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The New York Islanders came into the Moncton Coliseum listed on the score-board as the home team but if you sat in the stands with the locals, you wouldn’t have known it. judging by the sea of Motreal Canadiens jerseys.  However, there was a cheering section of about 50 family members from Jon Sim’s home town of New Glasgow, NS, which is about two hours from Moncton, and Sim did his best to impress leading the Islanders to a 3-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. 

Sim put the Islanders in front 1-0, at 7:29 of the first period, when he picked up a loose puck behind the Montreal net and stuffed a wrap-around under Montreal goalie Cristobal Huet.  Seven minutes later, Sim deposited his second tally of the night.  Islanders’ defensemen Marc-Andre Bergeron raced into the Montreal defensive zone and threw a blind shot on net from the corner.  Huet squeezed the post and made the initial save but Sim was waiting on the door step to bury the rebound giving the Islanders the 2-0 lead. 

Four minutes later, Islanders’ new team captain Bill Guerin gave the Islanders a three goal cushion.  Guerin, who was stationed in the high slot, took a step back to open a passing lane for line-mate Mike Comrie to feed a pass to him.  Guerin took the pass and wristed it through Huet to give the Islanders a commanding 3-0 lead going into the second period. 

In the middle frame, Islanders goaltender Rick DiPietro held the Canadiens scoreless.  He faced 10 shots turning them all aside while making a few acrobatic saves with his stick to break up the few scoring chances that Montreal had.  DiPietro finished with 19 saves through two periods of play. Entering the third period, Islanders’ head coach Ted Nolan juggled the goalies and put in Wade Dubielewicz to start the third. 

The Canadiens broke through in the third when Sergei Kostitsyn snapped a perfect shot off the far post to make the score 3-1.  Thomas Beauregard picked up the lone assist on the goal.  Exactly half-way through the final period, Dubielewicz made a sprawling save on Kostitsyn throwing his blocker up to turn aside his shot.  Dubielewicz finished the period turning away 10 of 11 shots by the Canadiens and clinching the victory for the Islanders 3-1.  

Twisted Wristers
Islanders’ legend Bryan Trottier received a warm round of applause when he dropped the ceremonial first puck…Prior to the game, former Moncton Wildcats captain Gaudet gave Islanders’captain Bill Guerin a tour of his former junior team’s historic locker room, explaining the many pictures and trophies displayed around the room...Jon Sim joked with the IslanderTV staff before the game how the pressure is on to produce tonight for all of his family and friends attending the game tonght.  He delivered with two goals...

Three Stars
1. Jon Sim – 2 goals
2. Bill Guerin – 1 goal
3. Rick DiPietro – Stopped all 19 shots he faced

Game Operations
Kudos goes to the whole IslandersTV staff for putting on a professional broadcasts of three preseason games in three different provinces in three consecutive nights.  Throughout the game, the jumbo-tron played clips of the different segments that the staff has produced throughout the week they’ve been at camp. 

LINEUPS

ISLANDERS
Forwards
26 Ruslan Fedotenko 89 Mike Comrie 13 Bill Guerin
16 Jon Sim  10 Richard Park 81 Miroslav Satan
7 Trent Hunter  18 Mike Sillinger 57 Blake Comeau
54 Gordie Dwyer 65 Chris Gaudet 28 Tim Jackman

Defensemen
4 Bryan Berard  25 Andy Sutton
43 Andrew MacDonald 8 Bruno Gervais
47 Marc-Andre Bergeron 32 Brendan Witt

Goalies
39 Rick DiPietro
34 Wade Dubielewicz

CANADIENS
Forwards
46 Andrei Kostitsyn   59 Mikhail Grabovski 27 Alex Kovalev
74 Sergei Kostitsyn  14 Tomas Plenkanec 81 Thomas Beauregard
38 Janne Lahti  28 Kyle Chipchura  62 Duncan Milroy
57 Garth Murray  45 Corey Locke  86 Jonathan Ferland

Defensemen
79 Andrei Markov   8   Mike Komisarek
32 Mark Streit   56 Marvin Degon
42 Pavel Valentenko   26 Josh Gorges

Goalies
39 Cristobal Huet
75 Yann Danis