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I’ll be here to keep those of you who are reading updated on the Rangers/Islanders game. Here is the lineup for the Rangers: Hossa – Drury – JagrStraka – Gomez – ShannahanPrucha – Betts – CallahanHollweg – Dubinski – Orr … Continue reading →

It is with great regret that I announce that 1 of our Islanders bloggers, Rob Fitzpatrick, is not going to be posting here at Battle of NY any longer. He gave us a lot of good insight and commentary, and … Continue reading →

Tonight, the Atlantic leading New York Islanders (that has a nice ring to it, no?) take on their hated rivals from Gotham. I apologize for not posting on Monday but I was busy driving Freddy Meyer to the airport so … Continue reading →

Nigel Dawes’ time isn’t right now. It’s looking like Marcel Hossa will be penciled into his first regular season game on Wednesday when the Rangers travel to Long Island to take on the Islanders. Not only will he be in … Continue reading →

Yay, another game where the Devils didn’t show up at times. The Devils fell to the reigning Eastern Conference Champions 4-2 this afternoon. Once again a game devoid of the Devils scoring anything resembling a “pretty goal” (But hey, that … Continue reading →

THE ROAD TO NEWARKGame #: 3 of 9Miles Traveled So Far: Approx. 2,970.79 Devils will get an early test from a Senators team that a lot of people are picking to come out of the East again. Not to mention, … Continue reading →

Word out of Rangerland is that Sean Avery suffered a grade 2 shoulder separation and will be sidelined for four weeks. Big loss for the Rangers, who will most likely replace him on the second line with Marcel Hossa for … Continue reading →

Sean Avery suffered a sprained shoulder on the questionable hit from Chris Neil tonight. He’ll be re-evaluated tomorrow and see what happens from there. If he is indeed out for an extended period of time, Marcel Hossa will step back … Continue reading →

Thank you Comcast, I really needed 2 feeds of the Isles-Sabres, instead of the Devils. Madden gets 2, the second one somewhat flukey, Andy Greene (!!) and Mike Mottau (!) get the other 2 goals. Kevin Weekes made 32 saves, … Continue reading →

I’m giving this a shot. I’ll be here making updates on the game every few minutes or so. This is my first shot at this so feel free to let me know what I’m doing right and wrong. 7:20 – … Continue reading →