Isles tied the game on a fluke Power Play goal - looks like one of the Rangers d-men put it in his own net.

That’s what it could take to get them going….

All tied up.

Simon - Orr 5 each for fighting.

8:35 PM - Comrie scoressssss! 3-2 Rangers

9:22 PM - Rangers score a goal on a play the Islanders wish they could emulate. A redirection off a passing play - Dubinsky’s 3rd of the year.

Sorry for the lousy game day update - I am extremely tired. I did managed to upload pictures from the Boston game Monday. Pics from the Ottawa game (including some juicy shots of the shootout) should be online tommorow.

I really need to get some sleep, the site update has been keeping me up late every night.

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I decided to merge all of the Live Blog posts from the game tonight, because they didn’t need to be seperate.

7:43 PM - Vasicek from Satan 19:34 1st
7:51 PM - Isles Lead After One

Brief Recap

Isles lead on a late First period goal by Vasicek.

Power play had a few chances, but again they are trying to be too cute with the puck. Defensively they look ok, offensively they are having a problem gaining Ottawa’s zone.

Hopefully the late goal gets them fired up for the second.More from Section 309 as it happens.

8:55 PM - All Tied in Third

Sharp angle, Meszaros PP goal 1:05 3rd and right back to being shorthanded. Comrie two for holding. Back down a man.

9:02 PM - 2-1 Isles Sillinger’s 4th from Hilbert
9:25 PM - Tied 2-2 on a long wrist shot by Meszaros (2nd). DP looked screened on the play.
9:30 PM - OVERTIME!
9:38 PM - Minute plus remain in OT - Ottawa has 4 forwards out. Isles down a man.
9:48 PM - First shoot-out of the season:

Satan: Miss
Alfredsson: Scores
Vasicek: Miss
Spezza: Miss
Guerin: Scores!
Heatley: Save
Comrie: Post
Robitaille: Save
Hunter: Miss
Vermette: Miss
Sillinger: Scores!
McAmmond: Save

Isles Win!!!!!!! Big two points from a tough Ottawa team!!!!

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In case anyone was wondering, YES - the site is different.

I had been debating back and forth for a while about switching over the site from the blog software I was using (SimplePHPBlog) to Word Press. Why? SimplePHPBlog was great, but anytime I wanted to add something - it took a few hours of development on my end to get done. It also wasn’t the most secure code in the world, and was flat text driven. Word Press has THOUSANDS of plug-ins available that extend what the software can do. To top it off, its database driven - which means it will be lightning fast.

I decided to switch this week, because I found a theme I liked over the weekend - it was close enough to the look that I had where I could rip it down and make it look like the older site. What you see here today is the result of about 10 hours over the weekend.

Unfortunately, all old Permalinks will only redirect to the main page - so if anyone has linked up to a specific post in the past you will wind up here. I will do my best to contact everyone.

But what’s in this for me - Mike?

Here are some big things off the bat:

• Speed
• Larger Font and Wider Format (50 pixels)
• Better Live Blogging (via Twitter - all I do is send a text message from my phone)
• Web 2.0-ish - I say ish, because im not 100% sure this theme is web 2.0.
• Better Development
• Comment Reply Subscription
• Post Notification Subscription (Through HERE as well as the existing Feedburner Feed)

I am sure there are more points - but you get the idea.

I am not 100% complete with the refresh - so more will be added as the days go on, but I really wanted to go live before tonight. So look around and let me know if something is broken!

Thanks for being such loyal supporters of www.islesblogger.com!

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Moving into OT, its over as quick as it started.

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Satan!!!!!!

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Park great read intercepts a pass, Turco misses poke check and hits the open net.

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