San Jose Sharks and New York Islanders CLASH in High-Stakes PLAYOFF Battle Tonight?

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And today, we're going to get you ready for the sharks' aisles game as the San Jose sharks

look to rebound from a poor performance against a shorthanded blues, because a very desperate

aisles team who's on a two-game losing streak, so we'll get to know the aisles a little

bit more, look how these two teams match up.

Look at projected lines, at least for the aisles, sharks is going to be a little bit more

influx, we'll say.

And then of course, what to watch for, and the rooting guide for tonight's game.

So let's get started by looking at how these two teams match up here.

The New York Islanders 35, 23 and 5, your San Jose sharks sitting at 30, 25 and 5 aisles,

as you would expect, offense, not the greatest, 2.89, 222nd in the NHL, and goals lab though,

2.815th best in the NHL, for the sharks 3.10 goals, 418th, goals lab 3.48, 30th in the NHL,

a power play for the islanders, 15.8%, 30 seconds in the NHL, but their PK is 10th at 80.8,

for your sharks, 20% on the power play at 15th in the NHL, the PK is 78.6, good for 18th

in the NHL.

Horvath leads the islanders and goals of 26, Barzelle is 39 assists, and Barzelle leads

with 56 total points, Celebrity and Porcelain is all categories, 31 goals, 57 assists for

88 total points for Celebrity.

This ILCM right is very much a, keep it close to the best, we're going to win with our

goal 10 new, we think our defense is going to be better than yours, and we're going to

try, like that's been kind of their formula forever, and it's for the most part worked

out for them.

They struggle to create expected goals for, but they do better than expected job finishing,

the goals against, they don't allow a lot of goals, but they will give up opportunities.

So I think that's going to be key for the sharks, is to continue to work at it and kind

of hope that you can, you know, kind of break through.

So the expected goals against for the islanders are 28th in the NHL, so they will give up

quality opportunities, but the goals against is 9th in the NHL because of their goal

10 team.

PK, like I said, is very good, the powerplay has been terrible for the islanders, and this

is an islanders team that has lost two in a row and is right in the middle of the playoff

race, so they are very much in it to try to win it, right?

And they just traded for Brady and Shen, like this is a team that wants to make the playoffs

and feel that this is a must win type of game for them as they continue their playoff

push here.

Expected lines for the islanders, Heinemann, Horvab, Barzell on the top, Richie Shen, who

they just acquired from the Blues, Palat, Lee, Paggot, Holmstrom, our good friend, Anthony

to Claire put in fourth line minutes and had to change his number, poor to Claire, Sezikis

and Catacombe.

Defensively, Schaefer, we all know Matthew Schaefer out of this world is an 18-year-old

public, Pellich, D'Angelo, Carson Susie, and Mayfield, and Sororkin will get the net

for the Isles.

For your sharks, this is how they lined up yesterday, Graf's Celebrity Smith, Kursch of

Wendberg, Sherwood, Echo and Misa Topholi, Goodro, Ostopchuk, Goddette, I would expect

some changes after last night's performance, especially with the Celebrity line.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see somebody else up there, whether it's maybe like Kursch

of, but Kursch of a Sherwood have been playing really well, who maybe they try to put Regenda

up there or something.

I would expect to see some tinkering with the four lines.

The Echo and Misa Topholi line has been really great, don't expect any changes there,

but I think expect to see some tweaks with the four group here.

Defensively Orlov Klingberg for our McMuddill of Dickinson Day, I do expect to see a change

there.

Nolan Allen was just recalled by the sand from the sharks to the barracuda.

Wouldn't be surprised, again, no knowledge, but wouldn't be surprised if maybe Dickinson

gets sat a game, as much as for his poor performance, and then since Allen is a left-handed

shot, so he can come in and play the Dickinson spot there on the third pairing.

Wouldn't be surprised if we see something like that, and then Ascrowbs should get the

net after an adult coverage started yesterday.

We're going to get to what to watch for here in just a second, as well as the rooting

guide for the sharks today, as they want, is, again, keeping an eye out across the league

as the sharks try to make a playoff push.

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All right, what to watch for in two days game for these sharks and outs, and I think a

lot of it comes down to just the San Jose Sharks playing a much cleaner game.

That was the story of the game coming out of the Blues game, where sharks outplayed the

Blues for good chunks.

We talked about yesterday, but if you take away the second period, the first period,

third period, and over time, the sharks held the Blues to five shots on goal and still

lost this game, three to two.

I don't expect the aisles to be held to that type of performance, but you cannot play

the same way you did against the Blues, just that disconnected, uninterested, just kind

of hope past type of hockey.

You cannot do that in this game against the aisles here, so I would expect a much cleaner

game.

I've seen this before, right?

When Macklin or Will Smith or both of them kind of get called out for some of their

poor performances, they tend to respond pretty well.

So I expect big games from the Celebrity Smith combo today.

So put me down for a goal from each today, to be honest, I expect a big time performance

out of both of those guys today.

So I think that is going to be huge is how do they respond from a poor performance?

And again, the sharks would have easily won that game yesterday if they just played with

any sort of, like, if they just were so careless in the game, that game.

So I want to see how that performs, how that goes.

So that's going to be the first thing is just playing with some heart, playing with

some meaning and just playing connected hockey, that's always right, Warsaw Ski's big thing

is that connected hockey, that's going to be the first thing to watch for in this game.

The second big thing is, how do these sharks take advantage of their opportunity?

Right?

We talked about the Islanders there, a team that very much relies on Sororcan and their

goal tend to do to mask some other issues here.

You know, Sororcan's going to get the net.

Sororcan's a extremely good goal tender.

So we saw you say the sharks had some opportunities, but weren't able to cash in.

Are they going to be able to cash in?

So getting those high quality, danger chances in front of the net, right?

This feels like a key for sure would type of performance again.

You know, if a guy's like God's at or for again is in the lineup, those big body guys who

can get to the net, that feels like those guys are going to have to have a night, a big

game and try to make life hard for Sororcan.

So I think that's going to be huge here.

And then the defense here, especially if Nolan Allen is in the lineup, again, no knowledge

of it, but just kind of a, we'll just say God feeling that I think he is in the lineup

for the sharks today.

How do the sharks handle, especially the big body for checking of the Islanders, right?

That's they want to play that heavy game.

We've seen the sharks struggle with that.

So how do you make clean, crisp, breakouts, clean Berg I'm talking to you, making sure

that you're not just throwing the puck around here.

So I think I do expect a much crisper and cleaner game.

I expect this to be a very intense game again.

This is a shark's team that is trying to make up ground in the playoff race.

So you kind of threw away a point yesterday against the Blues.

And this is an idle team that is very much wants to maintain and staff a two game losing

streak.

It hasn't been a good California swing for them so far.

So I expect this to be a really close tight playoff type of atmosphere between even though

both these teams are in different conferences.

I expect this to be a really tight game here.

So last time these two teams played, it was four to three.

It was a game that you kind of felt Asgard may be gave up one or two.

Asgard's in net tonight.

Let's see if Asgard who, again, we've seen him make brilliant plays, but then give

him that soft one.

Let's see if Asgard can make a big stand tonight and keep the sharks, steal one for the sharks

here.

So I think San Jose wins it.

I think this is going to be a really tight game.

I think it's going to be a four to three sharks win where I think the sharks are going

to have to hold on at the end.

But I think they do it and make up for some of their mistakes from yesterday.

So put me down for that.

The rooting guide just really quickly before we get out of here.

So trying to do this, right?

We are rooting for perfect.

The perfect world is Columbus beats Utah.

Columbus has been very good this year.

So that is number one, Columbus beating Utah.

Number two, Montreal over LA, I know Montreal struggled on this road trip as well.

But this is a very much a game where I think Montreal and the Kings have been very much a

weird team as well.

And then we're rooting for Ottawa over Seattle.

So very doable.

But that's the rooting guide for tonight.

Bluejack, go Bluejackets.

Go Montreal.

Go Settons.

Go.

So that's going to be for me.

We'll be back after tonight's game.

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