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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Most consecutive road games in Islander history

The Islanders will begin a stretch of 7 consecutive road games on Wednesday in Washington.  It will match the longest consecutive road game streak in Islander history, done twice prior:

In 1981, the Isles went 1-5-1 on a seven game trip:

28-Nov-81 @ Boston    4 5 L
29-Nov-81 @ Buffalo     2 5 L
5-Dec-81 @ Minnesota 8 5 W
6-Dec-81 @ Winnipeg  2 5 L
9-Dec-81 @ Vancouver 3 4 L
12-Dec-81 @ Calgary  3 3 T
13-Dec-81 @ Edmonton  3 4 L

and in 2001, the Isles went 2-3-2:

14-Mar-01 @ Pittsburgh 29 Pittsburgh 3 1 W
17-Mar-01 @ Columbus 29 Columbus 3 3 T
18-Mar-01 @ Carolina 29 Carolina 1 2 L
20-Mar-01 @ St. Louis 29 St. Louis 4 3 Wot
23-Mar-01 @ Dallas 29 Dallas 1 2 L
25-Mar-01 @ Phoenix 29 Phoenix 2 2 T
28-Mar-01 @ New York 29 New York 2 4 L


 Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since 1982. Visit my blog: forever1940.blogspot.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick

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