Gillies couldn't get the shot off.
And the Rangers start back.
Harris, cross-eyed for Sanderson, who gets it out to center-right.
Hart after the puck, knocks it away from Fairburn, collected by Billy Harris.
Billy moves it in across the line.
He and Sanderson after the puck, and they bang Hart on the board,
and the puck is taken for the Rangers by Greshner, knocked off his stick by Gillies.
Harris after it, Billy Harris knocked down.
We have a broken stick out of the ice.
Down goes Greshner, Sandler-Rahn on top of him.
Back come the Rangers, Kachuk with it.
Walt Kachuk at center-right on the left wing, and a good check by Hart on Kachuk.
And the puck is taken by Dennis Pot, Van De Borne, Andres, centering pass, deflected wide.
Gillies after it.
It's hit around the board, Fairburn trying to get it out, kept in by Jerry Hart.
Greshner moves it to Fairburn, and again Jerry Hart moves him away.
And the puck is at center-right, taken by Kachuk.
Kachuk down the middle.
Kachuk with a puck in the right wing, drop pass Anderson, the shot, pick up save by Billy Smith.
Face-off coming to the left of Billy and the Islanders end.
There's a break in the action.
One nothing, Islanders.
We'll be back in a moment.
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The draw, kept in by Butler, it's in back of the Islanders' net.
Lewis around the board, it's a nice one trying to get it out.
And it is called for a face-off.
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A battle for that box, centering pass taken by Don LaRant, two on one.
Harris in the middle, Andre Schuch, and it hits a post and comes out to center-right.
Butler with it, moves it across the line, right wing, down the middle, knocked away by Nystrom.
Nystrom comes roaring back for the Islanders.
He's at center-right, shoots it in the corner left of Villamur.
Villamur moves it away from Howitt, hits up on the left wing, collected for the Rangers by Butler down the middle.
Drop pass, Butler shooting, Gloucester Smith, knocked away.
Bruins got it.
Jude coming back, right wing, Nystrom across the line, drop pass, Bruins to Nystrom.
Nystrom out front, knocked away.
Huckers loosened back of the net.
Howitt after it.
Ron Harris has it.
And a power cut off on Howitt as he dragged Ron Harris down.
So Gary will go off now for two minutes.
The official time on the penalty is 3.36 of the second period.
The Islanders are leading 1-0, but now they're going to have to play short-handed.
It'll be holding on Gary Howitt, face off outside the Rangers line of the neutral is on the center-right.
Well, there's no question about the foul, Don, but you ought to dwell just for a moment on the play which preceded it.
Nystrom would have passed out to Tom Leran, who came down two-on-one with Gary Howitt.
Andre using Howitt as a decoy, let one go, beat Villamil cleanly, and again hit the goal post.
The Islanders now have two solid goal posts.
The Hockies are game or in key.
All right, we're ready now for the draw.
The Islanders short-handed once again now for two minutes.
They lead in the hockey game one another.
Eddie Westphal and Lauren Henning are the penalty killers.
Dennis Potman, Jerry Hart, the power play for the Rangers, one of the best in the National Hockey League.
Brad Park at one point with Rod Gilbert.
Billy Fairburn, who has nine lifetime goals against the Islanders with Rattell and Vickers.
Fairburn with a puck across the line, right wing to Rattell.
Rattell knocks off his stick.
Westphal's got it.
Eddie trying to clear it.
Banks it out to center-right.
Fairburn on the puck, the back pass to Gilbert.
Sixteen minutes to go, second period.
The Islanders lead one-nothing to Park.
Up in the left wing to Vickers, right back to Rattell.
Rattell down the middle.
Right wing Fairburn, the shot blocked by Jerry Hart.
And Fairburn is back on the puck.
The park, the shot, deflected wide.
Vickers has the puck.
Back to the left point.
Park in the corner, it goes to Vickers.
Out front, knocked away from Gil Band.
And the beauty.
And the puck is taken by Westphal.
Eddie out, left wing, center-right.
Westphal wheels, back pass to Jerry Hart.
And he's got a minute to go on the penalty.
To Dennis Plotband, to Westphal.
Eddie gets into the Rangers line.
Fifty-five seconds on the penalty.
Back come the Rangers and Gilbert.
To Rattell down the middle.
Drop pass to Park.
Right wing Gilbert slides it on the right wing to Fairburn.
Back to Gilbert.
The puck in the slot.
Rattell, back hander, saved by Billy Smith.
Thirty-five seconds on the penalty.
The ball trying to clear.
It's kept in by Gil Band.
To Park, to Vickers.
Shot, barely saved by Billy Smith.
Uh-oh, here we go.
Here we go.
And we're going to have a minor draw, but the officials come right in.
A lot of bumping and shoving in there.
Twenty-eight seconds to go on the penalty.
What a save by Billy Smith.
Well, Billy Smith has just been fantastic.
You can tell Billy's concentrating on hockey
and he's up.
Here goes Gil Band and Jerry Hart now.
Starting to push and shove.
And now John Rattell, which you never see, starts to throw something in there.
And Jerry Hart is being held off by Neil Armstrong.
I don't think we're going to have much more than a lot of pushing and shoving here down,
but Billy Smith, you can tell, has come to play because he's just sitting right in that crease
thinking about nothing but hockey.
And when Billy's doing that, you know he's sharp.
Let's see what Hood's going to call here as he skates slowly to the box.
Twenty-eight seconds to go on the penalty.
That's the key factor here.
To Gary Howlett.
Billy Fairburn goes out.
And also Dennis Potbann will go also.
So the two of them who got embroiled will go out.
The official time now is five minutes and eight seconds of the period.
And we'll get the calls now.
The situation will be, the situation will be, the situation will be,
Fairburn goes out.
And also Dennis Potbann will go also.
So the two of them who got embroiled will go out.
The official time now is five minutes and eight seconds of the period.
And we'll get the calls now.
The situation will be four on three for twenty-eight seconds.
Hold on, this is no way an advantage.
Fairburn and Howlett again charging to both.
So Fairburn and Dennis Potbann go out.
What I was going to say, Dom, is that this is not an advantage
because now the Islanders will be playing three against four,
which is probably a more difficult situation than five against four.
Four against three is a lot more difficult.
In addition, the Islanders' best defenseman is sitting in the penalty box.
The Islanders had a lot of practice with it last night, Jim.
He's on to the left of Billy Smith, Lewis after the puck trying to clear it.
He can't.
Park keeps it in.
Park to Joe Baer.
Joe Baer with the puck.
Moses along the board to retell to Joe Baer the shot blocked.
West ball cleared.
And it goes to full length of the ice.
Villaveu out of the net.
Islanders trying to kill off the penalty.
We've got five seconds on the penalty.
Park, Joe Baer.
Joe Baer right wing.
Joe Baer with the puck along the board.
The centering pass knocked away by Smith.
It's in the corner.
Time up on the penalty to Howard.
Both teams at full strength and the puck is cleared.
Racing for it now is Park.
And it'll be icing.
There's a break in the action.
One-nothing Islanders will be back in a moment.
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All right, we're now four on four, equal strength.
And of course the men of the man is eliminated on either side or both.
It opens up the game.
And then you get down to skating with each other.
14.08 to go in the second period.
On the draw, the puck loose, Polar Shoots blocked by Lewis.
Up on the right wing it goes to Harris.
Billy Harris with it, cross-eyed to the left of Burt Marshall.
Back to Harris. Billy out, center right.
Harris has the puck knocked off his stick by Maroc to Sanderson.
He loses. Greshner has it at center right.
Greshner across the line, down the middle.
Greshner with the puck goes to the left point.
His pass blocked by Marshall.
Greshner back on it. Marshall moves it out to center right.
Penalty coming up on Greshner.
The Islanders pull their goalie. Harris coming in.
The shot blocked. Billy back on it. Billy knocked down.
And we've got a penalty coming up for tripping is the call.
The official time will be 6.30 of the second period.
Ron Greshner for tripping.
The Islanders now will have a man advantage.
We have 38 seconds to go on the penalties to Billy Fairburn and Dennis Potvin.
And Ron Greshner now goes out at 6.30 for tripping.
Well Don, we have the situation here reversed.
Just a short while ago it was the Rangers playing four on three with the Islanders.
Now with 38 seconds to go on the penalties to Fairburn and Potvin,
it'll be the Islanders playing four on three.
Four on threes and five on fours, five on threes.
As you said, open up the ice.
It certainly makes for a more exciting hockey if you're a hockey fan,
but doesn't do much for coaches Al Arbor and Emil Francis.
I want to remind you now, the winner of this game,
as we gave you some possibilities before,
will be playing Sunday either in Buffalo, Montreal, or Pittsburgh,
depending on who wins in this first round.
Faced off to the left of Villamur.
On the draw, Billy Harris, right point.
Anderson intercepts.
Anderson with a puck to Ron Harris.
To Sanderson, back to Harris.
Intercepted by Billy Harris.
Two on one, Billy, he's knocked down.
And it's an offside on the Islanders.
Faced off in the center right zone, outside the Rangers line.
Well that was a big offside call,
because had the offside not been called, perhaps a tripping call might have been in order.
As Billy Harris came over the line, he was tripped up by Marat,
but the offside, which preceded the foul, takes precedence there and the offside stands.
Again, a good break for the Islanders, which they don't capitalize on.
The Islanders with a man advantage, four on three in 24 seconds.
It'll be five on four.
Billy Fairburn, Dennis Potvin in the penalty box.
One nothing, the Islanders lead on the first period goal.
That has been the difference so far by Gillies.
On the draw, Parisi around the board.
Harris trying to get it out and Sanderson does get it out.
Into the Islanders end, stopped by Billy Smith.
Billy leaves it in back, collected by John Potvin.
John coming back. John center right.
John Potvin left wing, Parisi back to John.
John Potvin right point, through and thick back the shot, skips up into the crowd.
And we're going to have a face off coming up.
We're down to nine seconds on the penalty.
To Billy Fairburn and to Dennis Potvin.
The Islanders with a man advantage, a four on three situation.
And we still have a minute 31 to go on the penalty digression.
Well Don, you see a classic difference here in the styles of the two clubs.
When the Rangers get the play, the power play, they move the puck looking for a close in shot.
We've seen the Islanders throughout this series when they've been up on the power play.
Content to take the long point shot, which I think frankly plays into the hands of your opponent.
When you have that four on three situation, what you want to do is move it in.
The clock evidently, Jim has gone awry and it's been wound down.
The penalty has now concluded on Billy Fairburn of the Rangers and Dennis Potvin of the Islanders.
So we go to a five on four situation.
And Ron Greshner now is still in the penalty box.
He's got a minute and 21 seconds to go on his penalty.
So the Islanders end up with a man advantage anyway.
The face off now outside the Rangers line, neutral zone at center right.
And that puts Dennis Potvin out on the point where he can really do damage.
So this here with now with one twenty one to go, the Islanders have a good opportunity to set it up.
One change in the power play.
Billy Harris has been inserted on right wing with Parisi and Jude Ruhn.
Eddie Westfall sitting ready now for the face off.
Sanderson and Jude Ruhn on the draw.
Comes back on the right to John Potvin, goes to brother Dennis up on the left wing ahead of Parisi.
Parisi Park race for the puck in the corner.
Billy Harris has it. Billy Harris with it.
Billy on the right wing, wheeling away from Sanderson.
Billy in the back of the net to Parisi.
He's in the corner of the left to Villamur to Billy Harris.
Billy now skating around back to the right point.
John Potvin, cross eyes left point.
Dennis left wing still in the puck is Jude Ruhn.
Comes back to Dennis. Dennis to Parisi.
Out front drawing his shot.
He was looking for a tip in. Nobody put the stick down.
John Potvin with it. John to Dennis.
Dennis shoots, block, and the puck is in center right.
Thirty seconds to go on the penalty to Greister.
Dennis Potvin up to Billy Harris.
The back pass to the right to John Potvin.
John on the left wing ahead of Parisi.
Villamur stops it, leads it for Sanderson.
He fires it around the board and it deflects up into the crowd.
We'll have another face off coming up.
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Face off to the left to Villamur and the Rangers end one nothing out of it.
Well, the islanders experiencing that same problem.
Able to work the plays at the perimeter but not getting anything enclosed.
Jude Ruhn put the puck across the goal mouth looking for Harris,
but Billy was unable to get the stick to it.
But that's the kind of play that'll score on the power play.
Twenty seconds to go on the penalty to Greister.
Islanders with a man advantage a five on four situation.
Battle for that puck, Donald Iran, Nystrom, the stick's flying.
Villamur out of the net.
He bangs it around the board.
Dennis Potvin trying to keep it in.
Dennis does.
Dennis with it.
To Nystrom, right point.
John Potvin shoots.
And the islanders lead it two to nothing.
And it's a power play goal.
Four seconds to go on the penalty to Greister.
And the islanders now have drawn up by two.
The official time, 8.26 of the second period.
Tom, I think that one was tipped.
And I think it'll go to either Denny Potvin or to Gary Howitt,
both of whom were camped in front of the goal.
We talked about getting in front.
That's where you score.
The islanders having two men in front of the goal.
Denny Potvin and Gary Howitt.
It's two to nothing.
Both teams now, of course, at full strength.
That terminates the power play.
On the draw, it's taken by Szymkowski across the line, right wing.
Lewis sends it around the board.
And Nystrom lets Marat declare himself and brings it out.
Bob Nystrom across the line, right wing.
Bob has it knocked off his stick.
And Marat sends it around the board.
It is taken by Howitt.
Dennis Potvin gets the goal on a tip and is first in the playoff.
John Potvin, Nystrom the assist.
Potluse bounces across the mouth of the goal.
And it comes out to center right.
Lewis is there.
To Nystrom, Bob right back down the middle.
Nystrom quick shot.
And it is blocked by Marat.
He catches it in the midsection.
There's a break in the action.
Two to nothing, islanders.
We'll be back in a moment.
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Because that's another big game.
The draw right out in front of Villamur in the slot.
Back to the right point.
Marshall tees it up the shot.
Knocked away by Villamur on the carom.
Brad Park's got it.
Park coming back out for the Rangers.
Park with it.
Right after him is Joe Drone, who can skate.
Park brings it out.
And Drone is all over him.
Drone really tying him up.
Lewis comes in for the puck to help out.
Gilbear's got it.
He had Manzinger-Rutel backhander partially blocked by Marshall.
And the puck is taken by J.P. Parisi.
Battle for that puck.
Loosen back of the net.
Vickers has got it.
Back to the right point.
Ron Harris shoots.
The deflection is up over the net.
Billy didn't see it.
Vickers with it.
Centering pass.
Knocked away.
Billy Smith's got it.
The save by Billy Smith.
A beauty.
Another great save by Billy.
And on the puck is Eddie Westfall.
And he rolls it into the Rangers' end.
Nine-fifty to go.
Second period.
Islanders leading 2-0.
What goal?
Tending by Billy Smith.
John Rutel across the line.
Left wing.
The Vickers.
Dr. Rutel.
The shot.
Hit the side of the net.
Lewis fights for the puck.
In comes Marshall.
It's called for a stoppage in play.
And with nine-thirty-seven to go, we will have a faceoff to the right of Billy Smith.
Well, it's official now up in Boston.
The Boston Bruins.
Long time Stanley Cup club that's always been considered one of the favorites with Bobby
Orange, Phil Estesito and company.
And they've been eliminated down from this year's finals in an upset, a startling upset
at that.
The Chicago Blackhawks, third place in their division.
And they've eliminated the Bruins by the score of six to four.
Congratulations to the Blackhawks.
And on they go in the Stanley Cup.
That means that neither the Rangers nor the Islanders will go to Buffalo.
Ready now for the draw.
The Rangers fans really coming to life.
They're trying to urge their team into the quarterfinal round.
Billy Smith has been a different so far.
Bruce Hood, Neil Armstrong, Ray Scaffonello.
They've got their work cut out for them.
And Bruce Hood has done an excellent job, Jim, trying to control the game.
It's been a tough one.
We're going to do it again.
Buck went down.
We'll have another faceoff.
Nine thirty-seven to go.
In the second period, Islanders lead two-nothing.
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The Yankees and the Tigers.
Ready now for the draw.
Buck loose.
Dennis Potvan fires it around the board.
Jerry Hart's got it.
Hart's trying to get it out.
Up the gullies.
Tipped it to Bourne.
He's racing with Maraghe.
He comes in.
Down the middle.
What a save by Villamur.
Harris was set up by Bourne.
And the puck is in back of the Islanders' net.
Around the board.
Second by Denny Potvan to Bourne.
Tipped it to center right.
Nine-oh-five to go.
In the second period.
Two-nothing Islanders.
And it was almost three.
But Villamur with a fantastic save.
Pucks send it to the Islanders.
And to the left of Billy Smith.
Gilles gets it around the board.
Gilles fights for it to Harris.
Billy has it.
Goes to his left for Bobby Bourne.
He gets out to center right.
Bourne after the puck.
Bourne now having trouble.
Loses to Fairburn.
Fairburn with it.
He's in the corner with Billy Smith.
The Islanders furiously trying to get it out.
The Rangers fighting to keep it in.
And the battle continues for the Pucks.
Bang around.
Fairburn's got it.
Fairburn right wing coming in.
Down the middle.
Knocked away.
Fairburn again on the puck.
Fairburn spun around.
Penalty coming up on Jerry Hart.
And the official time on the penalty now is 11.32 of the period.
There's a break in the action.
Two-nothing Islanders will be back in a moment.
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Jerry Hart goes out for holding at 11.32.
The Islanders now are shorthanded once again.
They've been shorthanded once.
Two times.
Three.
Fourth penalty on the Islanders.
On the draw to Billy Smith.
Billy sends it back to the left point area.
Park keeps it in.
Rangers now really pressing.
Lewis trying to get it out.
Roger Behr's got it.
Eddie Westphal pushes him out of the zone.
Centering pass.
Vickers to Park.
Left point.
The shot.
Block.
And cleared by a heading.
Eight minutes to go in the second period.
Both teams with furious action.
What a game.
As both have settled down to the game of hockey.
On the puck is Richelle across the line.
Right wing.
The fair burn centering pass.
Deflected.
Park keeps it in.
Goes to Joe Bear.
His pass knocked away.
Eddie Westphal clears.
And he sends it back to the Rangers end.
We're now to a minute and ten to go on the penalty to Jerry Hart who went out for holding.
The Rangers come back.
With it now is Richelle.
His pass blocked.
Park shoots.
Great save by Billy Smith.
Park again on the puck.
In the part of the right of Billy Smith.
And look at this.
Butler and Lewis fighting in the crease.
And they're going at it.
And the puck is loose.
Billy Smith sits on it.
And here's a real draw now.
And Butler jumps on top of Lewis.
And now Lewis is on top of Butler.
Well this one's a real pier sixer as Butler was sent in there to stir it up.
And now he's got bodies all over the ice.
It looks a little bit like last night.
Bert Marshall was down on the ice with Brad Park.
And they let each other up as the officials now separate.
Butler and Lewis.
Both of them tangling in front of the net.
Lewis doing his job trying to keep Butler away.
Jerry Butler trying to stir it up.
I think they both got to go for five here.
Well the big thing is that the puck was smothered in the crease.
And that's what it's all about.
We got 48 seconds to go on the penalty to Hart.
John, I hate to interrupt you but I think Butler may have lost a tooth.
As they're looking around down there in the ice now.
Or maybe a contact lens because now Butler's skating well.
I was going to say because most of the boys have lost their teeth.
Butler of course is a very aggressive guy.
He's in the penalty box.
Lewis is going to join him.
You can see it coming because Butler wanted to try to stay in the slot.
Then he got into the crease area.
And Billy Smith wanted him out of there.
Lewis did the right thing.
He tried to get him out of there.
And you know there was going to be a battle.
Well I hope this is five and five, John.
Because I think what Emile may have wanted was a couple of two minute penalties.
To set up a four on three situation.
I hope they each get five here.
Oh no.
Yes, okay.
There it goes.
It's going to go for seven minutes.
So that will be a coincidental penalty.
And there will be no manpower shortage as a result.
Alright, 48 seconds to go on the penalty to Jerry Hart.
The Islanders are short handed.
The Rangers and the Islanders battling furiously here.
Seven sixteen to go in the second period.
And the Islanders lead it two to nothing.
And the hunt continues for a contact lens.
And Jim you can imagine it's a very very light tissue on top of that ice.
It's almost impossible to find.
Right it is.
I notice Butler has a ghost head though, Dom, down there in the penalty box.
So I'm not certain that he wears contact lenses, are you?
I don't know at all, Jim, whether he does.
Both of them got in good shots though.
We wouldn't want to give them the wrong impression I think.
The first four rounds of the brawl went to Butler.
And I guess the last four went to Lewis.
And we gave him a draw.
I tell you Jim, you remind me of Johnny Addy.
Was he one of your favorites?
Yes he was.
On the puck is Henning Henning.
So Denny Plotman in.
Shot. Goal!
And the Islanders go out front three to nothing.
And it's a short handed goal for Dennis Plotman.
The official time of the goal.
Twelve fifty one of the second period.
Well, Lorne Henning made the play.
Lorne Henning blocking the pass.
Sending Dennis Plotman in with forty one seconds.
Still up on the board of the penalty.
Plotman cleanly beating Villa Muro with a slap shot.
And all of a sudden this garden crowd is really shocked.
They don't believe what they're seeing, Dom.
As the Islanders jump out three oh.
Well, it's not over.
We got seven oh nine to go here in the second period.
The entire third period.
The Islanders are still short handed.
A short handed goal for Denny Plotman.
Dennis Plotman from Lorne Henning.
Joe Bear across the line.
Right wing.
Eddie Westball has the puck.
Gets it out to center right and rolls into the Rangers end.
Twelve fifty one the official time of the goal.
For Dennis' second goal of the night.
Second of the playoff.
Rick Middleton up to his own line.
The puck taken by Butler down the middle of Rattell.
He's ridden off.
And Burt Marshall's got it.
Rattell fighting for the puck.
It's in the corner.
Irvin after it.
Dennis Plotman clears.
Three seconds.
Two.
One.
And time up on the penalty.
Both teams at full strength.
Rodgiel Bear with the puck.
The Islanders change of the fly.
To Stempkowski up on the left wing.
And the puck is knocked away by Denny Plotman.
Regained by Stempkowski.
To Ted Irvin.
Taken by McMillan.
McMillan two on one.
Left wing.
Shot.
Safe.
Shot.
Great save.
The shot off the post by Stonlarod.
Villamur with a couple of great saves.
The Islanders with another great opportunity.
Six minutes to play in the second period.
And the puck is battled for and sat on.
Along the board.
To the right of the goaltender Villamur.
The Islanders lead it three nothing.
Five fifty six to go.
Second period.
Well the Islanders coming very close there to making it four nothing.
And now Eddie Jopman is jumping over the board tonight.
Can't remember when I've seen so many goaltenders in games between the Islanders and the Raysers.
Kill Villamur to get him his dude down.
I really think it's hurting.
He's been moving very slowly.
And he did his best out there tonight.
He's a great goaltender.
And I think the leg was really bothering him.
It was.
And he is a great goaltender.
And he did an outstanding job.
And Villamur of course not happy with himself.
He's a great competitor.
But he really was great last night and again tonight.
Face off to the right of Eddie Jackaman.
Who comes in now.
And it'll be the right of Eddie in the Rangers end.
Well Andre Cylaron had a great opportunity there to make it four nothing.
Right before the goalie change.
And we ought to point out that Jopman comes into the game cold.
His last warm up was some fifteen minutes before the game.
And he really didn't warm up very well as he was not the starter here tonight.
On the draw.
Taken by Ron Harris.
The center right.
To Urban.
Back to Szymkowski.
Knocked off his stick.
The puck in the Islanders end.
Billy Smith.
Sticks it in the corner to his left.
And Jerry Hart is after it.
And we're going to have a face off coming up.
And a slashing call coming up.
The official time on that slashing penalty now.
Is going to be fourteen minutes and twenty seconds.
Of the second period.
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Ron Harris two minutes for slashing the Islanders now.
Have Dave Lewis still in the penalty box.
Who was involved in that brawl with Butler.
But of course those were coincidental majors.
So it didn't matter.
So now we have a five on four situation.
The Islanders with a man advantage.
They lead to the hockey game three to nothing.
Five forty to play second period.
Billy Harris with a puck.
Billy tried to move around Park.
And Park makes a good play and knocks it away.
Kachuk's got it.
Walt Kachuk down the middle.
Kachuk trying to control it.
Knocked away.
Dennis Puckman.
He's got two goals tonight.
Down the middle.
Left wing.
Shoots wide.
The camera on the board.
Billy Harris coming in from the right wing.
Billy trying to control.
Harris written up against the board.
Back to the right point.
John Pottman with it.
John being held by Kachuk.
And the puck is cleared by Marat.
Hit back at the net.
Billy Smith stops it.
We're down to five minutes to go now.
The second period.
The Islanders lead three nothing.
We're under five minutes.
Back comes a John Pottman.
John at center-rise.
John Pottman right wing born.
Born quick shot wide.
Shot by Jackaman.
He moves it around Gillies.
It's on the right wing board.
Trying to bring it out now is Brad Park.
Park loses it to Born.
Born goes cross-ice.
Nobody there.
Gillies over for the puck.
John Pottman shooting.
Partially blocked.
Loose.
Knocked down is Billy Harris.
And the puck is cleared by Billy Fairburn
the full length of the ice.
Fifty seconds to go on the paneling out of Ron Harris.
Dennis Pottman's got it.
Fires it around the board to Gary Howitt.
Howitt at center-rise.
Gary across the line left wing.
Desson-LaRonde on the right wing.
Nice from tip-in wide.
The puck is banged by Fairburn.
After it is Desson-LaRonde and Fairburn.
Kept in by Andre.
Ron Greshner's got it.
Twenty-five seconds to go on the paneling to Ron Harris.
Greshner trying to skate it out.
We're under four minutes to go on the second period.
Greshner across the line right wing.
Greshner still controlling.
He's hit under the board.
And the puck is still loose.
Taken by Fairburn.
Fairburn is pinned under the board.
Nice from hazard lost it.
Gets it back.
And Nice from brings it out.
Nice from with a puck center-right.
Across the line right wing.
Nice from drop-back.
John Pottman shoots.
Blocked by Greshner.
And the puck is lifted to center-right.
Over the stick of Stemkowski.
And time is up on the paneling.
Both teams are at full strength.
Three and a half minutes to go in the second period.
To Andre St. Laurent.
Andre has it knocked off his stick.
Gary Howlett's got it.
Howlett on the left wing.
Howlett loses to Stemkowski.
The Rangers come back.
Stemkowski with it.
Stemkowski down the middle.
He shoots.
Blocked by John Pottman.
Bob Nice from comes back with Pottman.
John across the line right wing.
John Pottman.
A nice from the shot.
A save by Jakobman.
He moves into the corner to his right.
Centering pass.
Back to the left point.
Deep out front.
Marshall shoots.
Knocked down in front.
Howlett after the puck.
Right point.
John Pottman.
His pass crossed ice to the left point.
And it is behind Burt Marshall.
Back comes John Rattell.
Rattell is knocked off his stick.
To Stemkowski down the middle.
Hits a flex up in the air.
Pushed away by Howlett.
Nice from after the puck.
Nice from around Greshner.
Nice from has a man in front drawing.
The centering pass.
Howlett.
The shot.
A save.
And another great save by Jakobman.
Back comes Rattell.
The penalty.
And here we go.
Now Howlett and Jakobman.
Look at this.
And Howlett.
Gary Howlett is not fighting.
This is amazing.
He let Jakobman hit him three or four times Tom.
And never threw a push.
He didn't hit him.
I don't understand that Gary.
Oh I do.
He saw the play.
Jakobman was called for cross checking.
Pud had his hand up.
Pulling the check.
Gary did not want to go back at him.
Figuring now they ought to be two penalties called on Jakobman.
Smart hits a play by Gary Howlett.
Let's see how they call it Howlett.
A crowd chanting Eddie.
But of course.
Tom I must say that Gary Howlett there showed tremendous poise.
Gary's a competitor.
We both know that.
Gary held his hands up in the air.
Step back and never threw a punch.
Let's see what happens though.
Let's get the call first.
Gary Howlett.
Gary's probably saying to Jakobman we'll see you later.
And of course Eddie Jakobman's not going to back off either.
He's a great competitor.
Let's get the call now.
This is what I mean.
Look at this.
Oh now Howlett's going to get a penalty.
I knew it.
Oh man.
All right let's see how they call it and then we'll give it to you.
The official time of the penalty will be seventeen thirty four of the second period.
The Islanders are leading the game.
Bob Knight from his best friend tells him to go to the penalty box and we were following
the puck.
As Jim gave it to you now let's get these calls first.
That's why Gary Howlett wouldn't fight with him.
He wanted the advantage and Jakobman knew it and tried to draw him into it and Eddie got
away with it.
Well it remains to be seen what the total calls will be.
I know Hood had his hand raised for Jakobman on the cross check.
Let's see what happens in the fighting situation.
I somehow have to believe Hood was looking right at it.
I know he's going to play.
I think the Islanders ought to get an advantage out of this situation.
All right it's three to nothing.
Second period.
The Islanders lead two twenty six to go.
Chicago has already defeated Boston in a best two out of three.
So that means the Islanders will not play in Buffalo.
Now with Chicago winning we have to wait and see who wins between Los Angeles and Toronto.
Here are the panel is now.
Gary Howlett is going to go off.
He already has.
Roughing on Gary Howlett.
Two minutes for roughing, two minutes for cross checking.
Game misconduct for Pete Demkowski who was the third man on the fight.
Well I have to say that's fairly equitable.
I knew that the call was going to go to Jakobman for roughing.
I saw the roughing.
I saw Hood's hand go up.
The only smart move that Gary made.
Gary took a punch or two and you have to give Gary a lot of credit.
They gave him roughing.
I don't think he was guilty of roughing myself.
But if you had to look at it objectively I thought Hood handled that situation very well.
He's done a great job really.
This is a very spirited game.
It's a very difficult game to call.
I think he's handled it extremely well.
And you know how high tempers are because all the marbles are on the table.
So to recap it for you.
Eddie Jakobman will have his penalty served by Nick Beveley.
He gets two minutes for roughing, two minutes for the cross check.
Gary Howlett two minutes for roughing.
Pete Stamkowski the game misconduct.
He was the third man in the fight.
So he's out for the remainder of the game.
However there's no loss of personnel on the ice.
So the Islanders are going to come out of this thing with a man advantage.
And that's the most important thing.
Well they may come out of it with even more than that Don.
Because we've seen Billy Smith get involved in these kinds of things.
And I don't believe a goaltender who gets involved in fighting is truly concentrating on being a goaltender.
I know Smithy usually gets involved in games when the Islanders are either way up or way out.
And the Rangers right here you know can ill afford to give up another goal.
Jakobman has been brought in out of the bullpen to stem the tide.
The first thing he does is get involved in a scrap.
Gary who I've known Gary a while and Gary let's say to be truthful has provoked on occasion.
But in that particular situation Gary Howlett was very very innocent.
He was skating away from Jakobman.
Jakobman came out of the crease to cross check him.
That was the first two minute roughing call.
Gary just stepped around looked at Jakobman.
Jakobman threw at least one or two punches.
And Gary really made no effort to hit the goaltender.
Alright ready for the draw now outside the Rangers line.
It's a four on four situation for two minutes.
Then the Islanders are going to get the man advantage for the other two minutes.
On the puck Ron Harris.
Cross the line left wing.
Harris with the puck it's offside.
Face off in the neutral zone at center right outside the Islanders line.
Two fifteen to go second period.
Islanders out front three nothing.
First period goal by Clark Gulley second period.
Dennis Potman has a power play goal and a short handed goal.
He has been brilliant tonight.
On the draw in the corner of the left of Billy Smith.
Bert Marshall banks it around the board.
John Potman's got it.
John trying to get it out.
Wheels to the right of his goaltender.
Goes to Marshall back to John Potman.
John up on the right wing off the stick of Jude drawing.
Goes back to the puck.
So does Harris.
It's in back of the net.
We're into two minutes to go now in the second period.
DeJohn Ritale right back to Brad Park.
Park comes out up the middle.
Center right.
Park coming across the line right wing.
Park with the puck.
Park still controlling.
Wheeling.
Park to Harris.
Right point.
Shot wide.
And the caram rolls all the way out to center right.
Minute and a half to go in the second period.
And we have a minute to go on the penalty to Hallett before the Islanders get the man advantage.
And the puck fired in the Islanders.
And Burt Marshall has it.
Burt in back of the net.
Jill Baer is forechecking.
Burt now trying to get it out.
Burt with it up on the left wing off the board.
Jude drawing with the puck.
Center right.
Jude coming across the line down the middle.
Jude drawing.
Trying to move around Ron Harris.
Still has the puck.
Knocked away by Jackaman.
And Brad Park has it.
Minute to go in the second period.
Three nothing Islanders.
Jackaman just moves the puck in back of the net.
Thirty seconds to go on the penalty to Gary Hallett.
And then the Islanders will have a man advantage.
Eddie Westfall has the puck.
He steals it on the right wing.
Eddie loses to Sean Rattell.
Rattell coming back.
Back past to Brad Park.
Park brings it out.
Center right.
Park.
Across the line.
Drop pass Harris.
Down the middle.
Jude shot.
Made by Billy Smith.
And the puck is battled for.
Dennis Puckman clears.
Gillies collect.
Two on one.
Clark shoots.
Knocked down.
The shot up over the net.
Hit the top of the crossbar.
It greens it.
And the Islanders now have a man advantage.
As Hallett's penalty is up.
On the puck.
Burt Marshall goes to his right.
Dennis Puckman to Westfall.
Eddie to Hallett.
Left wing.
Gillies shoot.
A save and a beauty by Jackaman.
Out front.
Deflected away.
Marshall with it.
Burt shot.
Blocked.
Eddie Westfall keeps it in.
And that ought to do it for the period.
And that's it.
At the end of two full periods of play.
The Islanders lead 3-0.
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With the Islanders leading 1-0, Dennis Potvan picked up a power play goal from John Potvan and Bob Nice from an 8.26 to make it 2-0.
And then Dennis Potvan, a shorthanded goal, his second of the playoffs from Lauren Henning at 12.51, made it 3-0.
Shots on goal, 13 for the Islanders, 11 for the Rangers in the second period.
The Rangers have outshot the Islanders 26-21 at the 2 period.
Intermission highlights are next on New York Islanders hockey.
3-0 Islanders will be back in a moment.
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This is Jim Garvey at Madison Square Garden with a score after two periods of play.
The New York Rangers no score and the New York Islanders 3.
Yes, that's right. It's the New York Islanders 3 and the Rangers no score,
and what has to be considered quite an upset in the making here at the Garden tonight.
Certainly a pleasure for me to welcome to our Islander Highlights program here.
An old friend, a fellow who is probably better known to a lot of our listeners out there,
is the voice of the New York Yankees, the scooter, Phil Rizzuto. And Phil, welcome.
Jim, thank you very much. And this is one of the most exciting games I believe I've seen.
Of course, they're all exciting when they're fighting to get in the final to the Stanley Cup,
but what impresses me is the fact that the Islanders are outplaying the Rangers so much
that it looks like the Islanders have more men on the ice.
Well, Phil, it certainly does. And I think you made a very perceptive comment as an athlete would
while we were off the air here. And I think I'd like to ask you again
what you think is making a difference in this skating ability.
And I think I'll let you tell our fans.
Well, Jim, it looks to me like the Rangers don't have the youth that the Islanders have,
and those young legs have just caught up and passed the Rangers now,
and they're playing so much better hockey.
It seems like they've had more two-on-ones and three-on-ones than the Rangers have had in the whole ballgame.
Well, Phil, I couldn't agree with you more. As we finished that second period with the Islanders on the manpower advantage,
they came in three-on-one again. And except for some sparkling work by Giacomon in the Ranger cage,
it could be 4-0 right now.
It certainly could. You know, it was interesting, Jim, because you were telling me about Billy Smith and Nets,
and I've only seen the Islanders two other times in person, never against the Rangers.
I've seen them on TV a lot.
But it seems like, as you mentioned, if Billy Smith stops the first few hard shots at him, he's tough,
and I don't see how they can get one by him.
And it almost looks like he's got a magnet in his whole body to attract that puck.
Boy, it sure does. You know, Phil, earlier in the season, right here in this very building,
Billy Smith was victimized by three early goals in the first 0-4 minutes of a hockey game with the Rangers.
They came out from the blue line. They were scored by Jil Marat, Beverly, you know,
fellows who don't usually score. They were long drives.
And I think Billy was a little shell-shocked for about two weeks,
and Coach Al Arbor really didn't use him in this building again.
Glenn Resch was playing all the Ranger games, in fact, doing pretty well until last night.
And this was quite a startling revelation to a lot of the hockey people here who really expected Resch to be in the cage.
Al Arbor went out on a limb, but gee, Al Arbor's been doing that all year,
and that's why he's the NHL Coach of the Year, and in my book, he's the coach of the lifetime for the Islanders,
because he came right back in here with Billy Smith, and as you call it, Billy looks like he's unbeatable here tonight.
Well, you know, you've got to give Arbor a lot of credit.
There are a lot of coaches, and I know, that have cracked under the strain a lot less than Al is going through,
but he must be instilling a lot of confidence in this club.
The Potvin brothers, John and Dennis, of course Dennis has two goals tonight, one on a deflection on a shot by his brother,
but he's such a tough kid, and such an outstanding player to be that young,
that I think I heard a couple interviews with the Islanders after they beat the Rangers in that first game,
said that in prior games they had played against the Rangers, they were so in awe of the Rangers,
you know, they had read about them, and here they were playing against them, but after that first game,
they kind of got their feet wet, it's just like a ball player in a World Series, you're nervous until the game starts,
and now they're playing them, well, better than even up, and I'm sure the Islander fans are very happy.
Well, Philly, and all the way the schedule maker came through this season,
the Islanders and Rangers met twice during the last week of the regular season,
both of those were big games as the two clubs finished with identical point totals of 88.
Many folks felt that this was a fluke, the Rangers were given the odd game in the Garden because of more wins,
and the Rangers had never been defeated by the Islanders in Madison Square Garden
in the three years of existence that these two teams have played games,
so that last game, while it really didn't matter too much in the final overall standing,
I think psychologically gave this Islander club a big lift when they knew they could beat this club in this building.
That's got a lot to do with getting confidence, just playing that game and knowing what they can do and what their potential is,
and as soon as they loosen up, they're playing excellent hockey.
I'd like to see, you know, I can't figure out, you and Dom were trying to tell me who will play who if the Islanders do win this game,
but I guess to the Islanders it doesn't matter too much,
except that if they do have to go against my crew, it'll be a lot tougher than going against some of the other clubs.
Right, and I'm sure Phil, the same confusion that you had and I had is certainly going through the minds of our listeners out there,
and I'll try to bring you up to date here very briefly.
If the Islanders are successful in holding this lead here tonight,
who they play will be contingent upon the game between the L.A. Kings and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Chicago Blackhawks, the late Tuners in, have already defeated the Boston Bruins up in Boston by a 6-4 count,
so if the L.A. Kings defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs, it'll be the Islanders in Montreal.
If on the other hand the Toronto Maple Leafs are successful up there,
it will be the Islanders in Pittsburgh, certainly a better draw for the Islanders,
so I'm sure Islander fans in addition to rooting for their own clubs are rooting for the Maple Leafs out on the coast.
Well, I'm sure they are because it means an awful lot,
because if they can get by Pittsburgh, then that means they would be in the finals of the Stanley Cup?
Well, that's about it, Phil. Wouldn't that be something?
Oh, that'd be unbelievable, and New York deserves one team in the finals this year.
Of course, they've got the Nets over there who always seem to do well.
The Knicks are struggling very badly, and the Yankees and the Nets,
it's too long a season to tell what's going to happen,
but it's been too long outside of the Nets for a New York team not to win some kind of a championship.
Well, Phil, you know, you certainly have the shortstop and a great Yankee club that probably was the club I idolized most when I grew up.
I know a great deal about that, and we are certainly happy to have you and the Yankees on WMCA,
and you know, you're one of us now. Let's talk a little baseball if we would for a couple of minutes.
The Catfish went today, and from what you were telling me, except for a couple of bad pitches, he pitched a pretty creditable game.
He did. At one point he retired 13 men in a row, but as I said, he made two bad pitches,
one of them to Willie Horton in the first inning with a man on that.
Willie hit out in the Flushing Bay, and then in the sixth inning, he walked his first man of the ballgame.
That always is trouble for a good control pitcher.
Another man got on on a base hit, and then he groove one, just got it up a little too high to Nate Colbert,
who the Tigers got from San Diego, and he hit it out in the bullpen in left field, and five runs, all of them on home is, were just enough.
And then Mickey Lowlis, who had been struggling, had the bases loaded, nobody out.
They brought in John Hiller, pitched a Bobby Bonds, bases loaded, and nobody out.
We didn't score. He struck Bonds out, and Bob Oliver hit into a double play.
Well, Hiller's one of the best coming out of the bullpen, and it's obvious that he's in midseason form,
but, Bill, you know, it's early in the season, and, you know, you pick up the newspapers,
and you see the Yankees have dropped their first two games, and people are wondering what's wrong with the Yankees.
I know they've had some nagging injuries. I've been reading that Elliott Maddox, Roy White, have had some injuries.
And I know gripping that bat in the cold weather can't help when you have some injuries.
No, absolutely not. But I've said it's something.
Jim, you and Dom, after doing a game here, if you had to do a baseball game, it'd be like a picnic.
I have always contended, and I've never gotten an argument, that you get more for your money
watching a hockey game than any other sport. It's the fastest game I know, with continuous action all the time.
And I don't think there's any better place to be if you want excitement than at a hockey game.
Well, coming from Phil Rizzuto, who's certainly an accomplished golfer, a great baseball player,
and an avid sportsman in every sport, football, basketball, and the like, I think that's a great compliment to hockey.
And Phil, I've been involved in all of those myself a little bit, and I couldn't agree with you more.
It's my first year here with the Islanders, and it's been one of the most pleasant years I've ever had,
I think, coming to the games, getting to know these young players and the coaches and the fans, I think, have made it great.
But the game of hockey is just, here you have a game, it's 3-0.
In some other sports, you know, you take a big lead into the closing moments, and it's everybody's out for air, you know.
And this one, I expect to see the Rangers come out flying, because there's no tomorrow.
That's true, and of course it's nice to be on a winter too, Jim.
It makes the games you're doing so much more exciting, and the fans appreciate it so much more.
And you know, it's interesting, I was listening to you and Dom last night, and it wasn't that good a game because of so many fights.
But I tell you, you really got excited during those fights, and it was very funny and interesting listening to you describe the fights.
Oh, there it comes, and look at this. I was wishing I could see it on TV. We don't happen to have cable.
So I was listening to you and Dom, and it was exciting.
But tonight, I think it's got to be one of the best played hockey games that people in New York have had the privilege to watch.
Well, Phil, you know, after the game I met Frank Inavari, who was the Chief of Officials, and we had an animated discussion downstairs.
And Dom told me, he said, if Phil Rizzuto were here, your rating would be at least 126 Holy Cows.
Well, there's no doubt about it. Yeah, I say hockey is so exciting.
I mean, it's so interesting that there's continuous play, and you've got to be right on the ball all the time.
I'm amazed at the way Dom is able to handle it. I don't know whether you do any play-by-play, Jim, but I know you do the color very well and handle it very well.
But the play-by-play is so fast moving, and with the lines changing and everything, I mean, you've really got to be on the ball to keep track of all the players in the game.
Well, I think the Islanders have a find in Dom Valentino. He's not here to hear you and I, but after working with Dom for a whole season, Phil, he's a pro.
And in addition to that, I think he engenders in the game. He has a real interest in the game and in the club, and I think that's important.
He just doesn't come out here to kind of give a superficial effort to it. He's into every game. He does his homework before the games, and he's a real pro.
Well, he's doing the same thing in baseball with the Yankees, and I know he does it with the Nets, too, because I've heard him and been with him many times.
I think it's just great to have Dom with the Yankees, and of course, the Islander fans, I'm sure, are very happy.
Well, Phil, I'd like to wish you and the New York Yankees the best of luck, and I know that come October, we'll be bringing another championship home, an American League pennant.
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Thank you, Jim, very much.
Third period action is next on New York Islander hockey. We'll be back in a moment.
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The islanders leading three to nothing. We're ready to go now with the start of the third period.
The islanders have a man advantage for one minute, 34 seconds at the start of the period.
Billy Smith on the 8th Avenue side of Madison Square Garden.
And on the 7th Avenue side is Eddie Jackaman.
And the door is sprung open.
Now words are being exchanged, and we're going to do this again.
Eddie Westball skates off.
All right. Islanders trying to hang on now.
They lead at three nothing. The game is not over.
It's been a battle here at Madison Square Garden.
The draw goes to Jerry Heidt. Heidt's got it in the back of his own net.
All right. Now bringing it out. Up on the left wing it goes to Bourne. Bourne to Gillies.
Gillies shoots it in the Rangers end.
Jackaman knocks it away from Bob Bourne. Fairburn after the puck and he clears.
The puck goes around the boards and back of the islanders net.
Out in is Billy Smith. Smith now leasing him back for Dennis Potman.
Dennis has been great tonight. Two goals. Short-handed and a power play goal.
To Bob Bourne to Dennis. Dennis Potman down the middle.
Right wing, Bourne. Bourne right around Kachuk. Bourne centering pass.
And Kachuk is there to cut it off.
On the right wing it goes to Fairburn and Harris.
Nice to tie him up. And he does.
Billy Harris has a puck at his own line. Billy Wheeling.
Harris coming right back. Harris is dumped.
And the puck goes to Jackaman. Jackaman knocks it away.
Walt Kachuk has it. Walt Kachuk with it. Bringing it out.
Thirty seconds on the penalty. Kachuk with a puck.
Kachuk sends it back to Brad Park at his own line.
Twenty-five seconds on the penalty. To Gillies. Marat. Marat with it now.
Cross-ice to Park. Right back to Marat.
Hard drive. Pickup save by Billy Smith who goes sprawling on the ice.
Leaves it in back of the net. Ten seconds on the penalty.
Gary Hart with it. Gary now Wheeling. Sanderson after him.
Up on the left wing to Howard. Right back to Saint Laurent.
Andre with two seconds on the penalty.
Andre has it knocked off his stick. And Greschner's got the puck.
Beverly on the ice. Penalty now on the islanders.
For tripping. And the official time on the penalty now
is going to be one thirty-nine of the period.
And let's get the official call and these are going to hurt.
You just can't keep killing penalties all night. It's on Gary Howard.
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Ready now for the draw outside the islanders line.
The Rangers again now with a power play.
Gary Howard two minutes for tripping at one thirty-nine.
John Rattall and Eddie Westfall.
The puck is taken by Brad Park. Park in his own zone.
Goes cross-ice a bouncing puck to Jill Baer.
Jill Baer now starts back for the Rangers to Park.
Park loses it. Back on it is Vickers for the Rangers.
Vickers with it. To Rattall ahead of him.
Burt Marshall trying to get it out.
And it is kept in by Brad Park through Jill Baer.
Jill Baer right back to Park. Left.
Left point shot. Saved by Billy Smith.
Beautiful glove saved by Billy.
And we're down to one thirty-two to go on the penalty.
To Gary Howard.
The Rangers go on the power play. The guy you've got to look at is Steve Vickers.
Steve over forty goals this season.
Getting himself set up again in the left corner.
Middleton on the right corner.
So the Rangers have a lot of firepower out there this time.
Ready now for the face off.
It's in back of the net.
Burt Marshall slams it around the boards and clears.
Puck into the Rangers end.
Stopped by Jacobin in back of the net.
He leads it for Jill Baer.
Jill Baer now coming out.
Jill Baer flying to Rattall.
Knocks away. Puck loose.
And it is taken by Lewis who sends it back in the Rangers end.
It bounces to Jacobin.
Up on the right wing to Jill Baer.
Jill Baer with it.
Jill Baer up the middle.
Center right. Right wing. Middleton.
Middleton trying to split the defense.
Down the middle the shot. Saved by Smith.
Back to the left point.
Brad Park.
Park with a puck.
Left wing Vickers.
Vickers out front.
Knocked away by Smith.
Shot up over the net by Park.
It's at the right point.
Jill Baer.
Jill Baer with it.
To Brad Park at the left point.
Park with a puck.
To Middleton to the corner right of Billy Smith.
Out front.
Deflected away by Smith.
Jill Baer's got it.
And the shot is glove by Billy Smith.
32 seconds to go on the penalty.
To Gary Howell.
Islanders lead 3-0.
Well as Phil Rizzuto said during the second intermission.
Billy Smith just been like a magnet there in the Rangers.
In the island the goal.
Every Ranger shot just seems to be targeted at Billy.
He's used his body well.
He's used his glove well and his stick well.
And there are 32 seconds left in the penalty.
On the draw.
Huck is deflected around.
Dennis Potman with it.
Dennis cleared.
And it goes the full length of the ice.
Down to 20 seconds on the penalty.
To Gary Howell.
The Islanders short handed.
They lead 3-0.
16 and a half minutes to play in the game.
Rattell at the Islander line loses to Dennis Potman.
His pass for Eddie Westphal goes into the Rangers end.
5 seconds on the penalty now to Howell.
Cross ice to Jill Baer.
Jill Baer with it.
2 seconds.
He comes out.
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Howell on the ice.
Both teams at full strength.
And an offside on Kachuk coming down the middle.
There's a break in the action.
The Islanders lead 3-0.
We'll be back in a moment.
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The faceoff and Dennis Potman gets it into the Rangers' end.
On the puck now, Jill Barrett.
Both teams are at full strength.
We've got 16 minutes to play in the game.
Or in the third period we should say.
Sudden death if it's tied up.
Bob Bourne driven to the board.
Gillies has the puck.
He loses.
And it's taken by Greshner.
Greshner coming back.
Greshner across the line, right wing.
Hart rides him off.
Into the board.
And Dennis Potman fights for that puck.
Dennis has it.
Dennis is a strong skater now.
Starts to come back out.
Dennis gets it out to center right.
Billy Harris wanted to get it on the Islanders' side of the red line.
Then let it go and he couldn't.
It's in the Rangers' end.
Kachuk's got it.
Kachuk with it.
He leaves the puck for Billy Fairburn.
Fairburn with it at center right.
Coming down the middle.
Trying to split the defense.
He does.
Fairburn splits the defense and scores.
And it's 3-1.
The official time is 4.44 of the third period.
Well, great goal by Billy Fairburn.
Billy doing something to clock in.
He did here in the Garden in the third period on Tuesday night.
Just stepping right between the defensemen going in, pulling out Billy Smith,
peeking him, throwing him to the ice, and sliding the puck around him.
Great goal by Billy Fairburn.
His third of the playoffs.
Billy the all-time Ranger high scorer against the Islanders.
And we've got a hockey game.
And of course, Fairburn did what Clark Gillies did here Tuesday night.
And Clark's goal won it 3-2.
He split the defense.
Fairburn now has 10 career goals against the Islanders.
And this is going to perk up the Rangers, I'm sure.
As we said, this game is far from over.
On the draw, Dave Lewis to Bergmarschall.
Berg with the puck, back to Lewis.
Tips at it, Joe Baer's got it, Joe Druid takes it away.
Joe, center-right, fires it in the Rangers' end.
It rolls him back, Jackman stops it.
Leaves it for Urban.
Ted Urban comes out.
Urban center-right, shoots it wide on the Islanders' net.
Billy Smith waits for Vickers and clears it away.
Centering pass taken by Parisi.
J.P. coming back.
He's got Park with him.
J.P., the shot, scores!
And it's 4-1.
And now we have a wave off, no goal.
And it's an offside ball.
Oh man, that was a close one.
As J.P. lets go, a flat shot.
Now the Rangers fans are realizing, only now do they realize that it's no goal.
The fans now just realizing there's no goal.
It's offside.
So it's a 3-1.
14-42 to play in the third period.
The draw taken by Nick Beverly in back of his own net.
And of course these last minutes are going to be furious minutes.
Beverly coming out.
Up on the left wing for Vickers, deflected into the Islanders' end.
Bergmarschel with it, to Druid.
Jude on the left wing, intercepts it.
Joe Bear, the shot, deflected up in the air, batted by Lewis.
Lewis off the board.
Trying to keep it in, he does.
Taken by Lewis, the center right to Parisi.
He's across the line, left wing, down the middle.
His pass deflected.
Parisi, trying to keep the puck in the zone, he does.
To Joe Druid.
Druid is held up.
He's tied up in the corner.
And the puck is kept in by Lewis.
Lewis loses to Vickers, to Joe Bear, down the middle.
The puck is loose.
Vickers has it.
Vickers in the corner, the left of Billy Smith out front.
Knocked away by Bergmarschel.
And Joe Bear goes out to him.
Berg trying to move it around Vickers.
And he pins Vickers into the board.
And Joe Druid clears the puck, deflected by Marat into the Rangers' end.
13 and a half minutes to play in the third period.
Back comes Greshner and Flyes.
Greshner center right, coming down the middle.
Greshner, a little good shot.
And Jerry Hart knocks Paulus down.
And Bob Neistrom trying to get it out.
Jerry Hart after it.
A battle for that puck.
Dennis Puckman in.
Ka-choo!
Battling with Hart.
Hart's got it.
Hart banks it off the board.
And clears it a full length of the ice.
It'll be icing on the Islanders.
There's a break in the action.
3-1 Islanders.
We'll be back in a moment.
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Face-off to the left of Billy Smith at the Islanders' end.
The Islanders are leading 3-1.
Plenty of time remaining to play. 13-0-3.
Walt Kachuk facing off with Bourne.
The draw, Gillies.
Gillies gets it out center-right.
After now, Billy Harris pushes at it.
Knocked down.
And the puck is taken by Greshner to center-right.
To Kachuk.
Bourne after him to Greshner.
Greshner tees it up a shot.
Saved Billy Smith after the puck.
Gillies and Fairburners to center-right.
Kachuk back on it.
Kachuk with the puck goes to his left.
To Greshner.
Shoots to the corner of the left of Billy Smith.
And Jerry Hart has it.
Hart now having trouble handling the puck.
Leaves it for Dennis Potvan.
Up on the left wing to Gillies to center-right.
Marat has it.
Marat with the puck.
Marat shoots at the Islanders' end of the left of Billy Smith.
Clark Gillies on it.
Gillies sends it around the board.
And trying to keep it in, Pollard.
Dennis Potvan and Pollard go after it.
Dennis has the puck.
He's trying to get it out.
And Kachuk holds him up.
Pollard's on the puck.
After him now is Bourne.
Bourne kicking at it.
Dennis Potvan sends it around the board.
Gillies after it.
And he rolls it out to center-right.
And we're under 12 minutes to play in the third period.
Fairburn down the middle.
The shot.
And it is scooped up by Billy Smith.
And he hangs out on the puck.
And we'll have a face-off to the right of Billy and the Islanders' end.
Bobby Bourne again came very close to making a very dangerous mistake.
Bobby Bourne tried to pin the puck on the backboard.
No Ranger was playing him.
And if Bruce Hood wanted to be very, very technical,
he could have called Bourne for two minutes for delay of the game.
Bobby's going to have to sharpen up on that aspect of the game.
All set now for the draw.
To the right of Billy Smith and the Islanders' end.
3-1.
The Islanders are leading.
We've got 11.52 to go.
Third period.
Ready for the face-off to the right of Billy Smith.
The Islanders now, right now, are trying to hang on.
The Rangers are really pressing.
On the draw.
Burt Marshall around the board.
Gary Howard there trying to get it out.
And he does.
Nick Beverly's got the puck for the Rangers.
Taken by Saint Laurent.
Andre coming in.
The shot.
A save by Jackaman.
And the puck is collected by Sanderson.
Up on the right wing to Middleton.
Stolen by Saint Laurent.
Andre coming back.
Shoots it in the corner of Alexa Jackaman.
11.5 to go on the third period.
Beverly trying to get it out.
Kept in by Dave Lewis.
Brad Park fights for it.
Nice from Gutted.
Nice from Chicken At It.
Moves it around Park.
Nice from Left Point.
Lewis.
Lewis shoots.
Deflected.
Saint Laurent with it.
Back to Lewis.
Intercepted by Middleton.
To Ted Urban.
Urban coming across the line.
Left wing.
Urban with it.
The shot.
Deflected wide.
Gary Howard after the puck.
Gary trying to get it out.
He can't.
Brechner knocked down.
The puck is still in the Islanders' end.
And finally cleared by Lewis.
And it'll be icing again on the Islanders.
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There's a break in the action.
Three one Islanders will be back in a moment.
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Ready now for the face-off for the left of Billy Smith.
The New York Islanders leading three to one.
They were coasting along, but the goal by Billy Fairburn for the Rangers was a big lift and a big goal.
Three to one.
Gary Hart trying to get it out.
Kept in by Marat.
Dennis Puttman's got it.
And he goes down.
Ratel after the puck.
Jill Baer digging for it.
And Dennis ends up on top of the puck.
Now we're going to have a face-off coming up for the left of Billy Smith at the Islanders end.
And now Marat goes over to say something to Bruce Hood.
So does Jill Baer.
They thought that Dennis moved it in under his body.
Well, Don, after last night and some of the comments we made about the officiating,
I spoke to Frank Ibarri today and I want to say right now that the NHL staff here tonight, Armstrong, Stampanello, and Bruce Hood are doing a great job.
Excellent.
They really have control of the game.
On the draw, Gary Hart with it.
Gary trying to come out.
And he gets it out through center-right.
Eddie Westpaw is on it.
Eddie tees it up the shot wide.
Parisi can't get a shot out coming out of the left wing.
Hart sends it in the corner.
Drew it out to the puck.
Jill Baer trying to drag him down.
They both fight for it.
And the puck is still loose.
After it is Drew it.
And in after him is Marat.
Around the board, Westpaw, centering pass.
It's loose.
Brechner's got it for the Rangers.
He's in the corner of the right of his goaltender.
Close in back of the net.
Brechner holds the puck.
Up on the right wing it goes to Ritell.
Ritell with it.
We're into 10 minutes to play in the third period.
Ritell.
To Marat.
Back to Ritell.
Jerry Hart there.
Jerry gets it out to center-right.
It's tipped by Westpaw.
Into the Rangers end.
On the puck Marat.
Marat to Brechner.
Up ahead it goes to Ritell.
Ritell to Vickers.
Vickers out to the puck in the corner.
Centering pass.
Brechner shoots up over the net.
Gilly Smith didn't see it.
And Ritell centering pass wide.
Brewin' with it.
Jude having trouble getting it out.
Battle for that puck.
Dicks flying out to center-right.
And Gillies goes down.
Brewin' it goes down.
And the puck is taken to the Rangers line.
By Marat to Brechner.
Brechner with it.
Down the middle he goes.
To Kachuk.
Right back to Ted Urban.
Knocked away.
The puck kept in by Urban.
Dennis Plotman around the board.
Sir Clark Gillies.
Gillies goes down.
The puck loosened back.
Centering pass.
Mothered by Billy Smith.
And we've got a faceoff coming up.
To the left of Billy.
With 9-0.
Two to go.
Third period.
Three-one islanders.
Well after the goal by Fairburn, one might have expected the young islanders to panic a little bit.
But I don't think I've seen any of that.
I think the islanders have played very well.
Dennis Plotman-Dum I think is playing the finest defensive game I've ever seen Dennis play with the islanders.
He has two goals, but we've seen a lot of great offensive hockey from Dennis in his career.
But I think Jerry Hart and Dennis Plotman are playing as a tandem the best defensive game I've ever seen them play.
Of course Billy Smith is making them look good in the cage.
All set to go now with a draw.
To the left of Billy Smith.
Nine minutes.
A long way to go.
The puck battle for Lewis trying to get it out. Fairburn keeps it in.
Ted Urban after the puck.
Urban goes down.
Urban back on the puck.
Centering pass blocked by Borg.
Urban back on it.
Urban centering pass across the mouth of the goal.
Beveling to Kachuk the shot blocked by Lewis.
Kachuk with it.
Backhander to Fairburn.
The shot blocked by Lewis.
Lewis after the puck.
Fairburn keeps it in.
The Rangers are really pressing.
Centering pass across the mouth of the goal.
And the centering pass by Beverly is deflected by Billy Harris into the Islanders end.
On the puck Brad Park.
Park trying to come out of his own end.
Goes cross-eye.
Taken by Urban to Kachuk.
Kachuk with it.
Back of the right wing.
Fairburn.
Fairburn down the middle.
Urban ridden off.
Puck is loose.
And trying to get it out is how it need to center-eye.
And Billy Harris has a drop pass.
Don LaRonde shoots the save by Chakaman.
7.55 to go third period.
Sanderson with a puck and center-eye.
He sends it in the Islanders end.
And Andre Don LaRonde's got it.
Spanked it off the boys to center-eye.
Greshner on it.
Greshner with a puck.
Greshner to Polis coming down the middle.
The Middleton.
It slides in the corner of the right of Billy Smith.
Polis after it.
And after it also is Don LaRonde.
It's loose.
Digging for it now is Howitt.
So is Hart.
And Howitt's got it.
And he shoots it right to Chakaman on goal.
So there'll be no icing and Chakaman gets it back out to center-eye.
And the puck is at center-eye.
Taken by Middleton down the middle.
Middleton down he goes.
Finally on the Islanders.
So the Rangers will have a man advantage the official time 12.47 of the third period.
There's a break in the action.
Three-one Islanders will be back in a moment.
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They start coming up to the left of Billy Smith and the Islanders and the Rangers now with a power play.
And they've got one of the great ones.
Warren Henning clears the puck.
Eddie Chakaman stops it.
On the puck now is Rod Jobert who can fly.
He comes back to retell the Vickers left wing.
Vickers with it.
The back pass left point part.
Park with a puck on the left wing to Vickers.
In the slot, needs Jobert right wing, Middleton shoots.
A save.
And spat it into the crowd by Billy Smith.
It's deflected up in the air.
And like a baseball bat, he hit it just right and rammed it into the crowd.
We'll try to keep you abreast of the clock as it winds down here, 6.47 to go in the game and 1.34 to go in the period.
Of course the Islanders brought a three goal lead into the period.
They've been really sitting on this lead playing excellent defense.
And this could be the key point in the hockey game with the Rangers on the power play.
Retell's done a great job on face-offs and here's a big one.
1.34 to go on the penalty.
Eddie Westphal, John Retell.
The puck down. It's in the corner.
Did he let the Billy Smith?
Lewis tied up and he tried to bank it off the glass and it goes into the crowd.
So the face-off will be to the right of Billy Smith this time.
And only four seconds was used up.
6.43 to go in the game. 3-1 Islanders.
That was unfortunate as Lewis had an opportunity to clear the puck and ended up throwing it up in the crowd.
Now they'll do it again.
Ready now for the draw and back of the Islanders net.
Lewis again fighting for it.
It's loose.
Back to the left point.
Parked left wing.
Vickers with it.
Out front.
Score!
It's 3-2.
It was kept in by Fairburn again.
He's had two goals tonight and he has 11 career goals.
3-2. 6.33 to go.
Third period.
Well, we called it for you.
It's just the way the Rangers have set up all their other goals.
Billy Fairburn breaking down the crease and managing to deflect that puck high up in the net.
Billy Smith's looking a little down right now as Jerry Hart goes back to talk to him.
6.33 to go in the game.
The Rangers are coming on and the Islanders are going to have to really tighten up here in this hockey game.
When one thinks back to the goal that was disallowed, the goal by JP Parisi, the fourth goal the Islanders would have had,
but that was called back to the offside.
It's got to be a big goal as the Ranger fans are now littering the ice with debris and we're going to have a delay here in the hockey game.
Well, right now the Islanders are going to try to stem that momentum, that overused word that is so important.
The official time of the goal is 13 minutes and 27 seconds of the third period.
Fairburn's fourth goal of the playoff.
He has had two games, two goals last night, two goals here tonight.
11 career goals against the Islanders.
On the draw, Nick Beverly, he goes to Brad Park.
Vickers and Park get an assist.
Park shoots to the Islanders and Billy Smith banks it off the board.
Jill Baird keeps it in.
To Ritale, outside, ball!
Vickers ties it up.
And it's all tied up 3-3.
Well, you can see that one coming.
The Rangers have everything going for them now.
It's like the ice has a tilt in it as the garbage man kill wild.
Steve Vickers scores again from the position where Vickers is always so dangerous right on the doorstep.
As Ed Westwell obviously too good about hitting that puck with a high stick, which Jill Baird did.
And now the Garden fans are simply littering the ice with all kinds of screeners as the hockey games have been tied up.
13-41, the official time of the goal.
Steve Vickers ties it up on a deflection.
The Islanders have been trying to play the lead, and of course it's always risky when you do that,
instead of keeping their own momentum going.
Remember that if it ends up tied at the end of regulation time, we will go into sudden death overtime.
There will be a winner tonight.
down the feet.
New York Rangers start to go into a shell now that they've tied it up, or they continue with this all-out assault on the Island Decade.
Certainly Billy Smith cannot be faulted on any of the goals, all three coming right on the doorstep.
A battle for the puck taken by Rattell to Jill Baird.
Shoots to the Islanders end, Vickers after it, and it is icing on the Rangers.
The puck will be brought back and we'll have a face-off in the New York Rangers end to the right of Eddie Jacobin.
Well, John Rattell and Roger Baird get a first and John Rattell's some kind of hockey player in the clutch.
Rangers coming in three goals down on the brink of oblivion. They battle back now and tie the score.
Steve Vickers second of the playoff from Rattell and Jill Baird at 13-41.
That's the equalizer at this moment.
Jill Baird has the draw.
Center right.
Stopped at center right by Parisi.
And JP backs him against the board.
And Park moves in with drone, and we're going to have a face-off at center right.
And of course the line that just did all the work gets a big hand from the crowd.
Well, the Garden crowd is on F.D. standing as this line comes off and well they might.
Just a tremendous effort by the Jill Baird, Rattell, Steve Vickers combination.
The crowd now takes up a chance of Eddie for Ed Jacobin who came in in the second period replacing Jill Villamur.
And has been equal to every shot down as a drone at him although in truth here in the third period,
Downers have had very few shots on goal.
Alright, we're ready to go. Bob Boyne, Walt Kachuk ready for the draw.
Bruce Hood, the referee who's done an outstanding job handling the game.
On the draw.
Taken by Marat to his right, the Greshner.
Up on the right wing it goes to Fairburn.
To Kachuk, he's stopped and the puck is loose.
The center right to Billy Harris. Billy coming in right wing.
Billy shoots, knocked down by Jacobin.
Centering pass to Gilley, Clark, sends it to the corner to the right of Jacobin.
Marat's got it. Marat for the Rangers out to his own line to Kachuk.
Walt Kachuk to Urban. Ken Urban has it knocked out of his stick.
He stops at the left point area. The shot is saved by Smith.
The Greshner's got it. He shoots and it's deflected wide.
And in the corner to the right of Billy Smith.
Burke Marshall sends it around the board.
Fairburn's got it. He rolls it in back.
Burke Marshall fires it around the board and Gilley clears it.
And it goes to the full length of the ice.
And it'll be icing on the Islanders.
Face off to the left of Billy Smith and the Islanders end.
Well that's not going to do it to the Islanders.
Simply clearing the puck down the other end taking icing off.
Brings the face off all the way back in the Islander end.
The Islanders are going to have to do something that's very, very hard to do.
Once they've lost their momentum, regenerate it, get it together,
start clearing the puck as they did earlier in the hockey game,
and start to assault Jacobin in the cage.
Billy Harris had a good shot on goal and Jacobin came up big.
Ready to have it a face off to the left of Billy Smith.
Burke Marshall to Lewis to Howard and he clears it.
Into the Rangers end. Nick Beverly on it.
To Middleton behind him.
Taken by Howlett to Nystrom.
Bobby Nystrom to Howlett behind him.
Knocked away. Park got it.
Three on two. Park right wing.
To Middleton. Middleton ridden off.
Lewis has the puck. Lewis sends it around the board.
And it is kept in by Pullis.
In the back of the net Sanderson out front.
Park backhander. Knocked down smothered by Billy Smith.
Great save by Billy Smith.
Raleigh Ranger point men.
Have come all the way into the circle.
Dom the Rangers are throwing caution to the wind.
Their points have come all the way into the top of the circle.
They're going all out here for the win.
Well there's no tomorrow Jim. You gotta do it now.
And of course this crowd has really come to life.
Just a tremendous hockey game.
Whoever wins it, it has been some kind of a game tonight.
Well Mr. Magic, John Rattell is on for the Rangers so he's tough.
Ready now for the draw.
On the puck. Taken by Jerry Hart.
Jerry to his right to West Ball.
And he brings it out.
And he's center-right.
Shoots to the corner of the right of Jackaman.
Eddie Jackaman moves it in back.
Collected on the move by Joe Baer.
He's coming right back. Center-right.
His pass and center for Rattell. Wide of the mark.
And Jerry Hart has it.
Hart trying to knock it away.
Deflect. Almost went on Vickers' stick.
Up to Gruen.
Jude loses to Hart.
Back of the left wing. Vickers coming in.
Vickers down the middle.
And by Joe Baer.
He's coming right back. Center-right.
His pass and center for Rattell. Wide of the mark.
And Jerry Hart has it.
Hart trying to knock it away.
Deflect. Almost went on Vickers' stick.
Up to Gruen.
Jude loses to Hart.
Back of the left wing. Vickers coming in.
Vickers down the middle.
And the centering pass is deflected wide.
And we got...
Bruce Hood now rushing in there.
As the puck is smothered by Billy Smith.
Well, this is Stanley Cup action at its finest.
End-to-end action.
And if we can maintain our composure and our voices up here,
we'll bring you the rest of this one because
this is going to be a fight to the finish.
Ready now for the draw.
To the left of Billy Smith at the Islanders' end.
The Islanders are tied with the Rangers.
3-3. The Islanders lead 3-0 coming into the period.
The Rangers have caught the Islanders.
Eddie Westfall. John Rattell.
Eddie wins the draw.
Taken by Jerry Hart. Moves it to the left of Billy Smith.
Then his pot fans got it.
In front of the net it goes to Jerry Hart.
Out to his own line to Eddie Westfall.
Eddie with it.
The Red Line shoots it in. Stopped by Jacob and him back.
He moves it away from Jude Druin.
And the puck comes to center-right.
Rattell has it.
The Vickers across the line. Left wing, right wing.
Joe Baer shoots. Up over the net.
After the puck is Westfall.
Eddie now.
Cut in front of his own net.
Off the left wing board.
To Hart. Jerry Hart coming out.
Jerry. Center-right. Hart.
Rolls it to the Rangers' end.
Joe Baer's got it. 3-0-5 to go.
The Red Barriers. 3-3.
To Vickers. Vickers at center-right.
Vickers across the line. Left wing.
On the right wing. Knocked away.
Rattell back on it. His pass.
And it is kept in. Taken by Marshall.
Marshall up on the right wing. Billy Harris.
Billy. Trying to move around.
Beverly. Billy.
Centering pass. Knocked away.
Burt Marshall in from the right point. Trying to hold it in.
And he can't.
Kachuk's got it. Kachuk.
To Beverly. Back to Kachuk.
Billy. Knocked away.
Kruechner on the puck. Knocked down.
The crowd thought there should have been a penalty.
And there isn't.
And Clark Gillies clears it.
And we got icing coming up on the Islanders.
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Two games to one.
And the young spirits have come on strong.
On the draw.
Puck loose.
Taken by Billy Harris.
To Gillies off his skate.
Marat's got it. Those cross eyes.
Marat to Kruechner.
Shoots in the Islanders end. Billy Smith is there.
Leaves the puck for Lewis.
Lewis and Kachuk now holding him up.
Around the boards to board.
Knocked away.
Puck loose. In front.
Deflected. Right across him. Out of the goal.
Billy Harris has it. Billy coming back.
Marat back with him.
Billy is knocked down.
And the puck is taken for the Rangers by Billy Fairburn.
Fairburn center-right left wing urban.
Urban trying to go around Burt Marshall.
Burt rides him into the boards.
He goes down.
The puck kicked at.
Burt Marshall after it.
Trying to move the puck up to Billy Harris.
He does. To center-right.
And the board.
Loses to Kruechner. Kruechner knocked down.
Battle for that puck at center-right.
We got a minute twenty to go. Third period to park.
Poked by Burt Marshall.
And it's back to the Rangers line.
Steve Vickers on the puck. The Islanders change of the fly.
Marshall to Parisi.
Left wing ruined.
Jules is knocked down.
West ball after the puck.
Vickers has it.
Up on the left wing to Rachel.
Rachel's cross-ice knocked down.
Jill Baer down the middle.
Drop pass. Vickers shoots.
A save by Smith. And a beauty.
Dennis Potbann's got it.
He gets to the center-right.
To Kruechner.
Jules sends it to the Rangers end.
Forty seconds to go in the third period.
Back to center-right.
Dennis Potbann to Jerry Hart.
Hart to Parisi to Kruechner.
The shot on the right wing.
West ball.
Eddie out front.
Blocked.
The puck is jammed against the boys.
And we're going to have a faceoff with 32 seconds to go in the third period.
Well, Donald, I have only one wish in this hockey game.
And that wish being that the goal that decides this game be a good clean goal.
I think these are two great clubs.
They've battled evenly all year long.
They both finished with 88 points.
Here we come down to the final 32 seconds.
One game apiece.
3-3 on the scoreboard.
And I hope the goal that wins it is a beauty.
Thirty-two seconds to go.
Second period.
Then we go into sudden death overtime if nobody scores in the next 32 seconds.
Tremendous hockey action.
This is one of the finest games I think I've ever seen or done.
Just great.
On the draw.
Sondler on.
Shoot.
Saved by Chackabin.
He pushes it in back.
Brad Park's got it.
Park up on the right wing to Sanderson.
The Rangers rushing now.
The shot is wider than that.
Centering pass Butler.
Sanderson on the right wing.
Back to Park.
Knocked away.
Howitz got it.
Gary bringing it out.
To Nystrom.
Seven seconds.
Nystrom with it.
Looses to Urban.
Dennis Potman on it.
Dennis left wing.
Howitz with a puck.
That's it.
That's the end of the third period.
And at the end of three full periods of play, it is 3-3.
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We're in Madison Square Garden, where after three periods of regulation play,
it's the New York Islanders three and the New York Rangers three.
The New York Islanders came into the third period with a 3-0 lead,
appeared to be coasting along fairly evenly when at 444, Bill Fairburn got his third goal of the playoffs from Kachuk and Greshner,
and it was 3-1.
That goal seemed to spark the Rangers, it certainly sparked the crowd,
and the Rangers came back with Zim and Vigor.
And shortly thereafter, Jerry Hart was penalized for hooking at 1247.
The Ranger power play, which had been blunted during this hockey game,
an outstanding power play during the playoffs and during the regular season, came to life.
And at 1327, Bill Fairburn got his second consecutive goal, skating down at the goal mouth on assists from Vickers and Park, and it was 3-2.
At that point, the crowd was roaring.
It appeared only a matter of moments before the Rangers would tie it,
and some 14 seconds later, at 1341, Steve Vickers scored again from the goal mouth.
All three Ranger goals coming on fairly similar type plays, Fairburn's two and Vickers' third tying goal from Retell and Gilbert.
Over the last six and a half minutes, the clubs battled with the Rangers getting perhaps the best chances,
controlling the puck in the Islander end, Billy Smith being called upon time and time again to make saves to keep the Rangers off the board.
To give you an idea about the third period and how one-sided it was, shots on goal, which are sometimes not indicative,
but in this case, I think truly reflect the type of action we had, the New York Islanders managed only four shots on goal,
and two of those four coming after the score had been tied.
The Rangers, on the other hand, came up with 14 shots on goal, out shooting the Islanders 14 to 4, for a total of 40 shots on goal to the Islanders 24.
Well, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the proceedings right now, the ice has been cleared, the Zamboni machine is on,
we have a regular 15-minute intermission, in which time the ice will be cleaned, the players will be refreshed,
and we will come out to play sudden death overtime, sudden death overtime, perhaps the most exciting moment in athletics,
when it's two teams on the ice, knowing that the next goal determines the game, the winner moves on, the loser departs.
Sitting up here with me, as he's been for most of the games during the playoffs, the voice of the Washington Capitals, Ron Weber.
Ron, it's a pleasure to have you up here with us.
Thank you, Jim, very much, a pleasure to be here, and boy, am I going to enjoy the fourth period, I haven't seen one, of course, all year,
and the final score of this game is 4-3, or will be, and don't we wonder who it's going to be?
Well, you know, Ron, being up in the Islanders playoff season, and of course, keeping close tabs on the Rangers as well,
it's almost incredible to think that after 80 games in the regular season, the clubs end up 88 points apiece,
after three games of Stanley Cup action, the clubs end up a game apiece, 3-3 here, and how close can you get?
You know, and of course, I think more to the Islanders' credit, certainly the Rangers have more talent on their hockey club,
and certainly they have a lot, lot more experience, not only experience in years, but experience in the playoffs.
Ed Jockerman, I believe, is playing his 65th Stanley Cup game tonight, I don't know how many Billy Smiths have been in,
but it can't be more than a handful, and I know for a fact, of course, Glenn Resch had not played any before Tuesday.
Right. You know, while the Islanders had the three-goal lead, they had opportunities to put this game away.
Andre Sanlaron hit the crossbar, Nystrom hit the goal post, and I guess the one that really had to hurt right after Fairburn had scored,
upping the count to 3-1, the drawing Westfall-Perisi line, come over the blue line, and J.P. Perisi let go a flat shot,
that beat Jockerman, and for an instant, it appeared as though the Islanders had taken a 4-1 lead.
Yeah, I think the offside call was a good one, but it was awful, awful close,
and I can see Islander partisans being visibly upset by that, no two ways about it.
It is going to be too bad that one team, somewhere along tonight, or by early morning, is going to be out of this thing,
because they both really deserve to continue the way they play.
The Islanders were playing up to, I still have got to think, a better hockey club, and of course, the Rangers, from coming back,
because they were certainly staring defeat in the place, and even the ignominy of a shutout on their own home ice in their last game of the season.
Billy Smith was superb in the first period, I have not seen better goaltending over a 20-minute stretch in this entire season,
any game that I have watched, and of course, I saw the Capitals play 80, and when I could, I took a busman's holiday,
and I guess I picked up another dozen or so along the way.
Fairburn, of course, with a couple of goals, a couple of nights running, is to be credited,
and Vickers, who scored the tying goal, I think on a fluke, as I saw it, went off the blade of Dennis Plotman's stick,
but nevertheless, he earned a point just before that when he centered a perfect one for Fairburn to block in.
So, the Rangers have had their heroes, the Rangers have had to overcome a change in goaltenders, and they gave misconduct to Pete Stemkowski,
and in fact, if the Rangers had not come back and tied this game, I think the onus might have been on Jockeman,
who lost his temper at a very critical time when he slashed Gary Howlett repeatedly, and I think he was lucky that Howlett even went off at all.
It could have been, the Rangers could have been shorthanded for four long minutes, as it was, he got the double minor to Jockeman,
and Howlett, who showed restraint, which is unusual for him, got two, and really, a little different view could have let him get away scot-free,
and certainly, Howlett would like to punch the Silver Fox back, but I think he was thinking what the score was and how important it was.
Well, I commented on the air that last night we discussed the officiating at length, tonight I thought the officiating by Bruce Hood and his crew has been excellent,
but on that particular play, as I saw it, I don't know how you saw it, Ron, Howlett actually lifted his hands up, almost in a pose of surrender,
to avoid hitting Jockeman, and just backskated, absorbing a couple of shots from Eddie Jockeman.
Yeah, I think at the same time, though, he was giving him a lot of lip, because it looked to me like all of a sudden, you can't look behind the mask, of course,
but Jockeman jumped at him, and I think that Howlett was goading him, of course, if you can do that, that's to the player's credit,
but although Howlett physically wasn't trying to enter in the thing, I think he was hoping Jockeman would come piling in at him,
and after thinking that a goalie in a fight is rather rare, we've had two and two nights now, one for each side.
I thought the turning point in the hockey game, Ron, in the third period was not the fair-baring goal,
because the Islanders then killed about ten minutes of the period, and had a 3-1 lead with seven minutes to go.
As soon as the call was made to Jerry Hart, I felt at that point, I said to Don Valentino,
you just don't keep this power play off the board forever, I thought that was the turning point in the hockey game.
I'd agree with you, and of course, that's the one Vickers made the fine center that Fairburn blocked in, and that gave him the impetus.
You're right, Fairburn had scored, and Broken Smith shut out, but it didn't really seem like the Rangers,
it didn't seem like the Islanders were rocked back by that at all, and it was still 3-1 their favor.
In fact, Fairburn built that play, there were two assists handed out to Greshner and Kachuk at 4-44,
but really Fairburn made that all the way down himself. He really soloed, and he sashayed down the middle.
It was a fine individual effort, but I sometimes think an individual effort like that doesn't automatically spur a team on as much as some good team play would have been.
Absolutely, I don't think Billy Smith could have been faulted on any of the goals.
The Rangers seem to have a penchant for coming up with that goal at the goal mouth.
I think Vickers and Fairburn are the two best at it, Ricky Middleton is pretty good as well.
They just always have a guy on that power play at the corner, and that's where you get those goals.
You know, talking about Middleton, I think you would have to agree with me.
If Middleton had not had that serious injury, what, December, January, along in there, and missed a couple of months,
I had to feel he'd have added at least a point to the Rangers' standings, and they would have finished ahead of the Islanders,
because even now Middleton is only a spot player, and if he had not had that leg injury, he'd be a regular and a real scorer for them,
where now he's not really been a factor in these playoffs.
Well, I had the feeling early in the season that Rick Middleton perhaps had the inside track on the Rookie of the Year award.
I think he has marvelous talent, tremendous shiftiness, he's a great skater, and he's certainly going to add to the Rangers' offense over the next season to come.
Ryan, as I sit here thinking about this first Sudden Death overtime game, which we'll be witnessing,
I stated with three minutes to go in the game, and I'll repeat it now, that I really have only one wish,
that the goal of the side of this game not be a fluke, but be a clean goal, scored by one of two great teams.
That's right. How long ago was it when you first thought, gee, I just hope sometime we get into an overtime,
because then you knew the Isleman would be in the playoffs.
It's something I'm, of course, looking forward to as a capital announcer, and I hope it isn't too many eons away.
I want to broadcast an overtime game. Of course, I'd like to see them put it in in regular season type,
not play all night, but play an extra ten minutes. That would cut the ties in half and a little bit better, probably.
And I think it would be good, as to that old saying about, oh, well, both teams will just lay back in the overtime.
Well, baloney, they'd do that in the third period of regular season games now, especially the visiting team.
So it would just mean that old shell game would start a little later,
because they know they would not only have to waste away the rest of the third period, but an extra ten minutes as well.
So I wish they I was hoping. I think it's bad for hockey overall. The W.A.J. came into a into being.
But I was hoping that maybe one good effect out of it was the NHL would start to be forced into reinstating an overtime,
which they took out in 1940 something because of Second World War transportation problems.
Well, you know, I couldn't agree with you more, Ron.
I think that the one thing that expansion has done in creating new leagues in both the basketball group with the ABA and the AFL
when it came into being in football and now the World Hockey League,
I think it's the people who set up these leagues a little more progressive in their thinking because they really don't have an established product.
And if you moved them to appeal to the fans, I think the game basically is set up for the fans.
I know sometimes an overtime would be a little difficult for players and coaches,
but I think the salary levels of business to such a degree and the fans are paying good money.
And I think that we ought to be catering a little bit more to the fans.
And I think the fans have definitely proven in the World Hockey League that they love the overtime.
I can't think of a more thrilling moment in sports than a sudden death of overtime in any sport.
You know, if I were a player and you're in your career, you're going to be an X number of overtime.
You'll probably lose as many as you win. I wouldn't want to play an extra ten minutes either.
It's a hard demanding sport. I'd rather just call it a tie and go home.
But, you know, the fans want it and I think it's fair.
Now, I'm not against ties in football.
I'm against them putting in tiebreakers in the National Football League like they've done
because a tie in a football game is a rarity, but it isn't in hockey where you have such a little scoring.
Well, Ron, I want to thank you for kind of coming up here and pinch hitting.
I think you've been an interesting guest. You have a good outlook on hockey.
And I know that within the next few years, you know, this is the island's third season,
so the Caps coming off a tough year, but their first year with a couple of good draft picks,
like Jolly and a couple of more. I know the Caps will be right in it.
But we'll be back with the overtime period when we return in a moment.
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In case you're tuning in late, you've missed a whale of a hockey game.
The score after three regulation periods of play is the New York Islanders 3 and the New York Rangers 3.
The Rangers coming up with three goals in the third period to turn almost certain defeat into this tie situation.
And sidelights for those of you who are interested in it, you know the Rangers and the New York Americans,
the old, last time we've had a rivalry like that, last time they played in the playoffs was in 1937-38.
And in a two game out of three series, the same as this, in the sixth period or the third overtime period of the last game,
the New York Americans defeated the New York Rangers by the count of three to two.
So whether or not history will repeat itself, we'll have to wait and see.
And down it's been a whale of a game and a whale of a season.
Both teams back out on the ice as we get ready now for the overtime sudden death.
And of course, you always see that great praise about the ecstasy of victory and the agony of defeat.
Well, you'll see it here tonight because the team that wins it will be very, very happy.
The team that loses it, extremely dejected because when you lose it this way, so close, in overtime it'll always hurt.
And Bruce Hood now says, let's go. Puts up his hand and he's ready to go.
Players taking their final whirl in their respective ends of the ice.
Well, the clock shows 20 minutes, just like a regulation period of time.
The two teams have switched ends of the ranks, the same as if we were playing a four period game.
The only difference of course being the first score will end this hockey game.
And stay with us, we'll stay with you and it's going to be a great finish.
Eddie Jackaman is on the 8th Street side of the Garden and Billy Smith on the 7th Avenue side.
8th Avenue and 7th Avenue.
So Rizzotto said as a youngster growing up that meant a lot with the Avenue for him.
Well, I hope that helps paint the picture for you.
The draw taken by Lois Chuteson and the Rangers and Vickers after the puck.
Vickers now loses, going, score!
Oh, look at that, he's gone!
J.J. Parisi has scored and the Islanders are going on in the playoffs.
Holy mackerel, how about that? Holy cow, we're going on down.
Look at that mob scene, they're just going out of their minds.
Vickers going into the period, 1949 and the Islanders have done it, they're going on in a Stanley Cup.
So I'm ready to jump out of the booth, holy cow!
How about that? As Phil would say, holy cow.
The Islanders win it and they go in now to the next round.
And the Rangers in true professional style come on and congratulate the Islanders.
You know there's Gary Howe and Eddie Jackman, took a little extra time to say thank you and wish the best for a couple of class guys.
So the Islanders go on now and we'll see who they'll play when we find out who wins between Toronto and Los Angeles.
I watched this ceremony with Bill Villamur and Billy Smith and my happiness here for the Islanders, I can't help feeling sorry for the Rangers and Emile Francis.
Just a great club, Emile Clance walks over to Al Arbor, shakes his hand and heads to the locker room.
Just a great game, two great clubs and I'm sorry that this had to happen. But look at the elation on the Islanders.
Ralph Stewart who did not dress tonight is out on the ice in his street clothes and we're glad to see that.
Ralph of course contributed during the season. The Islanders now skate off, they've won it, they've defeated the Rangers.
It's almost unbelievable as the Islanders in their third season, you know Jim this is the third straight victory for the Islanders here at Madison Square Garden.
This is just incredible because the Islanders an expansion club, third season and they've been able to do it all here tonight.
Some of the courage of Al Arbor has to be mentioned. Al Arbor went with Billy Smith on the net when many experts would have faulted him.
I thought Billy Smith was outstanding tonight and I want to commend Al Arbor for having the guts and the courage of his convictions to go with Billy Smith in this game here tonight.
J.P. Parisi who became the folk hero at the Coliseum, second goal of the playoff from Jude Bruin and how that combination helped and you look back at that trade that was so important at 11 seconds.
And that's the end of the game with a final score the New York Islanders 4 and the New York Rangers 3.
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The New York Islanders had built up a 3-0 lead. The Rangers came back like you knew they would.
Tied it up and in the first overtime the Islanders win it at 11 seconds. First time on the Rangers end J.P. Parisi the tip in on the centering pass by Jude Bruin.
The summary of the hockey game. Clark Gillies made it one and nothing in the first period. At 16 minutes of the period his second playoff goal from Bob Warren, Burt Marshall.
That's how the period ended. In the second period Dennis Potman took over. He picked up a power play goal. His first goal of the playoff was from John Potman, Bob Nice from at 8.26.
And then a short handed goal by Dennis Potman. His second of the playoff, second of the period from Lorne Henning at 12.51 and it was three to nothing Islanders.
Nuts to be denied. The New York Rangers came roaring back. Billy Fairburn who is the all time career leader in goals against the Islanders scored two in a row.
His third of the playoff from Walt Kachuk, Ron Gressler at 4.44 and then Billy Fairburn a power play goal his fourth of the playoff and his 11th goal career wise against the Islanders from Vickers and Parker at 13.27.
And then Steve Vickers tied it up 3-3 his second playoff goal from John Rattell, Raj O'Bear at 13.41 and it was 3-3.
And then under the first overtime, J.P. Parisi the tip in on the centering pass by Jude Druin at 11 seconds and the Islanders won it 4-3.
40 shots on goal by the Rangers, 25 by the Islanders and you be sure and listen to WMCA. We should be able to have the information on for you sometime tomorrow with who the Islanders will be playing. Jim?
Bill Chadwick who just showed a great field of class. Bill just walked over and congratulated Dom and I and wished us good luck the rest of the way. I think that's nice of Bill Chadwick. He's a class guy.
Well you'd expect it from Bill who was a great official, elected to the Hall of Fame and certainly appreciate what he said and of course a New York team now in that quarterfinal round and I hope they do go all the way.
Jim?
You're kind of beat buddy. Thank you very much and we'll see you wherever the next round is.
Dom I'm looking forward to it. It's always a pleasure and for the Islander fans it's been a wait, not a long one, a short one and who knows what's next, maybe the world.
Alright the final score for the final time the New York Islanders win it, show up on the scoreboard for three at 11 seconds of the first overtime, J.P. Parisi and it came from drawing.
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