This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history.
The Vancouver Canucks faced the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum for the first round of the 1976 Stanley Cup playoffs on April 6, 1976.
Coached by Phil Maloney, Vancouver finished in second place in the Smythe in 1976.
The Islanders finished in second place in the Patrick Division in 1976 and were ready to start the playoffs under coach L. Arbor, who was in his sixth season with New York.
This audio recording is from New York's WMCA Radio broadcast featuring announcers John Sterling and Bob Lawrence.
The Islanders finished in third place in the New York City Hall of Fame in 1976.
The Islanders finished in fourth place in the New York City Hall of Fame in 1976.
The Islanders finished in sixth place in the New York City Hall of Fame in 1976.
As you can hear, this place is ready to go berserk.
The Islanders' Vancouver up best two out of three and it becomes Bob in the first game almost a must-game for the Islanders to win.
Many times we've said it during the regular season games that the outcome of a hockey game should well be determined by the first goal scored.
I really think that's going to be the result of this hockey game.
Whoever gets it in the next first is novel to go on to win it.
The Islanders must put a lot of pressure on the Vancouver defense and check quick.
Gregory is the veteran live-jumer, the lineman, Leon Stigl and Neil Armstrong.
Vancouver will start Chris Adler from the center with Ron Sevillebauer on the left and Don Lieber on the right.
Whether John Gould will start on right wing, Harold Smith and Mike Robidine defend.
Off the draw, Islanders control Davey Lewis to shoot it in as he does offside JP Parisi.
The Islanders starting their bet line.
Two junior at the center, JP Parisi on the left and Eddie Westfall on the right.
The Burt Markle and Davey Lewis back off.
The first down the clock was dropped on the ice. Immediately Vancouver went up the second spin to the Islanders.
They are going to check it very close.
They were even checking the defense.
Bob is covered in fact, and no team in the league.
I mean no team was covered on Vancouver.
On the Islanders this year off the draw, the big young defenseman Smith comes to center.
He's delving around the boards by Westfall.
Puck is taken away and shot in by Juann from right to left.
Adler is cool, flipped along the boards, taken away by Juann.
Rose is in front of Parisi. Parisi in the right corner fencing into the boards by Gould.
Can't control it, taken away by Robidine.
He winds it around the boards, kept in by Marshall on the right point.
Marshall blows it in back. Parisi in back of the net. Juann goes in front.
Parisi throws it across, Gould knocks.
Parisi taken by Lewis. The shot, one.
Parisi params up across the blue line and picked up by Burt Marshall.
Islanders have come off very strong.
A lead for Juann. Juann loses at the blue line, taken away now.
On the god by Gould, the shot is high.
And it's caught by Chico on the board by Marshall and thrown to center.
By Parisi. Here comes Parisi up the middle.
Parisi, a lead for Westfall, offside, closing in, ridden off the play by Kearns.
In the slot, Juann. He misses the pass.
Rebound left side, Juann sends him back to the cage after it's Parisi.
Parisi runs together along with Daly.
And the puck is knocked aside by Daly, taken away by Dennis Kearns.
Kearns heads up right. It's Rick Blythe.
Don Lieber. And now the puck is thrown in by Blythe.
And it's center-eyed to Chicky Walton.
Around his own at Davey Lewis.
And head for Parisi. Islanders haven't made a change yet.
Losing at the Vancouver line of Currys.
Here's a lead for Walton. He comes across one on two.
His dump pass, taken away by Nason.
Nason heads up right.
Nason now as their flight is breaking up and he's down the road.
Seller on Walton at the other end of the ice.
Seller on Walton having a go waiting for the islander there.
Seller on Nason down.
Seller on the good left.
Seller on the good right hand.
Seller on Nason down.
And now they're separated by Armstrong.
By Stickels.
Andre Seller on.
Not Mike Chicky Walton to the ice.
Walton initially had the better part of that go.
It started when Walton had made a drop pass and Seller on.
In the process of trying to ride him off the puck did not like the way
where Seller on got his stick up a little high.
And then he got it back on the ground.
Walton retaliated by crashing him one.
And then the two of them got out.
Walton got the initial best of it because he was putting Andy
Seller on in the face with his helmet.
And his bloody dandy snows pretty good.
But Seller on even the score very quickly.
With his fists.
And both of them are going to go on the penalty box.
Certainly five minutes each for fighting.
And it may be more.
Walton is getting five minutes for fighting.
At 140.
And he's getting five minutes for fighting.
Andy Seller will probably get the same.
Whoops.
Two minutes for high sticking and two minutes and five minutes for fighting.
So they say that.
Seller on started it.
With two minutes for high sticking and five for fighting.
So the owners will have to skate a man down for that first two minutes.
Of the penalty being served by Andy Seller on time of the penalty
at 140 and it should take them long.
For those uses to burn down and explode.
18 20.
The penalty is going to be a little bit more.
And then the penalty is going to be a little bit more.
18 20 left in the first third.
Right now there's a break in the action and there is no score.
It was offered to him.
And Walton Bob off as you said just for five.
Vancouver a very aggressive offensive team.
The Islanders will kill it with Westfall and Lauren Henning.
Heart and Denny Potman who makes his first appearance on the ice.
Islanders shoot it to the Vancouver line taken by Bob Daly.
Daly and Burns the defensive pair.
Now ahead on left wing for Lever comes across the line.
Not the way to get by heart.
And he sends it to the left wing.
And then the ball goes to the right wing.
And not the way to get by heart.
And he sends it off the board and into the crowd.
As he tried to set it down ice.
Clark Gillies has gone on to serve the first two minutes of the Salarot penalty.
And as you say that's most likely because of that.
It'll be a while until that line comes back out on the ice.
Salarot have only been on the ice maybe 30 seconds tops.
So on the Islanders we're trying to get the rest of that line change on.
When Ian Walton got into it.
Walton initially got the best of it but Andy evened it up.
Right off the draw.
And he's been hit by Burber God.
Good save by Tico. Kicks it out but not out of the zone.
Ken and China clear and he does the center.
After it is Daly.
Daly and Burns are on both defensemen.
Now the puck sent to center by Ben Hoover.
Taken away by Denny Popman.
He throws a right back in again all the way down.
The Islanders have killed off the first 35 seconds of the penalty.
The line is Dennis Burber God.
Rick Blight and John Lever.
A head now comes Burber God on his off wing and he plays it in.
Taken by Westfall he retreats behind the net.
Circles the net.
Wines it around and is picked up by Denny Popman.
And Denny can't control that it goes to center ice.
How many of these would have had a two on two rush?
Here is Burns.
A head now for Lever.
He plays it in for Rick Blight.
Knocked away by Henning.
He's loose behind the Islander net.
Hard plays him back to Denny Popman.
He winds around for Westfall and the Islander is too clear.
Here comes Westfall to center.
His pass is deflected.
Burns comes across.
Burns a tough pass.
Burber God with a bullet from the right side.
Off the drop pass and back to the lead one nothing.
A power play goal by Dennis Burber God.
He shot off bullet.
And anything rush ever saw it went clean as a whistle into the lower left hand side of the net.
Burber God let it go very quickly just inside that blue line after he received the drop pass.
Jerry Hart went down on his side to try to block the shot on a sliding save but it just rifled in.
And that might have been part of the problem why Chico never saw the puck.
As hard as going down to try to make a sliding save.
Burber God gets the goal.
That will be his first for this year's playoffs at 2.58.
The assist to Burns and Blight.
Now the teams are equal to close great as Salaroff.
And a rotten will serve the coincidental majors.
Off the draw Islanders lose at the blue line bang the other way by Vancouver taken away by Marshall.
Burke plays it in.
Caught by Ridley in goal Ridley in his first family cut game loses by the McCree.
And that's not the way and is taken by Ron Settleback.
He throws cross ice for a goal.
He goes into the Vancouver zone and a delay offside is called by Neil Armstrong.
There's a breaking action with the score.
Vancouver won and the Islanders nothing.
Comes out in front.
Rust clears and back to Jerry Hart.
Now out on the left side by Harris.
The light is on the ice and they can't get it out.
Hart has to pick it up back in his own end.
He throws cross ice to Denny Huntman.
Now a lead for 28 broken up in center ice and jumps away by Greigdale.
Taking away by Hart.
Jerry Hart will rush himself.
Harkens in the Vancouver line he plays it in.
After Harris and Gillies.
Think about Ozilson behind the net.
He's a good move to get around Harris and comes up ice.
Ozilson skates straight ahead.
A lead for Settleback broken up by Denny Huntman.
It curls into Islander in.
Taken by Denny Huntman behind his goal.
He sends it in front.
Picked away by Russia.
Ryan a lead on right wing to Hart.
Harris now drops it in.
After he goes Gillies and Grisdale.
Gillies keeps saying the shot he made behind.
Grisdale comes across on the right side.
And he plays it down deep in Islander in.
And he goes in the middle of the corner.
And Grisdale comes across on the right side.
Taken by Denny Huntman.
A head for Gillies.
Gillies hands is broken up in front by Gould.
And taken away by Chottie.
Here's a three on three.
Chottie a lead for Gillies.
Back to Brian.
Brian's circles go over the line.
A head for Denny Huntman.
He closes the shot.
He's the second rebound.
Chottie a lead for Gillies.
On the point Hart.
Hart on the left point.
He's caught in the shot.
Went live.
He out of the edge.
He over skates on the right course.
He's pinned by Chottie.
They'll get a face off in deep fanguva rights.
We've gone five minutes into this first pair of the hockey game.
The Ounners are yet to get a direct shot on goal.
At Ridley to give us some idea of the kind of defense that.
The Ounners are having a little problem coming out of their end.
A lot of pass have been off the mark.
Only because I think they're still a little bit on the tight side.
But that first goal, a power play goal scored by Van Kuber should take a lot of that edge off.
There for Gould got the first goal of the game.
Three minutes into it.
From Cron's and Blight.
And Van Kuber leads it.
I thought that Denny Huntman shot had Ridley beaten.
And he just went wide to the left side.
Highlanders have carried the plate of Van Kuber tonight.
There are really thumping bodies.
And he's a Van Kuber as the one up in the league.
Both teams have made a change.
Lauren Henning is centering the line out.
But Howard and Nicodem is centering off the penalty box.
Off the draw.
Howard along the board plays behind the Van Kuber net.
Take away by Robert Dye.
He sends out Smiths.
And Henning centerized the fans.
He's broken up in 10-up a blight by Marshall.
And thrown to Howard.
Gary comes across.
Tries to ride through Robert Dye as check.
And the fans are felt from Howard.
The body is kept in by Henning along the left board.
Now it's not the centerized by Bobby Lola.
He gets punished by Debbie Lewis.
And Lewis plays it right back in again.
The bodies are really flying.
There's going to be a thumping series between two teams
who will play the body.
The head and centerized now.
The fans onside.
And for a cloudy he is checkered behind.
And Lola.
And Nicodem comes the other way.
And Howard across the Van Kuber line.
Bobby winds it around the net on the right side.
Goes for it himself.
Plays it back to Howard.
Gary looks to center.
He's checked there.
Hit by Jaley.
And it's tied up for a faceoff.
As Howard and Smiths begin to strike.
There's a break in the end.
He scores.
Van Kuber won.
The Allen News number.
Big job now.
Deep bang for Rick.
He's just too big for it.
The pass thrown by Jenny Poppins.
A lot quiet and hard let go of the Blazing Bullets.
And it went in.
Now it may have been sifted in by Clark Gillies.
Nope. They give it to Gary Hart.
Jenny Poppins will definitely get it at 6.
Johnny gets an assist for winning the draw.
Now that's a good one.
And it's a good one.
Eddie Johnny gets an assist for winning the draw.
Now Van Kuber comes down cut.
Head for Gould.
He was shot down.
He was handed back the ball
by dimmi Popkin.
And they're seen by Lee Westfall.
코 open and looking for Deswegen special in rushing.
He's inning with
turns and back in his own cage winding around the boards and out comes Don Lever.
The head for Monahan, knocked off his stick, taken by Juans.
Juans fast broken up.
Westfall will come across when his teammates clear.
They do, and he does.
All the way down.
Behind the van, Kuehren and his Dennis Kearns.
Rylanders have controlled the play, retied at 1.
Only 7 minutes gone by in a super hockey game.
This is the Stanley Cup hockey.
Gary Monahan comes across the van Kuehren.
Belted by Hart, dragged down by Hart.
No penalty called.
And the island is lucky there.
The head now for Westfall on right wing, passed him,
and is deflected back to center ice by Dennis Kearns.
Now Denny Popman comes across.
Grows to shoot Juans left wing.
It's gulfed at sent down iso by Dennis Kearns.
Pick up by Bert Marzow.
Kearns has played extremely well thus far.
It has put all islanders with over tied 1-1.
Denny Popman ahead of ice for Nice Street.
He's just knocked out penalty on Bobby Lallon.
Penalty coming up on Bobby Lallon.
He reached out and put the hook into a nice riveting hook
down, getting a great lead pass from Denny Popman.
There is a break in the action.
With the score, the islanders won and van Kuehren won.
Penalty is on Bobby Lallon.
Two minutes for hooking at 7.31 of the second period.
The most prolific power play muted in the National
Hockey League is on the ice for the islanders.
Haught the jaw.
Left point, Denny Popman.
Right point, John Popman.
Left point, Denny Popman.
Denny looks in the slot.
The Harris is shot.
Broken up, rebound Harris.
Harris right side, Deeks.
Right face off circle Harris.
Denny starts to sneak in.
He has snuck in.
The pass in front is deflected and sent down ice by Chris
Oddlison.
Oddlison and Johnny Gould are killing the penalties.
Boy, Bob, you saw Denny Popman sneak in.
One of his maneuvers in that pass almost got to him.
They've gotten out a number of times and scored this year.
Here's John Popman, a son.
He plays it off the board.
Gillies to go in after to keep it in and set it up.
Grows it in front, knocked aside by Robotsyke.
Kicked up by Gillies.
At the islanders, had it set up.
Back on the point now, Denny Popman.
But it's knocked away and sent to sunrise.
And here comes Gould.
One on one.
He flakes to the left and shot.
Gould!
Short-handed goal by Johnny Gould.
He's faked and shot up.
Bullet pass, rush.
And the islanders have given up a short-handed goal.
Johnny Gould made a beautiful deep.
He cut to the left and as a huge John Popman for the screen,
he fired it past Rush.
Using John Popman for the screen, it is 2-1 Vancouver.
8-18 is the time of that goal.
It is a short-handed one.
Gould would score 32 regular season goals.
Tends up with his first of the playoffs.
At 8-18, it's a short-handed goal.
Right off the faceoff, Denny Popman trying to keep it in
and couldn't and Gould broke out 2-1.
Now off the draw, Harris sneaks it in.
The shot's a goal!
And a goal!
Ridley! Harris sneaked in on the right side and shot it off.
Ridley!
They hit Ridley behind in the skate and went in.
Oh my goodness, what a beginning to a fairly cut series.
Harris with no angle at all, shot it off the backside of Ridley's
skate into the net.
And we're tied at 2-1 the power play goal by Billy Harris.
Getting used to this word, unbelievable.
Billy Harris gets his first playoff goal.
And this year's playoff sits an unassisted goal.
It is a power play goal.
Billy Harris has scored a few of those this year.
And we're tied at 2-1 piece, 828th of a goal, 10 seconds after Gould
had scored his short-handed one.
We have had two power play goals, one short-handed goal,
four goals in the first 8-1-1-1 minutes.
And that's why you can't believe radio guys and TV guys and newspaper guys,
they talk about the tough defense in the Stanley Cup.
We have a four goals, Bob, in 8-1-1-1 minutes.
Unbelievable. I don't know how that fuck went in the net.
All right, up to center-ice now, Davey Lewis.
Team's at equal strength.
In fact, the penalties are over on everybody.
Both Walton and Salamone out.
And back of the net 2-1, can't keep it in.
Snips throws it out on the left side to a lever.
He overskates, hit by Westfall, loses the puck,
losing the right side of the net and then it's frozen
and held against the boards for a faceoff.
Bob, Harris had no angle to shoot from.
He almost was shooting from behind the net and he jammed it.
And the next thing you knew, the puck was in the net.
I don't think he really thought it had much of a chance.
He just sort of threw it in the gentle direction.
It was only about six or eight feet away.
Ridley, I don't think, saw the puck coming.
It went off the side of his skate.
It must have hit the post and crawled in the goal.
For Harris, the power play goal at 8-28.
Unbelievable.
Hide off the job.
Burt Marshall is shot with high and wide.
Rebound, caroms out on the wings of light.
He tries to clear and he does.
Just center-ice.
Taken by Burt Marshall, he plays it in.
Taken by a nice trim now and he throws it all the way down behind the Vancouver net.
Picked up and backed by Robotai, he circles the net.
Mike Robotai, he comes up ice.
Robotai quickly to center.
A lead pass for Blythe, not going. Picked up by Salaroff.
Skating one on two.
Salaroff comes across, is hit by Snep.
But still manages to throw it in.
Ridley stops the puck and back of the net.
Layed in back of the net by Blythe.
He winds it around but is going to be kept in by Burt Marshall.
In the slot, the shot.
He's very bravely.
He made a great save on Salaroff.
Picked up by Marshall.
We've now cut him by Hart.
Hart, the shot.
Just went wide.
Ridley went down to the puck like wide.
And the rebound.
Params to center-ice.
A head for O'Farrity.
O'Farrity across on the left.
Grows it in front of the net and is tipped away by a wrist.
The rebound picked up by Hart.
It is a wide open hockey game.
A lead for Neistat.
Neistat comes across.
One man to beat.
Beers to the right, the shot.
Kicked saved by Ridley.
He had to make a honey to stop Neistat.
It is a wide open game.
The center turns.
He flips in a bouncer.
Stopped by the club at Cheek R.A.
And back of it now, a howitzer.
Trying to clear it out of the zone.
And he does.
A head for Trotty.
A lead for Howitz.
His right wing pass for Neistat.
It goes over the side flap by Dennis Kearns.
Right now, let's pause.
15 seconds for a station identification.
We're listening to this family talk.
This is New York Islander Hoppe.
This corner by Bay of the Tuck.
Tied it to.
Dennis Kearns winds it up.
Around the net, but not out.
Kept him by Hart at the blue line.
He throws it in back of the net.
After it goes Trotty.
Harris sets up in front.
Trotty in back of the net.
Trying to center it.
He's checked against the boards and knocked away by Kearns.
Picked up now on the right side by Herbert Gotts.
And here's a penalty.
Herbert Gotts put the hook in the heart and knocked him down.
No question about it.
And it occurred, Robert Lawrence, right in front of referee Lloyd Gilmore.
No question about it.
Herbert Gotts put the hook in the heart and yanked him on his fanny.
And he's having a right in front of Gilmore.
Herbert Gotts was so upset at the call.
He started the protest and quickly shut up.
Knowing full well Gilmore would put him with a game misconduct.
It'd be too long.
Herbert Gotts gets two minutes for hooking at 10.36.
So the onerders again have a power play opportunity.
The first two shots of the game of the onerders went in.
Two out of three shots on goal so far have gone in.
I don't believe this game.
They saw now left they saw circle right side of Kirk Ridley.
Stickle will drop the block and it stopped.
And the onerders won that draw and the onerders are not very happy.
Neil Armstrong whistled it down and the onerders had drawn it back and had it set up.
Chattie A. The Lightning Company is out.
Chattie A. Gillies Harris with the Popman Brothers on the power play.
The number one power play in the National Accu-League.
But off the draw, it's taken it back by Gulley.
Wines it around but not out kept in the guns.
The near board is now blown all the way down ice by Tracy Freck.
Radd is out on the rear of the box along with John Gryvdale skating at the front of the box
during the penalty will be Johnny Gould and Chris Adlerson.
All right. The center ice comes trying to get.
He makes a move.
Come to cross.
Leeds Gillies offside.
They call it offside.
Leon Stickle had the call right in front of them and he called it offside.
There are still nine minutes left in this period and we've had just about everything.
A great fight.
Four goals.
Penalties.
Jordan Hennig goes.
The onerders, as you know, looked a little bit on the tired side against Atlanta the other night
in their final regular season game but they are well rested and flying in this game tonight.
I don't have the face off.
It's thrown down ice by Tracy Freck.
A minute and a half left on the penalty to Dennis Verbeder.
Islanders behind their own at Denny Popman taking his time setting it up.
A leadout pass now to Trotty down the left wards.
It turns to Dennis and Center.
Dennis comes to the Vancouver line looking to come across.
Check off the play by Robozyte and now Tracy Freck sends it all the way down.
Good play by Tracy Freck.
Back to his own at John Popman.
Still a minute left in the penalty.
In fact a minute five is John Popman comes up ice.
All right.
John Popman out guns it in the left side.
Gillies will try to take it out.
It's taken there by Monahan.
He can't clear it frozen by Gillies and Monahan and they get a face off.
And deep bang through the ice.
Monahan has come on to try to kill the rest of this along with O'Flaherty.
And on the back will be Grisdale and Tracy Freck.
The Islanders get a new line out.
The Westfall-Farisi drew a line after the first minute is gone of.
There are the guards penalty.
The Islanders like to keep him in the penalty box all night.
He's already scored one goal, a power play goal first to the game
and he's there leading the score and really can blaze that puck in there.
Right off the draw.
Islanders win it.
Back on the point it drew a Dennis Popman.
Dennis now left side Farisi in the slot.
The shot went wide.
Params out right side.
Kept in.
No it's going out to center ice.
And here comes one on one again.
O'Flaherty comes in against Kenny Popman.
He is felted by Dennis.
Dennis falls down but he manages to whack the puck around the neck.
And it comes out to Farisi on the left side of the neck.
Thirty-five seconds left in the penalty.
Oh Islander penalty now.
Farisi jumped O'Flaherty who was digging the puck out
and the Islanders will be a man down.
Has the thirty-four seconds elapses on the penalty to Verbega.
Right now there's a break in the action with a score.
The Islanders two and Vancouver two.
Up for hooking a twelve-oh-two off the draw.
Vancouver control snipped from the left point.
The shot is broken up in front by the drive.
The rebound kicked away by Rebs.
Rebs now picked up by Davey Lewis.
Lewis winds it around for McMillan.
McMillan will try to clear McMillan and Trottier now on.
And there's a faceoff as the puck is frozen by Monahan and O'Flaherty
along with Billy McMillan.
The Islanders had that one-man advantage for about a full
minute and a half, a little bit less than actually by a couple of seconds
and were unable to get a single shot on goal on Ridley.
The Islanders up against a continually close-checking
Vancouver team.
This game so far is working out like a chess match
between Phil Maloney, the coach of Vancouver,
and Al Arbor of the Islanders in their personnel changing.
Off the faceoff, the shot by Robotai is a ride.
Rebs picked up by Monahan.
He tries to ascend it out.
Teams are still playing four-man aside.
They are at equal strength, not full strength,
but soon Vancouver will have the man advantage.
In fact, in two seconds or now,
Sneps along the board and center-eyes loses to Henning.
The puck is now picked up and sent down ice by O'Flaherty.
He comes across the line, hit by Westfall, and down he goes.
The pass goes across ice, taken out by Whelton.
Whelton plays in the corner.
Westfall digs it out, can't clear.
Kicked in by Dennis Kern's left point.
On the right point, he's taken by Robotai.
His shot is the puck and then sent down ice by Davy Lewis.
Well, Bob, I thought Westfall might have gotten a penalty there.
It was he, and knocked down O'Flaherty.
And funny, just took him down with the overhands.
The center-eyes comes to Shaky Walton.
He is checked and sent up by Marshall,
and he has to retreat back to his own end.
Fifty seconds remaining on the Parisi penalty.
Six forty-five left in the period, retied at two.
Vancouver shoots all the way down.
Behind the islander, that's Davy Lewis.
He winds it around on the left side for Westfall.
Can't knock it out. Kicked in by Daley.
And the timing at it's Shaky Walton.
Walton comes around and sent it back on the left point
to Dennis Kern. On the right point, now to Daley.
Daley throws it in front, saved by Wretz,
and clears that ice by Bert Marzell.
Great teamwork there. Wretz dug it out and flipped it in front.
Right in front of his cage.
He had to be confident about Marshall handling it.
And Bert threw it down.
I think both goalies are starting to settle down now,
after the initial four goals have been scored.
Islander's feeling center. Hart loses and center-eyes.
Now Jerry puts it up again.
Jerry now comes to the Vancouver line,
and he throws back in the way with Denny Potman.
Ten seconds left on the Breesie penalty.
Denny throws it all the way down.
The penalty will be over in three more seconds.
Two, one. Breesie is out.
The center-eyes comes Kerns, and he plays it in.
It's behind the islander.
Breesie stepped out and was belted and knocked down,
and the crowd wanted a penalty.
Now along the far boards,
LaLonde tries to dig it out.
Belted is ruled by Denny Potman,
taken away by McMillan.
He plays it back to Hart, and Hart guns it down.
The tie-up is over the icing,
and overt icing by Jerry Hart.
The touch is made by Dennis Kerns.
There is a break in the action with a score.
The islander's two and Vancouver two.
Islander's control in their own ends.
Denny Potman circles in his own net.
It's past beautiful, past Breesie.
Now Lee, for a harass, he comes across,
the bucket by LaLonde, and set the other way.
Well, Farron, he loses, and is center to Denny Potman.
He throws across to Hart. Now, Lee for trottier,
but it goes off the stick, and it's set the other way by Vancouver.
The islanders have carried the play.
Vancouver has had two chance to score, and they have it.
Here's Denny Potman coming up.
I was trying to get around that little guy LaLonde.
There's like a little knot out there.
A lead for Harris. This pass back to Dennis.
Dennis comes across, dumps it all the way down.
After Gillies, and Grisdale.
Gillies knocks Grisdale down, and back in the net,
sticking by Brad. He tries to clear.
He cannot. Harris keeps it in, along the near boards.
Harris battling along the near boards with Ophardi.
They don't get a whistle. It's kicked along the boards.
It is not frozen there, and now they finally get a whistle.
Along the near boards, in deep Vancouver ice.
For a moment, the islanders clock Gillies was just circling around the clock,
which he thought was going to be frozen to the boards.
But the whistle did not sound came over to help out Billy Harris.
Gillies had gone out in the slot, hoping that Harris would dig it out
and throw it to him there, but it just didn't happen.
We got a pace off in the near side.
Vancouver wins the draw. Grisdale goes behind his head.
Picking by Gillies and dumped out of the zone.
They got the fucker roll all the way down to Vancouver.
4-15 left in the period. Here's Gillies to come across.
He does. Aleep Harris, and it's called down to last guys.
And that was a bad call. I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you why. Shradie had to come out of the zone,
but he did get one foot across the blue line, one skate across,
and I thought that he was onside.
Then Gillies busted across, and he set up Harris on a breakaway.
It does no good to protest about it, but certainly Brian Shradie did,
and he went to Leon Stickle who made the call and made a brief
but assured complaint about the call.
The honours would have had themselves that sure goal.
Billy Harris right in on Ridley. Nobody in the back there to stop him,
but so much for that. The score remains 2-2 here in the first period.
Right off the face off, taken by Marshall, he guns it in.
Highlanders have really carried the blade of Vancouver.
Behind the net is taken by Robotsy.
He tries to clear it out. It's taken by Berezi along the left board.
Berezi trying to kick it in back of the net for Julian. He does.
Julian's in back. In front, McMillan. The pass out is to Bucket.
Pick up by McMillan. He is battled off the play by Big Sneps,
and the Bucket's frozen, and I think the goal cage moved as well.
Robert, that's one of the things that Bill Torrey mentioned in our center ice tonight,
and he had been quoted in the papers to watch Ridley,
and he made sure that the officials were aware of it.
Ridley has been known to do that, to lift the goal cage off its post when he is in trouble.
Yes, remember last time they were in Gary Smith's today?
Off the faceoff now, in back of the net.
Robert Ty comes out. Now, a head and center ice with Settlebow off his stick.
He can be skated down by Bert Marshall, a head for Davey Lewis.
Davey trying to skate it out of the zone, but it's poked back in,
but offside Vancouver as the puck went over and came back again.
Three minutes and 40 seconds remaining in the first period, in a wild first period,
and a wide open first for Ridley too. We're tied at two apiece.
They are really thrown, they're weighed around, the sticks have been up a little high.
You tend to get a little worried when this sort of thing happens.
Somebody could really get hurt. It's one thing to throw the body,
another thing to let the sticks get high. People can really get cut with the sticks.
Off the faceoff, Smith's. A cross-ice pass and a shot by Robert Ty,
and they go down and make the save. Pretty good shot from about 80 feet out.
The center ice now comes at Davey Lewis, a head for Juan.
Ju's skating well. Ju to cross with Nice to him on the right.
Nice to throw a cross-ice, it's deflected, kept in, and Nice to him now,
Dunston in back of the net. Juan hasn't gotten off on this line,
as Howard is on now, and Nice to him. The puck is sent to center by Vancouver,
picked up by Davey Lewis. He comes back to the Vancouver line,
Smith and Graltnit Lewis, and Lewis knocked him both down.
Well, the bodies aren't blind. These are two big physical teams.
Like Max, intercepted and centered by Hart, he guns it in.
Graltnit is center off, and back of the net, it's Robert Ty, his pass out is
down, Nice. No one touched it, and he goes into islander,
and it stops, and Jenny Potman recovers in front of his net.
A lead in center ice is tipped by Salaraw to the Vancouver line,
skated out by Daly, a head for Kearns. That play broken up in center ice,
and taken back by Jenny Potman in his own end.
Watch my...
I didn't center ice down the house.
I think that's why I stopped by Salaraw. I dropped it at the corner for a day.
A lead in center out of the house. How?
Two-some-on-goals, gloves down by Ridley.
Ridley plays it in back of the net, it's round around the board by Blight,
and it's going to be carried out by Dennis Kearns, the over-skate,
and Daly now sends a head in center ice believer who tipped him into islander end.
Skated down by Jenny Potman, two minutes remaining in the query.
Jenny now looks up ice, and sends out for Nice, and goes off the skate,
taken by Blight, knocked away by Nice, and recovered by Blight.
His pass comes over the line, and Vancouver loss of clear before they send the puck in.
Blight, across for Kearns, plays in off the board to center it to Monahan,
loaded along the board by Jenny Potman, left side of the islander net.
Monahan sends him back for the line, knocked away and down ice,
and there's going to be a penalty, I believe, yeah.
And islander penalty is upcoming Lloyd Gilmore, I believe,
has nailed Jenny Potman with only a minute 38 left in the first period.
Jenny Potman was involved in some pretty close checking on Faribagas,
and apparently got too much activity in that checking that he was doing.
So Lloyd Gilmore rather than let it get too much further out of hand,
blew the whistle and sent Jenny Potman to the penalty box,
two minutes for Ruffin at 18-22.
The score remains tied, two apiece here in the first period.
Press ball and hitting come on ice.
Vancouver on the power play for minute 38 of this query,
and then if it don't score 20 seconds of the next query, off the base off,
is sent to center ice by the islander, is heading out, trying to sweep it in,
and he does, heading down the right side, blows in front to Westfall.
Westfall will cover the shot, really the rebound under release,
and he holds on, Westfall almost at a short hand ago.
Westfall could not quite control the puck that had been sent out to him
by a fast skating and good puck handling.
Lauren Henning would come down the near boards, he was off balance,
but threw it towards the gentle direction of the crease.
Westfall was bodied off the puck by Karns,
and could not quite control it, so it was somewhat of a feeble shot,
but still pushed in the gentle direction.
Ridley had to jump on it quick as it was fluttering around in front of the net.
The base off will occur in the right face-out circle, left side of Ridley,
Westfall on the jaw of Chris Adlison, who is the base off expert for Vancouver.
The puck is dropped by Stigl, taken by Westfall,
he throws it across, but daily clears it from in front of his goal.
And Dennis Kearns looks up ice, a minute and a half,
remaining in the penalty, a minute and five remaining in the period.
Jerry Hart now in his own end, as the puck was sent down,
and he clears all the way down ice.
Under a minute, left in the period.
The center of ice comes Kearns, throws ahead for Adlison,
and then he skates to the line. If shot, taken by Hart, knocked away,
picked up Adlison, Adlison in back of the net.
The case is that the rebound is to fucking lie,
the rebound is turned to the right side, Adlison back on the point to Kearns.
Kearns back to Adlison, Adlison, cross-eyed fast,
daily, daily on the right side for Cool, back on the left point to Kearns.
Kearns is shot, clubbed down by Tico, he saw it, had it all the way.
Jerry Hart almost got into it with Faradar Guard,
Faradar Guard would position himself right in the crease,
at the top of the crease at least, and try to get some kind of a tip in.
Vancouver moving the puck extremely well,
really rifling the puck at all four corners of the attack zone,
and looking for the best possible opportunity.
The save by Tico was not a very difficult one,
because he was wide open on the screen on the shot,
but he did make the good save.
We very nearly had another confrontation with Jerry Hart and Faradar Guard.
I think Hart would be happy to go into penalty box if he could take Faradar Guard with him.
They ever got the big gun for the Vancouver Canucks.
And you're right Bob, Vancouver threw the puck around beautifully,
from the corner to the point, back to the corner, cross-eyed.
The draw, one by the out is, they can't clear,
cut in along the board by David.
Right side, Blight, Blight throws it in back for Walton,
Walton looks to center it, he's in back and then,
pulled by Faradar, sides to center it,
it's cleared by Tico, Tico winds it around the net for Henning,
Henning can't clear, he took a swipe and missed,
Reynard has played in back for Walton,
Walton centers it, but it's cleared back to the point.
The goalie of the shot, save, Reynard cleared by Marshall,
taken by Blight, right side, Blight,
and passed out as the puck, it's shot to the point by Gould,
the shot is kicked by, left ball, skate, goes in the crowd.
And the barrier comes through, close on that note.
Burt Marshall did some excellent clearing in front,
in the first period, in game number one, up in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens,
Toronto has taken a one-nothing lead,
that's in the first period,
Toronto leads Pittsburgh one-nothing.
Well, the period comes through, close, it was a wild period,
four goals with score, two of them power plays,
one short-hatted by Vancouver,
and to end actions, bodies being thumped,
and it ends with a Denny Podman in the penalty box
for another 22 seconds,
and that's how the second period will begin,
where the island is a man down.
John Sterling and Bob Lawrence have announced our policy,
and Bob will return with the statistical recap of the first period
as intermission guests, and we'll get back with more New York Islanders
sailing Cup hockey right after these messages.
40 more minutes of national hockey league action,
the first game of his best of three playoffs,
and again, for the play-by-play, here against John Sterling.
Thank you, Bob, and of course we must point out
something we haven't pointed out, if this game ends in a tie,
while we go to overtime until it's settled, sudden death overtime.
Islanders have 20 seconds to kill off the penalty of Denny Podman
as they begin their send-in-kitting. Here's the ending shot.
Goal! I want a goal! I want a goal!
Goal!
Lorne and Henning, a shorthand in goal.
It is the second shorthand goal of the night.
Unbelievable.
Henning was sent across one-on-one.
He fired a blast past Ridley, and the islanders beat it three to two.
I told you, you've got to get used to this word, unbelievable.
Lorne and Henning just walked in across the blue line
with a puck for the islanders,
still having 12 more seconds to kill them.
What is left of that penalty to Denny Podman?
Let's all get an assist.
The goal at 10 seconds of the second period.
That's really something.
My penalty is almost over on Denny Podman,
and as Kearns comes out, a head for Blight, a lead is center-ice,
across the line-out for Walton.
Walton down to left line,
goes in back of the net, is boarded by Margell.
Puck is put up by Henning.
Penelty is over, teams at full and equal strength.
Westfall to come out.
Westfall sends up a head for Denny Podman.
He veers to the left and center.
Now sends a head for Henning,
batted in by Denny Podman,
and it will be whistled down.
No, it won't be whistled down at all.
Islanders made a change,
and Walton comes to center-ice.
His lead is broken up by Howlett,
and sent it for Blight.
Howlett comes the other way.
To the bank, through the line,
he rolls it in,
skated out by Daly,
who falls down on his own.
Now a head for Blight,
the big rookie,
he's got his broken up by Hart,
skated the other way by Sam Rao.
Here's a three on two.
Sam Rao the deep,
over the line,
Sam Rao skates and on goal.
Head for Howlett, the shot, hit the post.
The rebound, Denny Podman, the shot.
Save the rebound,
and back a second by Lalonde.
Howlett had a good shot,
it hit the post, and came out.
Instead of going in,
it would have been 4-2.
Head to Kearns in center.
He looks and shoots,
and knocks it all the way down ice.
It comes around the boards,
and I let her in.
Nice one, sends it back to him for Hart.
He's jammed by Vervigar,
and they combine a freeze of bucket,
and hold it in for a face-off.
Now that is down at the other end of the ice, Bob,
and if you saw that differently,
please say so.
You're absolutely correct.
I was gonna point that out,
but you call it as it happened.
That shot by Gary Howlett,
from about 15 feet out,
completely had Ridley Beats,
hit the post,
and almost was banged back in again
on the rebound.
It's 3-2,
I don't know if it's late in here,
in the second period.
The face-off will occur.
Now, Vervigar and Davy Lewis
have those sticks up high, Bob,
as you've been documenting all night long.
Off the face-off, deep-milder,
and second by Marcell,
the first time the owners have led into playoffs
tonight, this year.
The center-ice, the shot away,
whatever I said.
Play is broken up by Vervigar.
He gets a felt from Lewis.
Boy, that body is a really fine guy.
This is a good hockey game
that you'll ever see
for all things you want to see in a game.
Vancouver shoots down
for Vervigar, felt in Gillies.
Gillies comes out of the puck,
loses to Howlett in the backhand,
saved by a sprawling Davy Lewis.
He made a great save,
and here's a 3-on-2 ahead Harris.
A lead for Gillies, broken up
by the long stick of Mike Robotac.
Taking him center-ice by Sadea.
He throws it back to his own blue line
for a first Marcell.
We're going to talk at some point
about the Davy Lewis sliding save.
He made a great one.
All right, I understood it.
Harris right side,
centers it.
Sadea, but knocked away by Harold Smith.
He wanders around the boards,
kept in by Parisi,
throws in front,
the tip is missed by Harris.
The rebound is cleared.
Taking by Parisi,
back on the point to Lewis.
The shot!
Hit the post,
and came out.
It went past Ridley,
and it hit the post.
They hit two posts.
Back now comes Adler,
from the cross on the right.
Put the brakes on,
has ridden out the play,
and knocked down by Davy Lewis.
They're going to get Lewis on a penalty.
Resh is going crazy.
He doesn't believe it.
Well, there's going to be a penalty on the islanders.
And Bob, I thought that shot,
and he hit the post.
Absolutely, that's two posts.
The outers have hit so far in just this period.
Davy Lewis is getting two minutes for Alding,
and it's amazing because Lewis
was really sparring with Verva Garth,
on several occasions,
and it really been belting him.
Could have got called for cross-checking.
That one belty gave Verva Garth,
but he came off of one of those belts
against Verva Garth,
out into the crease,
and made a diving, sliding save.
He almost stopped it with his helmet.
Verva Garth giving a giveaway,
and he came in front.
Not Verva Garth,
I've listened to it.
I thought that was going to be a tie-hacking game.
My islanders are man down,
and hitting clears all the way down.
Last time out, remember,
the islanders put a short-handed goal.
And we've had two of those tonight,
and you won't go a month seeing two of those.
Not a one game.
I'm making you.
Here's Walton, the center, ahead for Blight.
The shot is high,
tipped by a rest into the crack.
There's a break in the action.
With a score, the islanders three,
and Vancouver two.
Off the face of Blight
across the lines of Vancouver.
Vancouver a man advantage,
the stop by Blight, wide,
and carams out left point,
Jenny Kerns.
A wide open game,
three or two islanders.
Daily, the right point to shot.
Kick, kick, kick, kick.
He made a beauty rebound.
Kerns, the shot in the spot by Blight.
Seared by Red and he moved back.
Oh my goodness.
Rick Blight had him dead to right,
and Red's made a quick low save.
Somehow or other, he was kind of
blodz-y about that.
He just spared that fuck right out of the air.
I mean, one of the most spectacular saves
that's been made here at the Coliseum this year.
And they're just casually shooting
at the ball.
And they're just casually shooting at the ball.
And they're just casually dropping it back out on the ice.
A sensational save.
The best for the game so far for Chico.
A minute one remaining on the panel is Davey Lewis.
16-22 left in the second period.
Three, two islanders,
and they did a couple of balls off the draw.
Kerns has shot.
Chippen with wide pass, the rest.
Luckily that wasn't on goal.
Rebound pick up by heading and he clears.
Bob, this may be the most exciting game I've ever seen.
And we are barely to come to second period.
Daily comes across, hit from behind,
and the puck comes loose with Westall.
Guns off the fore is down ice.
Taken back by Blight.
Blight comes across the line on the right side.
The big rookie on the right side holds it up and sets it up.
Now back on the point to Daily, the big guy gives a blight.
And back in the case now,
Walton in front of the goal, the shot save.
Rebound blitz, so, three on save.
Blight and shaking Walton with stop at Gorma.
And I don't believe that rest made those saves.
And I really thought we were going to have another tie game.
And Van Kooley sets it up really well on the barb.
I'll tell you, they really did.
They worked that puck so extremely well.
Some fine movement of the puck
that they did not hustle the opportunity.
The onener's a little bit out of position.
But Tico protected that goal as if there were three of them there.
Three goal-tenders instead of just little Tico.
And just as cool as a cucumber,
he has really settled down from that first period.
Ridley is still continuing to look shaky.
The onener's got to kill another 28 seconds of this penalty
before they can get some more pressure on Ridley.
Boy, the opportunity is misgamed by this unbelievable.
Off the draw, Walton back in the case, goes to his backhand,
winds him up ahead and cannot clear.
And now he is clear.
Henning finally got the edge of the stick out and it cleared it.
Daily comes back, 15 seconds on the penalty.
Daily comes across, not away by Westfall, down ice.
11 seconds left on the Davey Lewis penalty.
Decentreized, the fans have broken up by Monshaugh.
Lucent center, Monshaugh's done to it.
And that will do it on the Lewis penalty.
And back he comes.
Decentreized comes, Verbecki comes across,
fans on the pass, taken away by Hart.
Hart looks up ice.
It could be a break, a lead for Westfall,
comes across along, loses control,
and is taken away by Robicai.
His pass goes all the way down.
He goes half, rest, stuffed by Hart.
Aisling is called.
The face off will be down deep in back through the ice.
There's a break in the act with a score.
The out is great.
Dan Kuzich, two.
One by Lauren Henning.
Off the draw, the shot on goal is saved by Ridley.
Ridley now clears, but Millan took the shot off the draw.
Webac, Carams out right side, two rounds left to go to the point.
Kept in by Denny Poppins, right side at Millan.
A head for Juran, in the slot is knocked away by Grisdale.
And it's jumped to center ice by Grisdale.
But the puck sails all the way down.
Aisling waved off by Lines for Neil Armstrong.
Denny takes him back and comes out in front.
Juran!
By Millan, McMillan!
Off a great pass by Hugh Juran!
Juran!
He fed McMillan in the slot.
He went to the backhand and he started over the left shoulder of Ridley.
And the Islanders needed four to two.
Jilly McMillan should go for that puck as they're still in here.
That's his first ever playoff goal.
McMillan being set up beautifully.
McMillan is off the crease in a backhanded shot that got by Ridley.
It was not a tough chance for McMillan just backhanded it into the net.
Juran will get an assist and so will Parisi.
And the Islanders needed four to two.
Right out the face of Vancouver Chiefs today, but the goal will take it out.
The Islanders got all the chances they want.
Here's Juran across the line.
White side, here's to the left.
Go through for Parisi on the stadium instead of in front.
Another great pass by Juran.
It's not going to pull you up.
I'll make a shot.
Green line.
Green line turns out White side, but it will be carried out by Settlebar.
He loses to Monterey.
And put the center ice by jump puck man.
Now here's come Parisi down the left side.
Hey, put Juran.
Two on one.
Two on the shot.
And it's kicked saved in front by Robotside and it's sent down ice by Vancouver.
Loose in center.
It's taken across by Settlebar.
Jump back on the point, but the only one there is Parisi.
Parisi comes up nice.
Parisi two on two with Juran.
The shot saved by the Chester Ridley.
He's got, and it will be faced off in deep Vancouver ice when Ridley really looks taken in goal.
There's a break in the action score.
The Islanders four.
And then Vancouver two.
And Settlemars, Chris Pristanikin together in the Salers who fell in grace with the Seas.
From the Uncle Richard machine, a free time nominee for the Nobel Prize.
From Academy Award winning to be from Martin Paul.
From the award winning play by Lewis John Carlin-Elton, the Salers who fell in grace with the Seas.
Selling Salamars, Chris Pristanikin, the Salers who fell in grace with the Seas.
An actual embassy picked a released record on the 7G9 without value.
Selling Salamars, Chris Pristanikin, the Salers who fell in grace with the Seas.
Will premiere Sunday at Reed Coronet Selling.
Parisi out of the keepin' Vancouver in.
He's loose behind the Vancouver net.
He's picked up in back.
By Mike Robichard, Islanders in it 42 and Ridley looks really taken in goal for Vancouver.
Just the center by, but the nut skidded out in his own end by Prist Marshall.
Marshall circles to his own end.
Goes ahead for Jean Poppet, a lead in center for out of the slot.
Puts it in on goal, saved by Ridley, plays behind the gate for Snet.
He loses going back to Salera.
He tried to jump it out of the point.
It's deflected and it's stuck in.
Now thrown out of the zone by Walton.
Picked up by Marshall and he plays it right back in again after Neistat and Snet.
Snet goes in back of the net.
Snet now is put in the field by Neistat and loses.
How it takes out Robichard to fucking lose.
Here's a big check.
Salera now a lead pass to Walton.
Walton comes across winning off the play by Jean Poppetman.
My blight is passed out to Robichard.
The shot is wide.
Rebound, leading back by Lever.
Sinners it for Blight.
It's knocked away.
Picked up by Robichard.
Robichard right face off circle in the slot.
Back on the point now for Snet.
The shot, third by Russ.
Rebound Marshall.
Head for Howlett and he just ducks to Salera.
It is a wide open thumping hockey game.
Here's Howlett to center.
Howlett comes across.
Knocked down by Robichard.
The body is flying all over the ice.
Snet skates in front of the net.
Loses to Chattier on the right side.
Chattier goes in back of the net.
Neistat's in front of the net.
Chattier's in back.
Chattier circles.
Chattier kicks right into the ticket with his skate to get it out.
Chattier in back of the net.
Sinners it on the point to Dennis Poppetman.
The shot is sent in front wide.
Rebound taken by Howlett.
Howlett left face off circle in front.
It's Neistat.
The shot, go!
Way to go!
Howlett!
Bobby Neistat set up in front by Howlett.
Bobby Neistat in front.
Set up by Howlett.
Chattier took out the defense.
Howlett set up Neistat who shot it past Ribling.
And the Islanders lead it by the two.
That's the first stand that got playoff goal for Bobby Neistat this year.
Gary Howlett's definitely going to get an assist on the goal at 8-20.
And I think Dennis Poppetn, yes, he'll get an assist also.
Islanders lead it by the two.
Off the job.
Bob Morionneis for the first time.
Chussin on goal.
Stopped by a rest.
He holds on for a face off.
Vancouver offside anyway.
There's a quick in the action score.
Islanders, five.
Vancouver two.
Taken and back in the hit by Dennis Poppetn.
Head for Harris but it's too long.
Stopped by Daly in center.
He jumps back in.
Islander A.
Rush stops behind the Islander K.
Picked up by Jerry Hart.
He sends it out for Chattier.
Now lead for Harris.
Head for Gillies.
Gillies loses in center on the check of further guard.
Here is LaLonde.
He hurt himself.
LaLonde was check and went down and he's hurt.
LaLonde went down in pain.
The little guy Bobby LaLonde.
And he went down.
He hurt a knee or hurt an ankle.
I hope he's okay.
Now that looked like a knee or ankle.
Believe me I know from experience.
But he had collided with Billy Harris.
Harris went down on his stomach after the two of them collided.
I think they banged knees together.
Harris maybe not getting the better end of it.
Yep it is LaLonde's knee that is apparently the injured part.
He's being assisted off the ice.
He's been hit by a knee.
He's being assisted off the ice by two really big guys.
Bob Murray and Bob Daly.
Little Bobby LaLonde maybe one of the smallest guys in the National Hockey League.
And he flies around the ice with the biggest of them.
He can take his checks and give them to.
But he really took a collusion from Billy Harris.
Right at about center ice when they were skating in opposite directions
and met virtually head on.
I think they collided at the knee if you will.
And LaLonde is being helped into the locker room.
It's questionable whether he'll get back in the game.
The Islanders leading it five to two here in the second period.
Ten forty nine to go.
The Islanders are scoring five goals in less than half this game.
Bob have gotten them from unlikely sources too.
McMillan and Henning.
Bobby Nijm of course for your goal scorer Jerry Hart.
They have a scorer Billy Harris.
And off the face off there goes big Billy's a center cron.
Now jumps in and off the boards on the left side after Friday.
Really tries to play off the boards.
Kept him by Friday and back of the net.
Not only is Friday a jump by Daly.
They bang together big Jaley a little trotty.
It was like mutton jump and the bucket finally whizzled down.
Brian Trotty will not back off from anyone.
He looks small but he's very chunky.
He's a little bit like the side of your house.
But they were really banging together.
Getting another out of town scorer coming up on the scoreboard now.
And the second period leads Pittsburgh two to nothing.
That's in the second.
Colorado to Pittsburgh nothing.
I'd off the face off and deep back to the right.
Second by Gary Montaghan.
He winds it around the board for Dennis Kerns.
And Kerns looks to skate it out.
Head down and center right for a priority.
His pass is broken up and taken back by a priority.
Can't come in because Montaghan had beat the play and offside.
Center right daily a long slapper.
Kicked the side by Chico in the left corner picked up by Bert Marcellaire.
Bert now throws it out in the front on the right side of Harris.
He comes to center.
Head shot.
He opened his gills.
Gills.
He goes down.
He still isn't back in the net.
Gills would have been a breakaway if he had been just a little into the small.
Now the pass is taken by Ridley.
As he stops the centering pass and he falls in the pocket he holds on to be a face off.
In a deep bang with a rice.
Ridley looks really, really like he can be scored upon almost at the Islanders' Leisure.
He has not looked at all strong.
He didn't look good at the very beginning of this hockey game.
He almost looks like he's not paying attention because some of the stocks that he has made
have been so very casually has been about him.
I think it's really standard pressure and it happens to everyone.
Ridley is a rookie who wasn't expected to even make this team.
The next ranger.
Now the center ice comes to a cutty.
A cutty now throws it in.
After Harris.
Black plays it in back of the net.
Gilles keeps it in along the boards and back of the net.
Now for Harris he got the center.
It is checked by Monaghan.
Kicked aside by Harris.
Literally kicked aside.
Now Volvergarge just skated out the stop by Marble.
Shot and saved by Ridley.
He didn't even know he had it.
Under his pants he was heavily screened.
Gary Smith, a great goal-turner then.
He's fallen into disfavor with management.
And hurt Ridley.
He played very well at the end of the season but he is really a raw rookie and it's showing here.
Ridley has been affected quite a bit especially here in this period.
The Ominers have come up with three quick goals.
Heading ten seconds into the period.
Scored a short-handed goal.
Macmillan got one.
Bobby Nistroms finally shook the horse collar.
It's been around his neck for so long.
At the end of the regular hockey season it scored a goal for the Ominers.
Bobby had scored his 23 goals in regular season play.
And has been shut out for quite a while.
Finally got back on the scoreboard for the Ominers.
I think it was 13 games.
I think you're right.
And off the face-off and Van Grugeren is taken back by Grisdale.
Dumps him back for Tracy Pratt.
Wines him around on the right side.
Going to be kicked in by Jenny Bobman.
And a shot.
Left ball.
The shot.
Go.
Ridley made a big save with a quick save.
Quick save by Ridley.
A left ball.
Just danced a roll in the slot and had his time to pick a spot.
In back of the net.
It's taken by Gould and he jumps it out.
They had to settle down.
A lead for Adlerson.
He's checked on the play.
Wuses control.
And Marshall just dumps it out of his own zone to center ice.
Kicked back for Tracy.
Now a head for heart.
Part of the pilot aligns.
Just plays it into Van Grugeren slowly.
Icing waved off.
Grisdale takes it behind his net.
Grisdale gets away from a checking Q&A.
Sends out Gould.
Gould's the pass to center ice.
Goes all the way down.
This will be icing on the check by Jenny Bobman.
I know icing is waved off by Neil Armstrong.
And back of his net heart.
And all the left ball is for Tracy.
Kicked to center ice.
Skating it down Grisdale.
And icing is called this time by Leon Stickel who went down on the play along with Grisdale.
Here is a brick in the action.
With a score of the islanders five and Van Grugeren two.
Now picked up by Settlebar.
West Fall and Q&A were there.
They didn't see the puck.
Barring out of his own at Settlebar.
Settlebar comes to the islander line.
Comes across.
Dump passes back for Gould.
His shot is taken by Jean-Papin.
Pretty stopped losing in front of the Gould.
The Gould shot is saved by Res and Gould and he holds on.
Res stood up the blocking pass by.
And not the time that fell in front of the puck.
Very nearly backfired on a great play by Jean-Papin.
He had stopped the initial shot in the face off circle to the left of Chico Res.
And then after stopping the puck stood up.
Had the puck on his stake and was looking for an outlook pass.
Trying to throw it across ice when it was stolen.
And a quick shot taken.
But Jean-Papin, Nick and his little play was saved by a good recovery by Chico Res.
Vancouver sends out Lever, Lawton and Rook Blight.
Islanders have been nice to line out off the draw.
It's shot in by Blight right of the cage.
Taken by Howe.
Howe tries to clear the zone.
Bangs at the boards and ear boards and they combine to freeze the puck in.
John Lever and Mike Wilber die.
And Andy Salaroff and Gary Howe.
Face off will come just across the island of Lever.
Off the face off.
Vancouver keeps it in.
And behind it, Denny Popin.
Islanders have a 5-2 lead here in the second period.
7-35 left in the third.
Salaroff's got it clear.
Cannot stop by Walton.
And it's shot in broken up by Denny Popin.
Taken in back of the net by Salaroff.
Ace now throws out the mainstream on the right wing.
The mainstream is bodied on the play by Lever.
Luzi picked up by Hart.
Hart is turned back by Walton.
That's who we're doing is a great board check in here.
Denny Popin looks for a way out.
Just dumps to Salaroff.
Salaroff comes to the center.
Now Andy comes across the line in this line.
Here's to the right.
Head for Leicester.
The shot is over the shoulder of Ridley.
He's stopped by Hart.
He's got a 6-7 put by Ridley.
And he falls in the bucket.
He holds on.
Nice drum was there.
And he had ridden and fell down in the heat
about five feet out of the table.
One of those kind of shots is Ridley was not able to control that cut.
It would have been a sure goal for Bobby Nice Drum.
Ridley had come out of the net quite a way.
It's a good six feet out of the net.
In an attempt to cut down an angle,
which is not exactly a smart thing to do
when you've got the opposition standing right behind you.
It turned out to be Bobby Nice Drum.
But Ridley covered it up well.
Now the face-off behind the back of Ridley is taken by Snets.
Harold Snets.
Big rookie defenseman.
Dumped to center-ice.
The head for Walton.
And Shaky now puts it into Islander.
Behind the cage is Denny Potman.
Denny being forced up by Walton.
Comes out with a pop.
A head and center-out for Jerry Hart.
Hart, a lead for Nice Drum.
He's crossed the line.
This might pass his stick.
And a pick up and back by Robert Dye.
Robert Dye deals across to Snets.
A head and center-ice now for Lever.
Lever steaks quickly to the Islander line.
Comes across.
Tries to pull it through hard, but Hart plays the man.
And he's got him off the plate.
That comes out.
Little Howley steaks quickly to the Islander.
Tanks over the line.
Comes across.
A head for Nice Drum.
That pass for Howard is broken out by a Monaghan.
He can't get it out.
Hitting by Denny Potman.
A head for Howard.
Howard must die of the net.
Goes him back into that.
Looks to center it.
He's hit.
Picks a buck ahead of him.
Hits the chip.
Back on the point now.
Denny Potman left point.
Hart.
Hart has a shot.
Saved by Ridley.
The puck is loose in back of him.
And picked up by Nice Drum.
Nice to look to center.
Nice to miss it by Daley.
Big Daley.
And he flips it out of the Yazzone.
Monaghan, as far as I fast-verb a guard, comes in to shot.
Goes.
Ski, skate, skate.
He's got that cleared by...
Yes.
There's three more.
I don't know if there are 100.
A crowd has gone crazy.
At the end of one period.
That's right at the end of one.
Buffalo in St. Louis playing the first game tonight.
The first is in St. Louis.
Buffalo couldn't get their arena.
Then the next two will be in Buffalo.
And in the first period, St. Louis leads Buffalo 2-0.
And Bob, that's unbelievable.
Of course, that game has a long way to go.
Buffalo scores a lot of goals.
By Allen, he's dumping it into Vancouver Inn.
Ridley plays off the board.
Now Harris is banged there by O'Flaherty.
He's bucked his line around.
Picked him by Marco.
Left side.
And he goes up the stick and a cannon to center.
Not there by Brian Stadea.
He plays ahead for Harris.
Harris looks to come across the line.
Checked by O'Flaherty.
Bucked Harris across by Brian.
Brian closes.
Brian starts to deal back to Harris.
Block, rebound, move.
Rebound and back to Stadea.
Stadea is knocked down.
The bucket is loose.
Picked up by Daley.
Daley comes out and is packed out by Gillies.
And the puck is not carried to center.
By Monaghan.
And head for O'Flaherty on the right side.
His backhander is deflected by Marshall.
Loose him back.
O'Flaherty back on the point to Daley.
Daley the shot.
Picked saved by Seco.
The rebound.
Shot to the point.
Played in the slot.
Knocked away by Jean-Parle.
And he clears it all the way down.
Rather than fool around anymore.
It'll be icing.
And the touch by Dennis Kearns.
I don't know if Bob continues to carry the play.
And to have many, many chances.
They scored five goals.
But I dare say I wouldn't be surprised if they had seven or eight at this point.
The ononers also are really hustling in this hockey game.
They were a little tight at the beginning.
And gave up a couple of goals.
Maravigarh got getting the first one of three minutes into the hockey game.
But the ononers have really fought back.
And have completely dominated this game.
Since about the ten minute mark of that first period.
And certainly in this second period they're really taking it to Vancouver.
Off the face off.
Back on the point.
Grisdale the shot is saved by Seco.
Now Warming up to start to make some excellent saves.
Rebound in the slot.
O'Flaherty moves back in.
On the point the shot by Plattis a bad one.
And it's stick broke.
And it's sent to center-ized.
Jump to center-ized by Eddie Westphal.
A reminder.
And I really have not made this point enough.
We will carry the game.
Thursday night from Vancouver our center-high show will begin at 10.45.
We will be live on the air from Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver.
Thursday night with game number two of this.
Best of three series.
Vancouver coming out of their own air.
Ahead for Arleson as the pass is broken up.
Gouin plays it in but is stated out by Grisdale right to the iron line.
Grisdale comes across.
Fluffing pass.
The shot.
Clothed by Seco.
And Seco plays it in back of the net but there was a quick whistle.
A very quick whistle by Lloyd Gilmore and the face off will be down in Islander End.
There's a brick in the action.
Score.
Islander five.
Vancouver two.
Come across the Vancouver line right side Gouin.
He goes in back.
Bodies on the play but Nick plays him back from Breezy.
Breezy hit by Grisdale but recovers.
And the slot.
Denny Potman.
He made a move.
It was the bucket off the stick by Johnny Gould as center ice.
Kept there by Hart.
Jerry plays it all the way back in his own air for Denny Potman.
Islanders have a five to lead with three ten remaining in the second period.
Ahead instead of a Gouin.
Checking out the play by Hopper.
Underflamin is left in the second period.
Arleson to the Islander line.
Ahead now for a match.
Last shot broken up by Jerry Hart.
Islanders playing much much better defense here.
Breezy starts to come out.
Breezy now.
White wing fans for Westfall.
Eddie comes across.
Loses to Settlebauer.
Settlebauer tries to clear cannot.
And now Settlebauer on the ice throws a stick at it.
Not to the Vancouver line.
Carrot is center by Harold Snips.
Gouin kicks it back to Denny Potman in his own air.
Gouin has been marvelous tonight.
Denny to center.
A lead for Niceburn just offside.
Blade in back of the net by Gary Howlett.
Howlett centers it in front as to f**k it wide.
We've met Howlett in back.
Howlett now tries to center it.
Sends it back to the point. Marshall shot saved by Ridley.
Down and all.
Blade to knees to stop it.
And back of the net. Howlett.
Howlett in back is belted now by Snips.
Huckins picked up though by Sal LaRoy.
He plays in the back of the cage.
Ticking away by Robichyne.
He clears his own as he jumps all the way down slowly to Islander end.
Stopped by Denny Potman.
Denny out of his own air.
And the pass missed by Sal LaRoy.
Goes all the way down to Niceburn.
He's been waved off by the Armstrong.
Niceburn really felt it snips and knocked him down.
A head now and center eyes for Blight.
A lead for Lever.
Lever this shot is broken up by John Popman's stick.
A rebound taken by Walton.
Back on the point the f**kers is shot tip wide.
Rebound him back.
Walton he centers it.
But the only one there is Gary Howlett.
And how it will come out.
A lead is broken up by a f**kers.
But as f**kers came across,
Ben Kueber goes offside.
Robert.
The Islanders very nearly had themselves a penalty just a little bit ago
when Jerry Harding's Braestail got in it.
And they're getting that confirmation of that
out of town score on the scoreboard.
They had originally put it up as a type of Grand Polaroid,
if you will, when it was 20 to nothing.
They just corrected it.
St. Louis, Leeds, Buffalo, 2 to nothing in that second period.
Only one penalty has been called in this second period.
We had six penalties called in the first period.
The Islanders have really come out smoking
to start this second period a minute 25 of it left to go.
Off the face of it.
And the Islanders have been centerized daily.
He sends a head for Lever. Lever comes across.
In front the shot is broken up by West.
Pretty safe.
Chico came out, f**ked down the angle.
Left Lever nothing to shoot at.
Here's a 3 on 2 break.
Nice one.
Head for Howlett.
Howlett comes in, gets builded by Daley.
Daley gets builded by Nice.
And the f**kers cleared on the left side of the net.
Now, in back of the net, Salah Rawan.
He and Daley come together.
Taking away by Howlett.
Howlett with under a minute.
Tries to center it, but it goes all the way down ice.
Under a minute, left in the second period,
and he's down to the left.
And the ball is set up by John Popman,
deflected coming down as Gillies closing in.
Fish up.
Went wide, and chipped in and goes over the glass.
One of the Chinook's defensemen fell down.
I don't want to look and see it.
It wasn't Daley, but it would be the other one.
I guess it's Dennis Jones who was on anyway.
And Gillies came down that left flank.
And even that much room to shoot at,
but he shot to the short side and went off Ridley's shoulder.
A puck was deflected just even before it really had a...
Ridley had much of a chance to make much of a save,
what it amounted to, I think.
It appeared that the puck might have hit his stick,
and he had stuck his stick out in front on an angle of sorts.
And then the puck would have hopped up in the air,
off of his stick, and off of his shoulder,
and then on up into the stands.
All right.
Shiny comes across the line.
The set on goal is wide.
Rebound.
Params out to the left point to heart.
He plays it along the boards with Gillies.
Gillies throws it back in that study.
Brian comes in back of the Vancouver neck.
He throws it, leaves it in back for Gillies.
Gillies trying to clear it out.
He does.
On the left side, Kadya acid.
Dennis Burns will skate it out of his own.
Denny Poppe had threw it back in,
but the puck had just come out before Denny Poppe had smacked it back in.
And so it is offside, and the face off will come in if you ice up.
In the second period, up in Toronto,
Pittsburgh was trailing 2-0,
and now the score is Toronto 3 and Pittsburgh 0-0.
All those games that we tell you about are the first of the best of three.
Qualifying round.
23 seconds remaining in the second period.
Islanders have a 5-2 lead.
They have scored the only three goals in the second period.
Off the face off to center ice to bug it in by Vancouver.
Rest, wait until the goal to clear the puck,
and heart ties to send it out of the zone.
Scott at the point by Daly and Gillies,
and they combine a freeze and in with 10 seconds remaining in the third,
the face off will be midway between the Islanders right face off circle
and the Islanders will learn.
Two short handed goals so far in this game.
Two power play goals, one for each side of the red variety,
and we've had three regular type goals scored by the Islanders,
and they lead it 5-2.
Off the face off, dumped in by Vancouver,
taken by Hart, right side of the net.
Looks to play it out, cannot.
Daly keeps it in his shot as tip wide,
and the buzzer of sound, the period ends.
In that period, the Islanders really dominated,
bumping the body, getting a lot of breaks.
Chico Redshaw became very, very secure in goal,
and it was all Islanders in the second.
Good old Opie, James O'Brien of the New York Post,
will be the guest of Bob Lawrence between the second and third.
Bob will also run down the goals, penalties,
shots on goal, etc.
And then he'll talk to Opie,
and then we'll get back for the third period
as the Islanders try to hold onto their 5-2 lead.
At the end of two of the policy,
the Islanders 5, and the Vancouver Canucks 2.
As you well know,
there are minutes and a half that you try to sit on a lead,
and that's when you're most vulnerable,
so the Islanders still must attack.
However, there are ways of attacking,
and still you're able to keep a man back, a two-man back.
They're not having all three forwards
far behind the net, the opposing net.
Islanders will begin with the veteran line,
Gracie Jern and Westfall.
Vancouver will begin with Adleston,
Johnny Gould and Ron Settlebar.
Those runners remain the same.
Ridley to go to our right, Rush to go to our left,
Islanders shoot it down.
Cleared to the goers by Ridley,
Niceham comes on immediately for Westfall,
looking to rest Eddie, I guess, in the beginning of this period.
But round around the goers,
Westfall, right wing, gets it down to the point to Marshall,
along to Juan and the right-side,
he centers it, but no one in the slot,
and he's going to be taken away by John Gould.
Gould is center, a long slapper,
well down by Chico.
Leaves him back for J.B. Lewis,
comes from behind the net,
is checked by Settlebar,
and he's been fucked loose behind the net,
taken away by Bert Marshall.
Islanders lead it five to as we begin the third.
Now, Niceham puts it to center-ice,
sending it all the way down to Vancouver,
and taken by Robichy.
Robichy is passing, broken up by Westfall.
Westfall comes across, one man to beat,
Westfall, the back-handed, saved by Ridley,
and he sweeps it clear to Harold Snets.
Westfall beats Snets, couldn't get it past Ridley,
he made a nice save.
In back of the net, Marisi,
Westfall now has rejoined his line,
and he's taken it back to center-ice for a moment.
They have been to get some equipment change,
round around the boards by Juann,
and Lewis can't keep it in the come-to-center-ice,
stopped by Marshall.
Lewis plays it right back in again,
taken there by Harold Snets.
Snets leads for Settlebar, broken up by Marshall,
with deflection to Islander,
and to the ice, taken by Davey Lewis.
He goes around his own net,
now makes a turn and heads up ice,
skating beautifully.
Davey Lewis, the Vancouver line,
a lead for Westfall.
This shot is broken up, rebound Lewis,
went wide, rebound Lewis in back of the net,
and then he's called.
Westfall in back, circles,
comes out to the left point,
right point Denny Potman, this shot!
Kick save Ridley, and it goes in the crowd.
There's a break in the action.
Where's this score?
The Islander is five, and Vancouver two.
Bob, the Islanders are picking up
right where they lost out in the second period,
pumping the bodies and getting good opportunities on goal.
They've got to do it too,
they've got to keep doing it.
In a sense, I think, I've taken Vancouver out of their game,
trying to close checking,
and they've done it by the use of the body,
and really, Vancouver's not giving it back.
Out the face off, in Vancouver,
and Howlett bangs it against the board,
tries to center it, he does,
but Salahroa knocked off the stick by Grisdale,
throws it in back for Tracy Pratt,
and Pratt quickly helps a rip,
like the center ice.
White net comes to the Island line,
here to the right, has it knocked off the stick
and sent to center,
and it will be skated to center by Gary Howlett.
Howlett, a lead, nice and onside,
this shot!
Saved by Ridley in front,
and hit him in the chest, and that hurt.
And the rebound is clear to center by Lever.
A head for Blight,
Blight comes across on the right,
takes the slapper,
tries to draw around Hardt,
and Hardt took it right off the stick.
He played the man beautifully.
Behind the net,
a great Salahroa.
A lead from Niceden,
Niceden comes to center.
Niceden comes to the Vanquieville Island,
the wrist shot is wide.
Carmes out left side,
after Blight and Howlett pair in memory,
hit the puck to center,
to walk the head for Lever across,
his slapper is broken up by Jenny Poppett.
And he leaves Niceden out of the zone.
Bobby comes across on the right side,
blind,
tries to throw it in front,
deflected by Tracy Pratt,
picked up and backed by Niceden.
Niceden cannot clear it,
or center,
and it will be skated out by Vervegard.
Dennis Vervegard takes the slapper,
comes across the line,
throws it in front,
but it's cleared by Burt Marshall.
Marshall leaves it in back of the zone,
and Niceden throws it against the board,
for Chetty, but not out.
Picked him by Vancouver,
and back of his own net,
Davey Lewis.
Lewis looks up Niceden,
throws it down Niceden,
icing his wave dog,
going all over the land,
everybody missed it.
Maybe Snut cuts the puck,
maybe that's why icing his wave dog.
Vancouver looks to clear their zone,
a head in center for Monaghan,
taken away by Lewis,
and back from the islanders.
Here's Gillies across the slapper,
quick line.
Carmes out right point to Harris,
Harris keeps it in by playing it
in back of the Vancouver net,
carming around on the wing,
played in back of the net now by Robotsy.
Gillies and Vermegar came together,
so they're reasonable to you,
and they're ready to go out each other.
Coming out of his own net now,
is O'Flaherty.
A lead for Monaghan,
Gary Monaghan across on the right side,
Johnson-Docs O'Flaherty.
O'Flaherty, check and nut on the seat of his
trans-bike, Johnny.
As I said, there are real body checks
tonight, third body checks,
out of his own end, Marshall.
A lead for Gillies,
Arthas Stickles all the way down.
In back of the net,
Robotsy tries to line it around the board,
as he does, on the left wing for Monaghan.
Monaghan comes up for the left wing,
comes over the line,
hears from the left side,
throws it in front,
glued by Clark Gillies,
and is going to be a penalty called
by Lloyd Gilmore, away from the play.
Trottier and Vermegar,
men in the slot,
Trottier is going off,
and it will be an island of penalty,
Robert, going to be a cross-checking penalty,
and Trottier,
starts streaking down the crease,
trying to get in front in position.
Brian Trottier steps in front of him,
and cross-checks him,
and they're calling an interference now,
in any event,
now, time of the penalty for 23.
Now, let's pause 15 seconds for station identification.
This is New York Island, Ahaki.
Sallie Jesse Rafael,
on from 1 to 3,
there's a marvelous program.
15.37.
Well, since Stanley cut game number one,
Island is holding a 5-2 liter of Van Gogh,
to drop the draw.
Daley's going to point the shot.
Goal!
Rest never sought a bullet from the right point,
from the blue line,
by Bob Daley,
and rest never sought a bullet by Daley,
and it is 5-3.
It only took him 4 seconds of that penalty
to get the score,
virtually off of face-off.
Daley gets his first goal of his playoff series,
and Adlerson will get the assist,
for winning the face-off.
And we're now a 5-3 Ahaki game.
Time of that goal is at 4.27,
up to third period,
the Islander's still with a 2-goal edge.
But as fans of that one would score,
the Islander's really up to watch out.
That's the second power play goal of the game,
the Islanders have given up.
About one day,
Islanders,
not characteristic of them,
to give up two power play goals in a game,
they had the best percentage of,
against power play goals,
this year.
And it has not worked that way tonight.
Islanders gotta keep trucking here.
They lead it 5-3,
but another goal on Vancouver is right on their backs.
Off the draw,
Islanders dump it in,
Vancouver now flips it out all the way down.
No Isomal would be called.
Wave got by Linesman,
you know, it's taken place.
And back to the zone at by Jerry Hart.
15-15,
Bustin Ahaki game,
5-3.
Islanders holding the 2-goal lead.
Daley from the Senate,
dumps it in,
tipped in by O'Flaherty,
laid behind the cage by Jenny Klottman,
Jenny leaves him back for Jerry Hart.
And head to San Juan,
a lead for Nysham,
now the return to San Juan.
And he comes across,
and as he comes across,
he loses to O'Flaherty,
but Nysham gets it back,
and he dumps it in.
After now,
San Juan picked up by Daley and back.
Daley passed out his Y,
defunded by Nysham,
but take away by O'Flaherty.
And head for Monahan,
Monahan, a long slap,
is dug down by Chico and Gull,
leaves him back for J.B. Lewis,
he winds it around the board,
but not out,
kept in by O'Flaherty,
and the shot saved by a wrist.
He had the quick blow,
then on the doorstep,
for Gary Monahan.
Here is a brick in the action,
with the score,
the hour is five,
and then two,
and we're three.
So,
the hour has come in,
and Shabahara is saved by Ridley,
and on the rebound,
Shadi A.
fuck just went wide,
taken out by Monahan.
Monahan up by his,
shot score settle bar,
he comes across,
he's shot on Gull,
weak one,
broken up by a wrist,
cleared by Chico.
Shadi A.
almost got that rebound,
he would have a goal for sure.
Shadi A.
wheezes away at ice,
comes across,
has it knocked away,
and sent to center ice
by Bob Murray.
Murray hasn't been on much,
he's a young defense team too.
To center ice now,
brick monster,
circles back,
and head now for Parisi,
and deep comes across,
a lead for Westfall,
broken up,
and dumped to center ice
by Arleson.
Taken in his own hand,
by Daley,
looked across ice by Murray,
and Murray skates it up.
He jumps it in off the board,
stopped by Chico and back,
leaves for Jerry Hart.
He's got a good shot,
leaves for Jerry Hart.
Hart and back in his own cage,
and Jerry comes out.
Now, head and center ice
for Westfall,
over skates,
is going to be taken back
by Vancouver.
Set about, guns it in,
on goal,
kicked saved by Chico.
Clears to it,
Jerry Hart,
and Hart looks up ice.
A lead for Parisi,
a dumps it in,
Patrick Jouin,
and back in a minute
with a robot attack,
cleared by Ridley,
to the far side.
Parisi keeps it in,
Parisi,
leaves for Jouin
along the right floor,
is now Parisi guns it around the boards,
kicked in by Denny Potman.
Denny, going way down deep,
loses to Setterbar,
and Setterbar comes out of his own.
Right head and center
for Oblacenor, Vancouver.
He leads Setterbar in too long,
and Hart will play it right back out again.
It's going to go all the way down,
and this definitely will be icing.
I'm attached by Tracy Front,
back to the zone there.
There is a break in the action,
with this score,
the Alun is five,
and Vancouver three.
Morphan has everything
for the great outdoors.
Whether you're a new tennis player,
or a seasoned pro,
you'll find everything you're looking for,
and it's low, low prices.
Hi, I'm John Stirling,
inviting you to see our famous brand,
and our large assortment.
We have all the tennis equipment
you'll ever need or want.
Tennis rackets, Wilson's head,
Davis many, many more.
Tennis apparel, tennis footwear,
and tennis accessories.
Morphan, big savings,
large assortment,
at the 11th great Morphan store,
is in New York,
Westchester, Connecticut, and you do.
John Stirling at Bob Lawson,
back at Nassau College,
Sam, the, uh,
and Jarr has been whistled down,
and there'll be another face-off
in deep down on the rice pad.
One of the things the Aluners
are trying to get back and maintain,
at least, is that pressure,
offensive pressure,
and Vancouver's in,
but they've lost their passing touch,
not spending the good passes
that they were early in the game.
Off the face-off,
hit around the face,
is Bratt.
Bratt, I guess, is okay,
as he skates back on deep ends.
He's got a stick.
Unavoidable, but the stick
caught him up high.
Here's Paris,
he's trying to come across the line.
He comes across,
pulls his way in on the left side.
Left face-off circle,
puts to center.
He's taken a duck there by Oblis,
and they jammed together.
Oblis and Parisie,
Jouin,
Blight,
and, uh,
Grisdale,
and there'll be a face-off
in deep down in Vancouver and Bob.
Looks like Parisie might have been
shaken up a little bit,
as he was coming in,
uh, across the blue line
with a puck,
when he got banged into the boards
by Blight,
and he went back and said something
to, uh, Jerry Hart.
What I'm not sure is if, uh,
cover me up or something or other,
now, uh, Hart is skated down
a far end of the ice,
and this is a little bit like
he might have been looking for something.
Well, you see guys on the, uh,
oh, he has found something.
His mouth guard.
That's what he lost.
He went back to retreating.
His mouth guard.
You know,
he could have lost, uh,
all hockey players at Falls C.
I say, oh, most hockey players
at Falls C.
I said,
but that happens, too.
But I guess it was a mouth guard.
In the third game,
they made the lead guard.
He's Toronto leads at this point,
three to one.
In the second bird,
in St. Louis at the arena.
St. Louis with the shotter.
By the way,
Cratt is going off the ice.
He got hit with a stick
up in his face,
and he's probably going to go
off his stitches.
He will be back.
He's skating more,
walking okay.
Now,
the on is going to make a change.
I couldn't give that score.
In the second period,
St. Louis leads Buffalo 2-0,
and that really would be a shotter.
Buffalo would go back
to the on-board.
And they'd have to win both games.
And that's pressure.
I don't care
whether the home ice
or not,
that's really pressure.
And especially
against a team like St. Louis,
who could have Buffalo
really spinning,
thinking,
hey, what do we do wrong
to be down again to this team?
That's a team everybody
wanted to play
first round.
It doesn't,
it never works out,
exactly.
Off the faceoff,
in Vancouver end,
taking by Robert's eye,
he just skips it high
to center ice.
That's like Denny Poppey
makes a circle.
Good move by Denny.
A lead bow,
Westfall across.
Westfall has it knocked
off the state
by
Adelson,
landed back to the cage
by
Robert's eye,
and now to center ice
to lead pass,
goes to Adelson,
comes across the island of line,
holds up to the left point,
tries to feed it through
St. Louis,
Westfall,
here's a breakaway,
one on none,
Westfall down ice,
the shot,
but why?
We've got
Bariisi,
placing him back
for Westfall,
he centers it,
is to fucking in front
by Snip,
played by Westfall in front,
and then he's gone.
Back to center,
settle down
for Van Cooley,
across the line,
knocked off his stick
beautifully by
Jerry Hart,
folkship,
ahead for Ise.
Here's a three on three,
Bariisi plays it in,
Westfall,
wait inside of an X,
looks to center it,
body down to play though,
by Bob Murray,
and sent to center ice
by Van Cooley.
Westfall
picked his spot,
but he shot it
a little high,
a little wide.
Now to center ice
comes,
shoot,
drill in for the
Epp Allenies,
three lead.
Allenies is going to be
offside,
as Langton is caught
in the zone,
Salaron banged it
all the way down.
Well,
I thought that
Westfall,
he's going to be cut off
by Snip,
he picked a good spot,
he just missed it.
I think the puck
just kind of
got away from him,
he might have been
hurrying it a little bit,
and the puck was up
on the edge of his stick,
and when he shot it,
it just tipped off the edge,
and it went wide
on the edge to the left
of Ridley,
had a golden opportunity though,
tough break.
Off the face off,
and it's a little bit of a
wilder shoot all the way down,
Ridley stopped behind it,
pick it up,
there's Murray behind,
loses,
Salaron banged together,
a lowlittle flowery,
and they combined it,
bruises.
Give me a face off again,
deep in Vancouver,
right?
Something that the
Allenies have been trying
to accomplish,
and I think it's beginning
to show signs that they
have accomplished it.
They came out hitting,
Van Kuber was hitting back,
now the Allenies
continue to hit,
Van Kuber now looks as if
they're looking for that
hit to come,
and they're more concerned
about getting banged
into the boards
off the drawback,
Kuber will skate it out,
Whelton comes down to
left side,
Whelton over the line,
Big Slapper is high
over the cage,
against the glass and back,
and Salaron's out to the point,
kept in by Blythe,
he plays it behind the
Allen of Caden,
played there by Burt Marzell.
Writers coming off the ice,
and now at the center,
I spend Salaron to help,
how it hits the spot,
shoots all the way down.
Behind it,
Niceman on the right side,
Niceman goes behind it,
looks to center it,
he does center it,
back to the point,
and Marzell,
the shot saved by Whelton,
he made a good save,
he came out and stopped that buck,
he cut the angle down very well,
Marzell didn't have a goal this year,
I don't believe it,
he almost had one there,
Vancouver kind of cleared this
all they do,
Whelton just tips the puck to center ice,
am I right about that?
That's right,
Ian Forte,
the only one who didn't score this year,
Marzell has had two good shots
tonight in the Stanley Cup game,
Allen is losing,
he center ice,
back comes Verbergar,
comes across the line,
jumps it in,
all the way down,
Marzell took Verbergar out of the play,
he's got that collar,
circles it in,
loses to O'Flaherty,
the shot saved in front by Arrest,
oh,
and the reason I've been taking it back,
Mike,
shot it in,
hit from behind by O'Flaherty,
loses control,
but taken away by Bert Marzell,
Marzell,
checked there by O'Flaherty,
and O'Flaherty hit about eight people
on that play,
and he,
by himself,
helped create a faceoff
deep in island of ice.
I'm not sure, John,
but I think that shot hit the post,
it looked like it,
that would be the third time
that post has been hit,
in the hate in this game,
twice by the O'Flaherters,
we got a third goalie out there,
and they were wearing a metal suit,
but it was on the short side,
and Arrest,
I got made to say,
but I think it did go across the,
the ball area,
the crease,
and it may have skimmed it,
that post has good points.
It was very close,
let's face it,
off the draw,
and Dr. Verbergar,
he tries to center it,
he cannot do it,
he's kicked away by Marzell,
and it's gonna be,
kept in by that,
and I'll watch him plays it out.
A lead for Gillies,
a cross the line big guy,
clock the shot,
his line,
Aaron's out right point,
kept in by Dennis,
throws in the slot for Harris,
Harris has it knocked away by
Snip,
penalty on Snip,
Snip,
Snip, Maris Harris,
now even though
Vancouver can't afford a penalty,
that might have been a good one,
Harris had almost
turned the corner on him,
Bobby,
and I got Harris,
he's gonna set up in front
and get a goal,
and Snip dragged him down.
Couldn't agree with you more,
it was not a good penalty,
necessarily under the circumstances,
but it was a good penalty to take,
because Harris is going in
for a good shot,
Snip had to get taken out of the play,
and then let the rest of the team
worry about killing this
two-minute penalty.
Snip gets two minutes for hooking it,
10-40,
and again the oner's bring out
the power play,
the most prolific in the
regular hockey season,
for the Lightning Company line
and the Poppin brothers on the points.
Oner's lead is five to three,
9-20 left to play,
and the third and final period,
Poppin, that only is a big one,
and most powerful power play
in the National Hockey League this year,
but they tied the record set last year
by Montreal of 92 power play goals,
and they came very close,
and that final game against Atlanta
getting 93,
but of course, close doesn't count.
Chottier on the faceoff with Overson,
right faceoff,
so the left side of Ridley off the draw,
Overson wins another draw,
he's something wound around by Van Coubert,
but not out,
kept in the right side of the net by Chottier.
Chottier plays it along the boards,
on the right side,
now taken away by Gould, Gould loses it back to Harris,
Harris in back of the net,
looks to set it up,
now the Oner's have it set up,
on the point, Denny Poppin,
right point and Sean,
in the slot,
Gillies chips wide,
rebound taken by Overson,
and then he will be able to clear it,
and he does, down ice to Gould,
Gould now opens it up and plays back
in his own end,
and sorry, Oner's always had a goal there though,
has a good pass set up.
Gould now plays it back to Grisdale,
circles in his own end,
circles, circles,
now Overson bangs at it and goes all the way down,
a minute 15 left out with Penelope,
just next.
Montaghan comes out now to help kill this penalty,
along with O'Flaherty,
the center ice comes to Sean Poppin,
a lead by Harris,
he comes across,
Gould now is knocked out as he went for the puck
and it sent to center ice by Van Coubert,
Sean Poppin carries it in again,
plays it against the boards and back of the net,
taken by Grisdale,
he looks to clear and he does.
Eight minutes and 10 seconds left in the game
and 48 seconds left in the penalty of snips.
Denny Poppin comes rolling up ice,
he has a lead,
Denny Poppin comes across the line,
fears to the left,
shoots on goal line,
rebounds to end,
and the Strat Westfall,
Westfall, back to Denny Poppin and left point.
Denny,
tries to throw it in front of Westfall,
knocked away,
picked up by Breesie and back,
Breesie and back of the net,
circles him back,
throws out, right point to Sean Poppin,
Denny's in front of the net,
right point to Sean Poppin,
left point to Dennis,
Dennis has set it up
and the pass is defrocked by Chewhan,
he didn't see Sean Poppin back there,
and it's sent down ice by Van Coubert,
with 14 seconds left.
One more rush perhaps,
Denny Poppin,
a lead for Westfall,
comes across,
has it defrocked by Lever,
taken back by Denny Poppin,
Denny Poppin comes in, loses,
and it is sent off the ice
by Johnny Gould as the penalty on snips
comes to an end.
There is a break in the action,
with the score, the added is 5,
and Van Coubert 3.
A lot of good opportunities,
but couldn't quite capitalize on them,
maybe one too many passes on that power play.
Off the jaw, nice and the shot,
hit Ridley, the rebound,
just went wide,
rebound, and across,
Gorma out by Haunt,
rebound is taken and cleared
by Snips,
Snips comes to center ice,
added is that 3 shots on goal,
for no more than 5 feet away,
one at Ridley and the chest,
saved in front of one one,
right across Gorma,
from the top angle by Haunt.
Haunt and Niceburn come up by,
his Haunt pass is too long,
going to go all the way down,
let's see if it's icing,
no, Niceburn reaches it first,
and back to Haunt,
leaves for Niceburn,
left side of the net,
Niceburn comes out,
white checks the puck away,
and it comes to center ice,
ahead for Wolk,
he comes over the line on the left side,
tosses back,
it's taken away by Niceburn.
Here's a 2 on 2,
ahead for Salarot,
3 on 2,
now Salarot on the slot,
ahead for Haunt,
Haunt,
left side is played on the play by
Blight loses control,
Haunt,
dimes together with Grisdale,
the puck is now carried out by Wolk,
here's a 3 on 2 vancouver,
Walton the middle man,
Walton the cross,
White wing Blight,
the shot,
there's Haunt and Hellbiter,
rushing it as an E-hole time,
there's a break in the action,
score,
Islander is 5,
and Vancouver 3,
played right back in again by Bob Murray,
Haunt and Dave Popman on defense,
Chico and Gorma,
the lightning cut lead the line,
Gillies,
check the 8-ounce,
down the left side,
Gillies the cross,
gears to the left board,
plays it through for Chottier,
bang back the other way,
Gillies recovers,
and he plays it in back of the vancouver net,
stopped by a Ridley,
after Chottier and Murray,
they bang together on the boards heavily,
in back of the vancouver net,
now Chottier is held there,
against the boards,
the puck is frozen for a faceoff,
not a hand,
just the size,
Chottier is heading as the board,
I think Lloyd Gilmore blew the whistle,
just to prevent any more from happening,
he really happens to have frozen the puck,
against the boards,
but the elbows were getting the rule,
a lead for Gillies, right side,
Gillies pass,
Southern pass broken up by Settelbar,
and Settelbar rushes to Settelbar,
now the island of line,
comes across,
gears to the right side,
grows to the right boards,
the par boards,
back on the point of Daly,
Daly flips it in on goal,
glove by Chico,
and cleared by Danny Fontman,
a lead for Parisi,
goes right on net,
all the way down ice,
Parisi missed it,
but it went right on net,
no icing there as Ridley was forced to make the save,
just over five minutes remaining in the hockey game,
and the ball was hit at five three,
puck loose and center ice,
Gould, back to the island of net,
now sends a head for Adlerson,
now lead for Lever,
is broken up by Danny Fontman,
Dennis has been great tonight,
head for DeWine,
across, this shot is high,
off the glass and back on the cage,
Ridley in back,
can't get control,
it's dumped across to the par boards by Daly,
and he sends out Lever to center,
loses to Burt Marzl,
Marzl plays off the boards,
and Neutralis,
kept him by Gould,
now Gould plays across to Lever,
Lever comes across the line,
has it knocked off the stick,
and has dumped the center ice to nice turn,
a little too long,
or the islanders would have had a two on one,
Vancouver shoots it all the way down,
the islander in,
stopped by Wress,
picked up by Jerry Hart,
looks up ice,
carams off the boards,
and that goes all the way down,
again it was kicked in center ice,
and icing is waved off by Neil Armstrong,
four fifteen left in the game,
the islanders closing in on a win in the first game,
now to center ice Lewis,
and he dumps it in,
stopped by Snets,
at his own blue line,
Snets starts to come up ice,
Snets plays it into islander,
and taken by Walton,
Walton ridden off the plate by Davy Lewis,
Davy at his own goal line,
goes in back to the net,
under four minutes remaining in the game,
and back to the islander,
and Davy Lewis holds,
waits for his teammates to get themselves together,
and now he sends across to Marzl,
Marzl leads it out,
Marzl to center,
and he just dumps it in,
after it is nice turn,
and Snets,
they bang together,
puck is taken by Santa-Raw,
and he dumps right side when ice to him,
nice turn played by Snets,
and really felt it by Snets,
with the elbow up high,
and the puck is frozen against the near boards,
floor face-off,
and deep bang to Bryce,
break in the action,
score, islanders five,
and two for three.
He's a pop fan,
who a Denny pop fan has played,
an incredible hockey game as per usual,
to the surprise of not too many people,
I'm sure,
coming back out on the ice tonight,
Denny has really done it all defensively,
he's come up with two assists
in this hockey game so far tonight,
made some great passes,
he's really playing a super family cup playoff game.
Off the jaw,
Ireland is trying to control
that Monahan will skate it out of Vancouver,
loses to Harris,
right near his own blue line,
and Baton Cross comes trotting,
he loses to Berbergard,
now baton the other way, Monahan,
and for O'Flaherty,
his slapper broken up by Denny Poppin,
and he really felt it O'Flaherty,
and not him spinning,
puck sails back to Vancouver,
and sent up to O'Flaherty,
a lead for Monahan,
broken up by Killies,
and he just bangs it all the way down,
this will be icing,
and by the time that Pratt makes a touch,
he is back on the ice,
three minutes, one second,
the remaining in the game,
three-oh-one left,
Highlanders have a far three lead,
the face off will be to the left side
of Chico Reds in the Islander goal,
right face off circle,
deep Islander ice,
I don't want to second guess anybody,
but it wouldn't be too surprising
if Maloney, the coach of the Canucks,
doesn't decide to pull his goal
early in the soccer game,
they've got to take any of his goals,
they've got to take any of some kind of chances,
in this kind of a short series,
that's two out of three,
there isn't too much of a tomorrow,
the Islanders have a two goal lead,
three minutes to play,
off the face off,
Killies plays off the boards,
and dumps the center ice,
now the Islanders can afford to
massive the blue line,
and just play it out to center ice,
and not try to skate it out,
but pass it out,
Pratt looks to come across,
he does, and he plays it in,
after it's ready,
Brian is in debt to his own act,
Highlanders only want to do one thing,
and that's get the puck out of their zone,
Lewis turned back by Brevard,
throws across the bar,
plays off the board softly to Westfall,
he comes to center,
Westfall now plays to the Vancouver line,
the Islanders make a change,
and the puck is frozen for a face off,
one thing Bob will see,
we're going to see very quick changes
by Islander coach Al Arbott,
to get very fresh skaters on ice,
the ships will not last very long anymore,
all the Islanders want to do is,
is really play Katie Barbador here,
they're going to do a 50-80 defense,
and hustle like crazy,
they really got to change fast,
keep the pressure on,
and be able to be fresh fruits on the ice,
to hustle the puck down the end.
Juan wins the draw in center,
and Jenny Potman jumps in on goal softly,
Ridley clears,
and back in the Dennis Fern,
lets it go past him,
picked up by Lever,
and he dumps to center,
I stop there by Potman,
he plays it in,
and it will be taken by Dennis Fern,
Fern plays it out,
the others are knocked back by Juan,
Juan comes in,
Juan in front, Juan in shot,
save by Ridley,
rebound Westfall,
can't control as Fern's cleared it,
and the puck is sent to center ice by Vancouver,
almost, Dennis Fern's been a nice play as Westfall,
was on the verge of wrapping that home,
back in the zone,
Burt Marshall,
Burt looks up,
sends out Juan to center ice,
left wing Bresi,
and Bresi plays it all the way down,
only a minute 40 remaining in the game,
Fern's behind his zone,
Islanders have made another change,
they're getting new lines out as quickly as they can,
Sallaroff keeps it into Vancouver end,
throws it cross-ice,
it avoided Nistrom,
and Blythe sends out to center ice,
Blythe, to the red line,
Blythe falls the out of the line,
Biers who is right side,
throws it back to Walton,
jumps in back of the net,
or Blythe has it,
he centers it back to the point,
daily in the shot,
save in front by Sallaroff,
and he skates out,
it's gonna be a Islander penalty,
Islander penalty,
Blythe was not down,
Islanders start to come out three on one,
Sallaroff shaking up on the ice,
getting slowly to his knees,
and the penalty door is open,
and Davey Lewis will go up for the Islanders,
and watch out,
and now's the time,
I have seen people pull their glories,
and go with two extra skaters.
Thank you, pardon, for the remainder of the game,
Lewis getting two minutes for hooking at 1846,
so the Islanders really gotta play
close to the checks now,
we'll keep an eye on the goal,
to see if Ridley is pulled,
in this last minute, 14.
The Islanders are somewhat accustomed
to be facing that sort of thing,
they've had a number of times this year,
when they were on the ice with a two man disadvantage,
not when the goalie was off the ice,
but a two man disadvantage,
and they were able to kill it on innumerable occasions,
you can bet one of the guys will be out there,
he is, Denny Poppan,
and Bert Marshall on the back of the box,
with Lauren Anning and Eddie Westfall out front.
Vancouver gets Dennis Verbergart out on his off wing,
and this enemy of Storrs out,
Adlerson, Verbergart, Gould, Kearns and Daley,
off the draw, Denny Poppan whistles it down ice.
The Islanders are cleared,
the penalty time doesn't matter,
because David Lewis will be out there
for the rest of the game,
the Islanders have a two goal lead,
now it is under a minute left in the game,
Marshall's sent it down ice again,
I would say if Vancouver comes up ice,
and sees it in the Islander,
Gould has it in his own end,
turn back, now Ferns will stay down,
I bet Ridley's going to come up,
and here comes Ridley,
Ridley comes off,
Vancouver plays it in,
and they come in offside.
Adlerson was met by Denny Poppan,
at the blue line,
and he was forced to hold up before coming in,
and Ridley is off the ice,
now it seems he goes back,
no he doesn't.
As you mentioned, Denny held up Verbergart coming in,
or Adlerson rather,
and it was on the right side,
Gould who had gone in over the blue line,
anticipating that the puck would cross the blue line,
and the Islanders got a break out of that.
Face off just outside,
the Islander line,
taken in by Verbergart,
I head down Verrard,
and I hope back by any,
and it's sent to center ice now,
off into the Islander bend,
Denny Poppan,
and Dennis Kerns combined,
looked it off the ice,
the face will be in the exact place,
we had it before,
only 37 seconds of making of the game,
Islanders playing a man down,
but they have a two goal lead,
they are playing two men down now,
because Ridley is off the ice,
Vancouver does not have a net-minder,
Vancouver has six skaters,
the Islanders have four,
Face off at the Islander blue line,
Face off is taken by what,
and he plays it in,
behind the net, Verrard Marshall,
Marshall behind the net,
turns it off the board,
but not out.
Verbergart now looks,
tries to throw in the slot,
taken away by Denny Poppan,
throws it down ice,
it's going to be off net,
going to be off net,
but it won't be icing,
because the Islanders are a man down,
15 seconds remain in the game,
the Islanders are going to win game number one,
of this three game series,
ahead to center now,
comes Lever,
down to left side,
with eight seconds remaining,
Islanders break it out,
ahead for Henning,
he can get another goal,
the shot is, hit the post,
paramed up,
the game ends,
and the Islanders have won.
Lorney Henning broke out,
along with Denny Poppan,
Lorney threw it down ice,
and it hit the post,
and paramed up to the right side,
the time ran out,
and the Islanders have won the first,
Stanley Cup game,
in this best of three,
playoff,
qualifying series,
for the quarterfinals
in the National Rockets,
by winning five to three.
Before we do anything else,
why don't we break the station,
okay, let's pause 15 seconds,
for a station identification,
this is New York Islander Huck.
WMCA New York,
this is Barry Gray,
join me right after the game,
for the best talk in town.
Let me remind you now,
I will remind you,
after we play back all the goals,
but let me remind you right now,
we will carry,
live on WMCA,
game number two,
of this best of three series,
from Vancouver, British Columbia,
we will be on with a centerized program,
beginning at 10.45,
your time, 7.45,
of course, Vancouver, jelly,
10.45, we will carry the game,
and if the islanders win it,
they will win the series,
if they lose it,
the third game will be back here,
at the National Rock Coliseum,
at 2.10,
it will be on the air,
beginning at 1.45.
The islanders are beating Vancouver,
five to three,
we will replay all the goals,
and have all the other information for you,
when we get back,
right after these messages.
The landing room only,
at the Coliseum,
the fans went home with a tummy full of excitement tonight,
and certainly satisfied,
as the islanders have defeated the Vancouver Canuts,
they could not do it during the regular season,
but they did it rather impressively tonight,
here at the Coliseum,
beating Vancouver,
in the first of this best of three series,
five to three.
Now we're going to play back the goals,
the islanders have won at five, three,
now who knows what's going to happen in the series,
who knows what's going to happen in any short series,
any team,
Washington and KC,
they can beat any team too,
in a two out of three series,
but I think the islanders started off,
so terribly, terribly tight,
and Vancouver,
had two goals on two long shots on Chico,
two breaks,
off sloppy play by the islanders,
and still they came back and bumped,
and shot the puck tonight,
they really shot the puck,
and they've got to be,
a great frame of mind anyway,
and they're going to play the next game,
in Vancouver,
third tonight,
I have no idea who's going to win the game,
if I did,
why bother to play the games,
and play the series,
but anyway,
I think it was something,
the way the islanders came back,
and came back by playing really aggressive,
dynamic,
not scared,
you know,
I think that's what Biltory and Al Arbor
meant about the game against the Russians,
and the islanders,
although they played a nice game,
and it was two to one,
but they didn't play the trumping,
banging,
bruising,
shoot the puck,
fly in,
they did that recently,
against Philadelphia,
and it worked out very well,
pulled them in that particular hockey game,
and it's a welcome sign,
for the islanders,
if that's going to be the style of play,
for the rest of the series,
it's going to end Thursday night.
All right, you'll hear the excitement,
and the crowd,
as we will replay the goals now,
and to introduce them,
here is Robert Lawrence.
Robert,
Canucks got the first goal of the hockey game,
at 2.58 of the first period,
it was their leading score,
during the regular season,
Verva Guard,
and his first goal of the playoff series,
on the assist from Kearns and Blight,
and here's how it occurred.
All right, pleasing back to Denny Poppett,
he winds around for Westfall,
and the islanders see clear,
and they do.
Here comes Westfall,
the center,
his pass is deflected,
or heading right ahead of breakaway.
Kearns comes across,
Kearns a drop pass,
Verva Guard,
Goal!
Denny's Verva Guard with a bullet,
from the right side,
off the drop pass,
and Van Koeber leads one-nothing.
That's what happened so very fast,
I don't think many of the fans in the
Dallas team might have even seen that goal.
Verva Guard putting Van Koeber ahead,
one-nothing.
Jerry Hart,
tied it up almost three minutes to the
second, later.
He's off now,
and deep bang Koeber is taken by Denny Poppett,
on the left board,
he lifts the throw across,
he lifts the heart.
Heart has a shot!
Goal!
Heart to goal!
Jerry Hart, on a pass from Denny Poppett,
a blue line bullet from the left side,
Bradley Neuerson,
we're tied at one-one.
Back on the point now,
at Denny Poppett,
but it's not the way,
and it's at the center-right,
and here comes Gould,
one-on-one,
he places the left,
the shot,
Goal!
Short-handed goal by Johnny Gould,
he faked and shot a bullet pass,
and the Islanders have given up a
short-handed goal.
Denny Poppett trying to keep it in,
and couldn't,
and Gould broke out two-on-one.
Now, Arthur Jarr,
Harris sneaks it in,
the shot,
Goal!
It went in,
up Ridley!
Harris sneaked in on the right side,
and shot it off Ridley.
It hit Ridley behind in the skate,
and went in.
Oh, my goodness,
what a beginning to a Stanley Cup series.
Harris, with no angle at all,
shot it off the backside of Ridley's
skate into the net.
And until it settles,
sudden death overtime.
How it is about 20 seconds to kill
off the penalty of Denny Poppett,
and the shot man, as they begin,
they send in Denny.
Here's the shot,
Goal!
Out of the goal!
Goal!