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Check out the new Goalie feature - Countdown to 33.

Congrats for tonight’s milestones.

Neilsen’s First Goal, Assist and Point.  More on that in the Esoteric.
Blake setting a career high goal amount.
Witt with a PIM milestone.  More in the PIM Esoteric Section

Congrats to Jeff Tambellini for scoring the 9,000th Goal in New York Islander History. 
ESOTERIC

TAMBELLINI’s 3rd Goal with the Islanders, his second of the season, lands him at #190 on the all-time Goal scorers list tied with 13 others.  He is the 203rd Islander to score 3 goals.  His 11th Point is #197 on the Point list tying him with 5 others.  He has played in 34 Games and is #248th on the all-time game played list tied with Erskine, Orszagh, Stapleton.

NIELSEN Scored his first Goal, Assist and Points today.  The Goal lands him at the #230 position tied with 42 others.  He is the 273rd Islander to ever score a Goal.  The Assist is #288 all-time and ties him with 34 others including Dunham and Colliton.  He is the 322nd player to score and Assist with the Islanders.  His 2 Points is good for the #284th spot tying him with 17 others and is the 329th player to score a Point.  He has Played in 14 Games and is #296 tied with 6 others including Dunham.

BLAKE scored his career 29th Goal.  It is his 116th Goal for the Islanders and he is at #19 tied with Ferraro on the all-time Goal scoring list.  He is the Active Goal scoring leader, 2 Goals ahead of Yashin.  He is 2 Goals behind Parrish and Thomas.  His 241st Point is #23 8 Points behind David Volek.  He has now played in 406th Game with the Isles and is at #32 on the all-time Games Played list 5 Games behind Wayne Merrick.

PARK scored 2 Assists, his 11th and 12th Assist with the Islanders.  He is tied with Witt, Hallin, Bob Beers, Billy Smith, Baumbartner and Luckowich leaping him from #175 to #161 all time.  His 2 Points tie him with 7 others with 17 Points at #163 on the all-time Point list.  He has played in 62 Games and is #186th on the Games Played roster tied with 6 others.

KOZLOV scored his 21st Assist with the Isles and is #125 all-time tued with Poti and Hill.  It is his 42nd Point which lands him 1 Point behind the #118 spot held by 4 others including Campoli (111 GP).  Kozlov has played in only 62 Games and is tied with 5 others, like, Park at the #186th spot.

BERGERON is the 404th Islander to play a Regulation Game.  He has played in 3 Games total and is tied with 12 others at the #364th spot.  His Assist, also his 3rd with the Isles, ties him with 18 others at the #251st spot on the all-time Assist list.  3 Assists and no Goals equals 3 Points.  It ties him with 11 others including Freddy Myers at the #271st spot all time.

PENALTIES

WITT gets 4 PIMs and has 111PIMs.  He breaks into the all-time top 100 Penalty leaders at #99.  He has played in 61 Games and jumps over Smolinski who played in 227 Games.

HILL gets 2 PIMs and has 82PIMs in 62GP for the #120 apot tied with Jamie Rivers on the all-time PIM list.

SIMON gets 2 PIMs tying him with 52 PIMs with Brewer, Hextall and Colley at #157 all-time.
GOALIE.

DIPIETRO has played in 194 Games.  He is #86 on the all-time player roster 5 games behind Ralph Stewart.  He is #4 on the all-time games played for goalies 47 games behind Hrudey.  His 11,083 minutes are also #4 and is 2,534 Minutes behind Hrudey.  That’s about 43 games.  He has give up 515 Goals and is #5 on the all-time GA list, 49 Goals Against behind Healey who did it in 176 Games.  He has 85 Wins, 21 Wins behind Hrudey for the #4 spot on the all-time Wins list.  Hrudey had 106 Wins in 241 Games played.  Hrudey had 90 Losses, 10 Losses ahead of Ricky who has 80 Losses and the #4th spot all-time in Losses.

COUNTDOWN TO 33
Single Season Victory Leaders.  33 Wins will set the new record.  Ricky is 6 Wins away.  That would be a minimum of 38 Wins for the Islanders.

1)  2001-2002   OSGOOD     32-25-6
2)  1981-1982   SMITH          32-9-4
3)  1977-1978   RESCH        28-9-7
4)  1993-1994   HEXTALL     27-26-6
5)  2006-2007   DIPIETRO    27-18
6)  1978-1979   RESCH       26-7-10
7)  1976-1977   RESCH       26-13-6
8)  1978-1979   SMITH        25-8-4

6 Wins will give Ricky the single season victory record with 33 Wins. 6 Wins will also give us 37 Wins which will give us one more victory than all of last season. Last Season we ended with 78 Points.  After today’s Win versus the Habs we have 70 Points. Our Magic Number in Points to finish ahead of team (9 Teams) Tor = 39 (19-0-1) Atl = 38 (19-0-0) Car = 38 (19-0-0) Mtl = 37 (18-0-1) Bos = 37 (18-0-1) NYR = 35 (17-0-1) Fla = 30 (15-0-0) Was = 29 (14-0-1) Phi = 12 (6-0-0) Teams with Magic numbers over us (5 Total) Buf = 24 NJD = 29 TB = 37 Ott = 35 Pitt = 36 **As always please let me know if you see any errors.

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