Absolutely! A starting goalie is out there on an island and has so much more pressure on them than a guy getting 3 or 4 shifts who can kind of stay low key during a debut. Love to see it!

I agree but not having watched the game, why did Ottawa give up that many shots? I would think they would have tightened up to help out the debuting goalie. Hopefully he develops into a strong netminder

Yawn

@@nextmanupNMUthis the only time I cheered for Ottawa cause I live in cape breton and have talked to Kevin in person manny times along side Pierre luc Dubois evgeni svechnikov Igor sokolov and drake batherson. I have manny signed stuff and pictures and I’m glad to see all these guys do well.

Sounds made up

I'm not just some average Islander fan,when my dad got home from Vietnam he got a job for METLIFE ,and made manager at the youngest age,in 76-87 he got the NY Islander account ,and i grew up as a fly on the wall during that time...which i could write a book about.

@@Evocati-Augusti that's sick

@@mikepurdue7472 my dad was at the colosseum 2 of the cups they won, and many of the playoff games. Bossy trottier smith, he drops like 30 names in 10 seconds when talking about back in the day islanders, he was a huge fan. He was actually a Rangers fan prior when he was young, because there literally wasnt a Islanders team in the league until 72. He was literally a day 1 islander fan. During the 90s lmao they called the colosseum the mausoleum because of how bad they were, the ziggy palfy era that dude was sick. He also knew a couple of the ushers and would always get us better seats. Those 90s and early 2000s islanders games were some of the dopest, i also got to see Hasek play when he was on Buffalo in 99, one game buffalo didnt even start him and he was at onepoint standing somewhere near the crowd next to two european chicks just signing autographs for whoever. I like the islanders and buffalo was my second, i rooted hard for them in 99 when they made the playoffs. The Rangers i was never a fan of but the garden is probably the best place to see a game the old one specifically had a vibe to it, the new one i havent been to alot but its still good. They also tore down the OG yankee stadium, alot of people are still pissed about that.

How is you being an Islander fan relevant?

I actually really appreciate hearing that! I was feeling a little down on my YT channel the last couple of days, so thank you!

@@nextmanupNMU Can't get discouraged bro, chin up and keep working. It will pay off eventually.

Agreed idk how but this channel appeared in my home feed been watching bunch of vids past week or so since finding it. I also like the shortness/ informativeness ? Lol of them

Same I'm exited a sens fan

Florida has fans?

@Menurd 1 Yes, don't be an idiot. If you are a fan in general you should want hockey to thrive in places like Florida. The popularity and therfore survival of the game depends on it. Please stop eating tide pods.

@@Citizen__X1 yes we just keep quiet though lol

Good game tonight, y'all stomped the Caps and we deserved it.

Oh God, I'm 31. I forgot.

Unfortunately, exact same reality check for me.

yeah then Ottawa won a lot and TO faded into obscurity

Would you have said that 3 nights ago when the rest of the fans were panicking because Mandolese has looked horrible in Belleville? lol

Tempter your expectations. As a Canucks fan we had Mike Fountain who posted a solid shutout in his debut, but didn't accomplish much past that. Don't mean to be entirely negative. Mandolese performed great, and I hope he has lots of success in the future.

@@longliverocknroll5 maybe but i didnt hear about that and didnt know who he was until the game started so yeah

@@ericliddle7556 ok

@@kwasomedude4792 he was sent to the ECHL due to performance issues rather than because they didn’t have room for him. Before the coach in Belleville was fired, he was on the Ottawa TSN radio pretty often and never had anything good to say about him

"not taking anything away". Proceeds to downgrade the dudes performance by saying the competition was weak. Lol Your team almost put up 50 shots and you dominated the OT period. Give the rookie credit where it's due - with the game on the line, he stood up tall.

@@Whitesquall123 my comment is bashing the Islanders, not the goalie. Read it again... goalie played a great game against an offensively inept team. If I wanted to belittle the goalies performance, I wouldn't have prefaced my statement with "not to take anything away".

And quantity doesn't always equal quality with shots.

@@ryanmiddleton109 I didn't say you bashed him, but by saying the Islanders are a bad team you are literally taking something away from Mando's performance. It's all good, I just thought it was funny. But regarding the quality of chances, there were plenty of high quality scoring chances and shots. But his positioning was sound all game, so he didn't need to make any crazy acrobatic saves so his performance may have no looked as great as it was.

@@Whitesquall123 I'm not taking anything away from the performance. He made the saves. It was a great moment for him. I wish the guy the best as it is a great story. It is, however, very true that he is not the first rookie goalie to have a great game against the Islanders due to their ineptitude. Not even this season. It's been happening for years and it's almost comical at this point.

Allen?

@@JesusFriedChrist yep. That's the ECHL team he played on

Thanks Robert, appreciate that!

actually 29 years for that

He's on an ECL... which ends this season. He's probably not going to get a large increase in pay... unless he walks away from the Belleville Senators... which is unlikely.

bad

No run support, he has Jacob DeGrom syndrome.

Lack of scoring. Look at the top 5 goal scorers... that's all you need to know, lol. Ignoring Horvat and organized by goals... Brock Nelson -> 57 - 22 - 30 - 57 (0.91) Anders Lee -> 57 - 19 - 17 - 36 (0.63) Mathew Barzal -> 56 - 14 - 35 - 49 (0.88) Zach Parise -> 57 - 14 - 7 - 21 (0.37) Noah Dobson -> 53 - 11 - 22 - 33 (0.62) ------- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -> 56 -> 10 - 19 - 29 (0.52) Kyle Palmeri -> 30 - 8 - 8 - 16 (0.53) Oliver Whalstrom -> 35 - 7 - 9 - 16 (0.46) Josh Bailey -> 53 - 6 - 15 - 21 (0.40) Matt Martin -> 56 - 6 - 9 - 15 (0.27) Islanders have scored 164 goals... in 57 games (they are lower than 21st in the league for scoring). Ottawa Senators have scored 161 goals... in 53 games (the are above 21st in the league for scoring). The difference is Islanders have had 12 fewer goals against in 4 more games than Ottawa resulting in fewer regulation losses hence the 6 point difference between the two teams!

Do you mean Maxime Legacé when he debuted in the NHL with Vegas?

@@Steve_Hunts96 No, Manny Legace - it was visible near the end of the video.