Out of the 82 games the Islanders will have played this season, there may not be a single one as highly-anticipated as tonight's.
That's because they'll be facing off against the Pittsburgh Penguins, and doing so for the first time since their 9-3 blowout victory at Nassau Coliseum.
Of course, that contest also featured more drama than CSI and House combined. The Isles and Pens racked up over three-hundred penalty minutes and, by the end of night, there were hardly any players remaining on either side.
Naturally, this sequence of events didn't sit to well with Commissioner Bettman, Colin Campbell and the rest of the National Hockey League. Islander forwards Trevor Gillies and Matt Martin were handed lengthy suspensions. While on the Penguins side, only Eric Godard was punished.
Charles Wang won't soon forget the moment either. The league had the Isles fork over $100,000 for "failure to control their players."
We all know how the rest of the story goes.
Mario Lemieux cried out over this "travesty," Zenon Konopka promises to take his Lemieux posters off his wall, Penguin fans can't get enough of the "villain" that is Trevor Gillies, and s ...
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