From: jca2@cec1.wustl.edu (Joseph Charles Achkar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Blues lose to Islanders 4-3 in OT
Keywords: Blues, Islanders, Hull, Shanahan
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:04:53 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO


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This neutral site game wasn't televised. This is a report by Dave Luecking 
from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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    DALLAS -- First, the Blues got mad. Then, they got even. But try as they
might, they couldn't beat the New York Isladners.

    Derek King's goal at 2 minutes 33 seconds of overtime gave the Islanders a
4-3 victory over the Blues in a National Hockey League neutral-site game at
Dallas' Reunion Arena.

    Nelson Emerson scored the tying goal with the Blues short-handed with 4:18 
to play. The Blues were short-handed because of Kevin Miller's retaliatory
strike against Islanders rookie defenseman Darius Kasparaitis.

    Kasparaitis knocked the Blues' Brett Hull out of the game for more than 6
1/2  minutes in the third period. Kasparaitis rammed Hull against the end
boards with a hard check from behind at 12:36 of the final period.

    Hull lay face down on the ice for several minutes while trainer Tom Nash
attended to him. Referee Paul Stewart called no penalty, so the Blues took
justice into their own hands.

    First, Philippe Bozon shoved and yapped at Kasparaitis on a play stoppage,
and Kasparaitis got an earful whenever he passed by the Blues' bench.

    Brendan Shanahan went after him next, but he got more of the glass than he
got of Kasparaitis. The result was a play stoppage while workers fixed the
glass.

    Finally, Miller struck Kasparaitis on the face with 5:11 to play. Emerson
scored his second short-handed goal of the season, and it looked as if the
Blues would come out of the game with at least a point.

    But after Islanders goalie Glenn Healy survived a flurry, the Islanders
came back on a two-on-one break. Pierre Turgeon slid a quick pass to King, who
put the winner past goalie Curtis Joseph.

    Vladimir Malakhov, Brian Mullen and Steve Thomas also scored for the
Islanders. Shanahan and Hull scored the other goals for the Blues, who finished
their six-game trip with a record of 2-4.

    The loss dropped the Blues to 11-16-4 for 26 points, two behind the
fourth-place Toronto Maple Leafs in the Norris Division standings.

    The Islanders became the first team to sweep neutral-site games and
improved to 12-15-4 for 28 points, fifth in the Patrick Division. The Islanders
beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 Sunday in Oklahoma City.

    For the fifth time on the trip, the Blues scored the game's first goal.

    Shanahan scored on a deflection at 10:14. Shanahan started the play,
winning a faceoff with rookie Marty McInnis to the left of Healy.

    Emerson slid the puck back to Rick Zombo, whose low wrist shot was
deflected by Shanahan under Healy for his 15th goal of the season.

    Only superior goaltending by Healy kept the game close in the first period.
The Blues outshot New York 15-9, and Healy handled several quality chances.

    Not surprisingly, considering the way Hull's season has gone, Healy stopped
five great scoring chances by Hull with the Blues on power plays.

    Healy made three big stops in a sequence with Mick Vukota off for tripping
at 13:27. Later, he poke-checked Hull on a break-in and made a glove save on a
rocket from the slot.

    Healy stopped Rich Sutter and Bozon on a back-to-back backhands early in
the period. He tipped with his glove a shot by Craig Janney and gloved the puck
when teammate Jeff Norton accidentally knocked the rebound toward the empty net.

    He also made a save on a Jeff Brown slap shot while playing with the bottom
half of a broken stick when the Blues had a five-on-three advantage late in the
period.

    Despite getting nine shots, the Islanders rarely tested Joseph in the first
period.

    It was a different story in the second. The Islanders outshot the Blues
13-7 in the period and scored two successive goals to take a 2-1 lead before
the Blues tied it late in the period.

    Penalties to Brown and Lee Norwood in a 45-second span cost the Blues early
in the period. Malakhov rattled a shot off the near post on a shot from the
right circle with the Islanders playing five-on-three at 4:14.

    Then, Vitali Prokhorov failed to cut off a McInnis pass to Patrick Flatley
behind the net in the Blues' zone, and Flatley sent a quick centering pass to
Mullen. Joseph didn't have a chance as Mullen scored at 8:39.

    A bad call against Bozon at 14:13 seemed to inspire the Blues. Malakhov
checked Bozon against Healy, but Stewart called Bozon for charging the
goaltender.

    The Blues killed the penalty and went on the attack. Healy survived the
initial barrage, but he couldn't stop Hull on a backhand with 56 seconds in the
period.

    After Ron Wilson won a faceoff from Turgeon to the left of Healy, Norwood
passed the puck to Hull behind the net. Hull skated in front and slid a
backhand past Healy on the far side for his 17th goal of the season.

    Thomas restored the Islanders' lead, 3-2, at 5:19, scoring on the rebound
of a bad-angle shot by  Norton. Joseph deflected the rebound into the slot with
his blocker.

    Kasparaitis' big hit soon followed, and the Blues' finally tied the game on
Emerson's short-handed goal, forcing the overtime.

Box score
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Islanders 4, Blues 3

NY ISLANDERS     0      2      1      1 -- 4
BLUES            1      1      1      0 -- 3

FIRST PERIOD

    B -- Shanahan 15 (Zombo, Emerson) 10:14

    Penalties -- Ron Sutter (B), elbowing, 0:51; Zombo (B), high-sticking
11:07; Vukota (NYI), tripping, 13:27; Korolev (B), interference, 16:03
McInnis (NYI), holding the stick, 17:49; Turgeon (NYI), tripping, 19:10.

SECOND PERIOD

    NYI -- (PPG) Malakhov 7 (Krupp, King) 4:14
    NYI -- Mullen 6 (Flatley, McInnis) 8:39
    B -- Hull 17 (Norwood, Wilson) 19:54

    Penalties -- Brown (B), hooking, 2:53; Norwood (B), high-sticking, 3:38
Flatley (NYI), interference, 4:29; Butcher (B), high-sticking, 4;29;
Healy (NYI), delay of game, 10:38; Bozon (B), charging, 14:13.

THIRD PERIOD

    NYI -- Thomas 13 (Norton, Kasparaitis) 5:19
    B -- (SHG) Emerson 14 (Zombo) 15:42

    Penalties -- Green (NYI), hooking, 1:47; Nylund (NYI), cross-checking,
6:03; Butcher (B), tripping, 10:55; Miller (B), high-sticking, 14:49.

OVERTIME

    NYI -- King 18 (Turgeon, Fitzgerald) 2:33

    Penalties -- none.

Power-Play Opportunities -- Blues 0 of 7; Islanders 1 of 8.

SHOTS ON GOAL

NY ISLANDERS     9      13       5       1 -- 38
BLUES           15       7       9       0 -- 31

    Goaltenders -- Blues, Joseph (8-13-3; 38 shots-34 saves); Islanders,
Healy (9-9-1; 32-29).

    Referee -- Paul Stewart.

    Linesmen -- Mike Civik and Gerard Gauthier.

    A -- 11,251.

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