From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
Subject: Excitement on the Isle (TB/NYI 11/7)
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:31:25 GMT

Islanders fans might not like the result, but they probably will say it was
an exciting ending. Here're the Lightning mailing list game notes for those
that might have missed it.

Tom
(me? a homer? I'm still a Bruins fan first (since the 70's), a Rangers fan
next (since the pre-SportsChannel days..84/85?), and a Flames fan (from the
Atlanta days) third... Only two people had a cow from the last post, everyone
else just sat back and laughed. Let's see how many Islanders fans get bent
out of shape...)

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What an exciting game this was. The Lightning tied 2-2 yesterday in Washington
and it was another one of those games that could have been a win. Crossman
got the day off yesterday and boy did it show. Hamrlik was scratched. Crisp
considered starting Littman in goal, but let Jablonski. The Islanders were
coming of back-to-back shutouts.

In the first period, Malakhov scored for NYI at 12:21 on the power play from
Turgeon and Thomas. As the period was winding down, TB was on the power play
when NYI took another penalty with 13 seconds remaining on the first. Bob
Beers scored from the point from CROSSMAN and Bradley at 17:14. With a few
seconds left on the second penalty, Beers scored again from CROSSMAN and
Bureau at 19:00. Things looked good, but NYI got another goal from Volek at
19:42 from Turgeon and Malakhov. A TB defenseman was interfered with as the
play was set up, but nothing was called. 2-2 was the score with only one
regular strength goal.

In the second period, Bradley scored for TB at 5:04 on the power play from
CROSSMAN and Tucker. At 11:26, CROSSMAN scored from Creighton and Tucker at
regular strength (what!?) to make it 4-2. NYI closed the gap to 4-3 with a
power-play goal by Ferraro from Krupp and Flatley at 17:57. NYI took a penalty
to close out the period, 4-3 TB.

In the third period, CROSSMAN scored a power-play goal at 0:25 from Bureau and
? to make it 5-3. That didn't last long though as NYI got a power-play goal
by Volek from ? and ? at 3:06 to make it 5-4. That looked like it would be
the final score although NYI put on a lot of pressure as the game wound down.
Kontos missed a length-of-the-ice empty-net shot to bring a face off in TB's
end with about 13 seconds left. After a lot of pressure, a TB defenseman was
penalized for covering the puck in the crease with 7 seconds left. This
resulted in a penalty shot. It was converted by Turgeon to tie the score at
6-6. It looked like another win had slipped away.

In OT, the ref made his second bad no-call when a TB player was hooked on
a 2v1. He wasn't pulled down and the NYI player caught up to him. The TB
player ended up taking a high-sticking minor because the chance was ruined.
About 7 seconds later, NYI was penalized for tripping right after the face off.
It wasn't really a make up call because the player was really dumped from
behind. While skating 4v4, Andersson carried the puck into the NYI zone and
took a high stick to the face. Trottier (the ref) had his arm up for the
penalty as play continued. After almost scoring a couple of times, CROSSMAN
scored the game winner on a delayed penalty to win the game 6-5 (missed the
time and assists). If there was not a delayed penalty, Crossman probably does
not go all the way into the crease to bang in the loose puck. (now that I
think about it, it was the 3rd bad no-call. NYI had a player tripped (I think)
and it wasn't called. It was into the second half of the 3rd period when the
ref has usually swallowed his whistle.)

The player of the game was obviously Doug Crossman who had a hat trick and
assisted on the other three goals. Of the 11 goals, 7 were on the power play,
1 was a penalty shot, 1 was a delayed call, and 2 were even strength (the
normal boring kind 8-). 5 of TB's 6 goals were scored by defenseman with all
of those but the game winner coming from the point. The second star was Bob
Beers, who continues to excel since coming to TB from Boston. The third star
was David Volek of the Islanders with 2 goals.

TB evened its OT record at 1-1-2 and improved to 6-8-1 overall.

Tom
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