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Video- Weird Goal Of The Night
by Paul on 03/14/12 at 12:00 AM ET
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Moulson with the tip, off the end glass and off Neuvirth.
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The Islanders Have A Hockey Player In Matt Moulson
by Paul on 12/14/11 at 09:39 PM ET
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from Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated,
Maybe the Islanders, who began the week 14th in the Eastern Conference, are moving in the right direction. But in comparison to, say, Minnesota or Florida, it seems like turning around the fortunes of this franchise is more difficult than making a K-turn with a battleship.
“Sometimes (winning) is a slower process,” Islanders left winger Matt Moulson says. “Some teams find it quicker. In our case, it’s been slow but steady, a matter of really finding the right people that fit together.”
Moulson is a reminder that a team does not have to be egregious in order to find players.
Of course, Moulson might have been harder to find than most. As a boy growing up in the sprawling Toronto suburb of Mississauga, virtually every team in the Greater Toronto Hockey League cut him. As a teenager, hardly a squad in the 416 or 905 area codes didn’t tell him to take a hike.
When he was 16, Moulson had to drop down a letter, to the AA level, which is not exactly the fast track to having your own hockey card.
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Video- Moulson With Four Goals Tonight
by Paul on 12/04/11 at 02:59 AM ET
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Islanders defeat the Stars 5-4 and oh yes, Rick DiPietro suffered a groin injury in the game tonight too.
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Go Back To The Igloo and Chill
by William Morrison on 08/14/11 at 06:00 PM ET
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As most of you know, some fans from some city in Pennsylvania haven’t taken very well to the fact of an organized fan gathering on Friday night, August 19th at Champions on Long Island.
First off, let me discuss what this gathering is for. The official invite page with a summary of the event can be found here. The aim and purpose of this party is to gather Islanders fans who are craving for hockey and can’t wait the 55 more days until the season starts.
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Afternoon Line
by Alanah McGinley on 05/18/11 at 06:27 PM ET
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On Dwayne Roloson’s success at age 41:
“Maybe he’s just like a fine wine. He just gets better with age. Or something like that.”
—Matt Moulson, NYI forward and Roloson’s former teammate
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Matt Moulson Extended By The Islanders
by Paul on 01/27/11 at 08:14 PM ET
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UNIONDALE, NY, January 27, 2011 – The New York Islanders announced today that left wing Matt Moulson has agreed to terms on a three-year contract.
Moulson, 27, has 29 points (17 goals, 12 assists) in 49 games this season in his second season with the Islanders.
Last year, the North York, ON, native led all Islanders in goals (30), while also establishing career highs in assists (18), points (48) and games played (82). Moulson has yet to miss a game through his two seasons with the Islanders, currently leading the team with 131 consecutive games played.
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Lightning Hit Long Island Amid Latest Turmoil for the Islanders
by Jon Jordan on 11/17/10 at 01:17 PM ET
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There are several higher-profile games on tonight’s NHL docket but the Tampa Bay Lightning’s visit to Long Island has my undivided attention this evening (and would still, even were I not tasked with Bolts coverage, nor had I no stifled sentimental attachment to the Isles).
Both clubs have struggled of late, although that doesn’t even begin to tell the tale of the hapless Islanders, 0-9-1 in their last ten and now under the command of a new head coach in Jack Capuano, who was handed the position on an interim basis after Isles’ brass made Scott Gordon the fall guy for their woeful start.
If a team in turmoil is always a dangerous one, what does that say for these Islanders? One would think they’d play some seriously desperate hockey tonight. That said, they’re still the Islanders and whether the players quit on Gordon (as True Hockey’s Andy Strickland reports in his latest installment of Rink Rats), or Gordon truly was the problem or owner Charles Wang and Garth Snow simply ignored the fact that, aside from a few talented youngsters, without injured key pieces Kyle Okposo and Mark Streit, chances for this team’s success were slim from day one, nothing seems to work for this franchise and there are no guarantees.
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Islanders/Lightning: Goal or No Goal? You Decide
by Jon Jordan on 10/22/10 at 02:15 AM ET
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Matt Moulson’s OT winner. Was it a goal? Or not? You make the call in the comments section:
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Moulson Agrees To Contract With Islanders
by Paul on 07/27/10 at 12:12 PM ET
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via Katie Strang tweet,
An additional source confirms. The #Isles settled with Matt Moulson this morning. 1 year, $2.45 million
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A Long Road To The NHL
by Paul on 11/14/09 at 09:28 PM ET
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from Katie Strang of Newsday,
...as much as Islanders fans may view him as a sudden miracle of goal-scoring, some apparition that magically materialized in the off-season to invigorate a goal-starved team, Moulson endured a lengthy, arduous, obstacle-riddled road to his current success as the team’s top-line left wing and leading goal-scorer.
His circuitous route to the NHL took its first detour more than ten years ago, when Moulson - criticized for his size [he’s now 6-1, 206] and skating - was cut at every single Triple-A and junior hockey team tryout he attended.
Moulson shrugged off the rejections.
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