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| 16th April, 2007 - 2:35 am |  Yahoo.com - Now that Rick DiPietro has returned to the ice, the biggest question surrounding the Islanders is why captain Alexei Yashin saw so little of it.
Fresh off a split of the opening two games in Buffalo against the Sabres, the underdog Islanders returned to their home practice rink Sunday and tried to figure out how to take control of the best-of-seven matchup.
While rain poured down and the wind whipped on Long Island, coach Ted Nolan tried to diffuse a potential storm in his locker room before Monday night's Game 3. All seems right with the Islanders, except Yashin saw little action in the final two periods of the win and played 10 shifts for 7:07 of ice time overall, both team lows and all with the teams at even strength. [READ] |
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