Isles Goalie Situation

If We Didn't Have Bad Luck, We Wouldn't Have Any Luck At All:

The Story Of The NY Islanders

If it wasn't so depressing, I would find this hysterical. Just a week ago, the Islanders were having some serious trouble with goaltenders; they had too many of them. On Long Island, there was Evgeni Nabokov, Al Montoya, and Rick DiPietro. Down in Bridgeport, there was Mikko Koskinen, Kevin Poulin, and Anders Nilsson. The three goalie problem on LI was nearing its closure as supposedly Garth Snow was coming close to trading Nabokov. Similarly the Islanders were able to figure out a way to fix the AHL logjam by loaning Mikko Koskinen to a team in Finland. Things were finally beginning to get sorted out in regards to goaltending problems and then suddenly everything changed dramatically. In Thursday's game Evgeni Nabokov went down with a hip-injury that will most likely keep him out for the next month. Then friday night news began to leak that Al Montoya also was injured and will be out for a little while. So now out of the three NHL goalies, only DiPietro is healthy and able to play and of those three AHL goalies, one will be backing up DiPietro (Anders Nilsson), one will be carrying the entire work load in Bridgeport (Kevin Poulin), and the other was loaned before the injuries took place, to a team in Finland (Mikko Koskinen). In a matter of a few days the Isles went from being overwhelmed with goalies to having a crisis in which they lacked goalies. This type of thing would only happen to the Islanders.