Preview: Bruins face Islanders in pre-Thanksgiving showdown
One more before the holiday!
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- When: Tonight, 7 PM
- Where: UBS Arena - Elmont, NY
- How to follow: NESN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
- Opposing perspective: Lighthouse Hockey
Know your enemy
- 13-8-2, 28PTS, 3rd in the Metropolitan Division
- Bo Horvat: 14G-11A-25PTS: Mathew Barzal: 6G-11A-17PTS; Kyle Palmieri: 6G-11A-17PTS
- Ilya Sorokin: 7-6-2, 2.67 GAA, .905 save percentage
Game notes
- A Thanksgiving Eve showdown! Prior to enjoying a day off for American Thanksgiving, the Bruins will visit SCENIC Long Island for a their last game against the New York Islanders this season.
- It’s a bit of a weird scheduling quirk to have all of these games front-loaded into October and November. The B’s and Isles faced each other twice in a week in late October and early November; they’ll play each other tonight, then that’s it for the season (potential playoffs excluded, of course).
- The B’s won both of the previous two meetings between these two teams: 5-2 at TD Garden and 4-3 in a shootout on Long Island.
- The latter, you may remember, featured some bad blood, with Nikita Zadorov roughing up rookie standout Matthew Schaefer, Isles fans flooding Zadorov with messages on social media, and Zadorov posting that Isles fans needed to support their team, as playing at UBS Arena was like a “library.” Modern sports, man.
- Emil Heineman, part of the Noah Dobson trade with Montreal, has been a nice pick-up for the Isles. The 24-year-old Swede has 9G-6A-15PTS in 23 games. His previous best was 18PTS, recorded last season in 62 games for the Habs. Olé.
- The Islanders are on a nice run of late, winners of three of their last four games and seven of their last ten.
- Kyle Palmieri, who always seems to score against the Bruins (don’t check me on that in case I’m wrong), has four points (1G-3A) in his last five games.
- In related “always scores against the Bruins” news, yes, Jean-Gabriel Pageau is still on the Islanders.
- There isn’t a ton new happening with the Bruins, as they avoided major injuries on the California trip and guys like Viktor Arvidsson, Casey Mittelstadt, and Charlie McAvoy remain out.
Hopefully your Thanksgiving prep is firmly under control and you can enjoy some hockey this evening.
See ya tonight!
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