Knicks/Islanders Recap

ISLANDERS: Coming off their biggest win of the short season so far over the Rangers the Isles parlayed that with an overtime win of the Capitals. The Islanders woul trail 1-0 and 3-2 . Danish born Frans Neilson would have 2 goals, while Kyle Okposo and Mark Streit would each tally a one as well with Streit's being the game winner :53 seconds into the sudden death session. Assisting on the goal would be John Taveres and Radek Martinek. Once again Dwayne Roloson would "stand on his head" recording 37 saves on 40 shots to get the win, his 2nd in the last 2 games and improving his record to 3-1-3. He played beautifully in the 3rd period. The Isles improves to 3-4-5 for 11 pts which ties them with the Philadelphia flyers and puts them only 3 pts behind the 3rd place NJ Devils. In their last 4 games the Islanders are 2-0-2 which is good for 6 pts. They host the Buffalo Sabre's tomorrow night on Halloween at the Nassau Colliseum.

Neilson No 51, with Sean Bergenheim

KNICKS: I had high hopes for this game and they were dashed early, VERY EARLY being down 32-13 after one. Some how though the Knickerbockers were able to come back with great 3pt shooting and solid defense. As the game would go into overtime. Danillo Gallinari had a pretty decent look as time expired for the attempt to win the game. Nate and Gallinari played well off the bench scoring 17 and 16 respectively. David Lee put up his first of what will be many double doubles as he score 17 and snagged 18 boards. Chris Duhon would score 13 with 8 asts  The end of the 1st OT seemed doomed from the start as a near back court violation along with a turnover with a few seconds left would prime the Bobcats for a potential game winning shot, but it was missed and we would head to our 2nd OT session. Charlotte would take an early lead but Gallinari would lead them back. Duhon would tie it up late but Al Harrington's foul of DJ Augustein with less then 3 seconds left would seal the game for the Bobcats. This was truely a heart breaker. Knicks fall to 0-2

David Lee