It was another Game 2 of another playoff series of the second round three years ago when Alain Vigneault was on the wrong end of another late third period of goal-scoring from Jean-Gabriel Pageau. Flashback City. It was 2017, Vigneault was behind Rangers’ bench, Pageau played for Ottawa, and not …
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Todd Reirden was brought in to replace Barry Trotz, who taught his former understudy in this year’s playoffs. Well, Reirden is a goner. The Washington Capitals fired Reirden as head coach Sunday after being ousted by Trotz’s Islanders in the first round of the NHL playoffs. Reirden lasted just two …
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The Islanders play, in fact, three games in the regular season against the Flyers this season and accidentally won all three. But in a year like 2020, they could be as old history, and the Islanders plan to treat them as such, as they prepare for the Flyers on Monday …
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Barry Trotz won the Stanley Cup two years ago with a star-studded Capitals roster. Now he has sent them home early with a largely unheralded roster depicting the team. The Islanders, who learned they will play the Flyers in the next round after Philadelphia eliminated the Canadiens on Friday, have …
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Cal Clutterbuck fell victim to a low hit by Radko Gudas past the boards late in the second period of the Islanders’ 3-2 loss to the Capitals in Game 4 Tuesday night and went to the locker room, where he played for the rest of the match. The fourth-line winger …
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