Pre-Game Post, Isles @ Sabres 7:30 PM

Tonight at 7:30, tune in to FSN to watch the Isles face the Sabres in Buffalo.

Opening Day, early October, Friday night, fall breezing in the air (well, not really); It smells like hockey season. I'm very excited to kick off another hockey season, and my first season in covering the Islanders over here at Islander Zone.

Tonight, the Isles will face-off against the Buffalo Sabres. This home-and-home against them will mark 7 straight games against each other. After that disappointing playoff loss in 5 games in April, it is time for revenge. The Isles come in with a completely different team, and the Sabres come in without Drury, Briere, and Zubrus.

Expectations are mixed for the Isles this year. My poll ends at 7:29 tonight. So far, I have gotten 38 votes. Small, but I'm in my very early stages of blogging, so this is very acceptable for me. The poll results show that we are expected to get an average 7-9. I feel we can do better, but I might be going too far.


Here is the starting roster for tonight:

Goaltenders
34 Wade Dubielewicz
39 Rick DiPietro

Defensemen
2 Aaron Johnson
8 Bruno Gervais
14 Chris Campoli
24 Radek Martinek
26 Andy Sutton
32 Brendan Witt "A"
44 Freddy Meyer
47 Marc-Andre Bergeron

Forwards
7 Trent Hunter
10 Richard Park
11 Andy Hilbert
13 Bill Guerin "C"
16 Jon Sim
18 Mike Sillinger "A"
20 Sean Bergenheim
26 Ruslan Fedotenko
27 Darryl Bootland
63 Josef Vasicek
81 Miroslav Satan
89 Mike Comrie


Opening Day is here!

Let's Go Isles!!!