Today at 4:00 p.m. ET, the Detroit Red Wings (12-7-7, 31 points) and the New York Islanders (8-14-3, 19 points) hit the ice at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Long Island, N.Y. for the second of three meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Detroit fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action on 97.1 The Ticket while New York fans can do the same on WRHU 88.7.
Detroit found its offense in its last game and will hope to continue the scoring trend while New York is trying to snap a four-game losing streak. The last time these two teams met 13 days ago, the Islanders topped the Red Wings 5-4 in a shootout on Nov. 16.
The Red Wings dominated the Bruins 6-1 at home Wednesday night and will hope the goals keep coming on Long Island.
"We work pretty hard most nights. Today we were rewarded," coach Mike Babcock told NHL.com. "We had puck luck and got some energy and got going. I think that was the biggest thing. We've played lots of good games this year; we haven't won lots of games. That's the fact, because we never score. ... I thought we built off what we've been building and it was a positive for the guys."
The Islanders are coming off of a 3-2 loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday night and will try to get out of their current funk.
"It's just not good enough," captain John Tavares said via NHL.com. "Our intensity and the little things ... taking hits to make plays, all the little things that make a big difference in a game over a long run, we're just not doing."
Tavares has goals in back-to-back games and three goals and six points in his last five outings while leading the team with 11 goals and 18 assists for 29 points. Frans Nielsen (10-12-22) and Kyle Okposo (6-16-22) each have 22 points for New York this season.
Henrik Zetterberg has seven points in his last four games and leads the Red Wings with 30 points off of 11 goals and 19 assists while Pavel Datsyuk has lit the lamp 12 times and added 11 assists for 23 points but is sidelined with a head injury and Niklas Kronwall has found the twine three times and added 14 assists for 17 points.
Jimmy Howard is 5-7-6 with a 2.72 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage for the Red Wings while Kevin Poulin is 3-9-0 with a 3.09 GAA and a .892 save percentage for New York.
The Red Wings will hope that their recent scoring outburst is a sign of things to come while the Islanders look to snap a losing streak when the lights come on at Nassau Coliseum this afternoon.
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