Saturday, November 26, 2011

November 26, 2011, New York Islanders-New Jersey Devils NHL regular season game story for AP

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP)—This time, the New York Islanders got a couple of lucky breaks on the road.


Michael Grabner snapped a tie with a short-handed goal and the Islanders beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Saturday for their first road win of the season.


“Our guys battled. They battled the last nine periods,” Islanders coach Jack Capuano said. “We did get some breaks tonight. It takes a few breaks to win a game. I’m just glad they got the two points.”


Matt Moulson and Josh Bailey also scored for New York, which earned its third victory this month and improved to 1-5-2 on the road. Al Montoya had 24 saves.



Adam Larsson and Adam Henrique scored for New Jersey. Martin Brodeur made 23 saves.


The Islanders led 2-1 before Henrique sent a backhander past Montoya’s outstretched glove 3:59 into the third.


Grabner responded two minutes later when poked the puck away from Ilya Kovalchuk in the defensive zone and snapped his seventh goal of the season over Brodeur’s glove while Bailey was in the penalty box for hooking. Grabner’s first short-handed goal of the season came at 5:51.


“It’s nice to get the one,” Grabner said of his game winner after noting he was on the ice for both of New Jersey’s goals. “I think we created some offense on the PK but it’s just good that we killed off the penalty.”


Kovalchuk alternated between brilliance and foolishness. He assisted on both Devils goals but also was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct with 5:40 remaining.


Kovalchuk had been clipped by John Tavares’ stick and complained loudly when a penalty was not called. The Devils star eventually was assessed the two-minute minor.


“They missed that one for sure,” Kovalchuk said of the unpenalized high stick.


Zach Parise nearly tied it with two seconds left but the apparent goal was disallowed after a video review. Parise whacked at Montoya’s glove to free the puck and replays showed the New Jersey captain may have kicked the puck in the goal.


Parise shouted at referees Dave Jackson and Kelly Sutherland immediately after the final horn sounded.


“It definitely hit my skate but is that a kicking motion? I definitely don’t think it was,” Parise said later. “Of course I was angry and then they make the wrong call.”


Added Devils coach Peter DeBoer: “I watched the play (and) I’m not sure I agree with the decision based on my view of the replays. To me, it wasn’t what I would consider a distinct kicking motion.”


Moulson opened the scoring 11:28 into the game with his seventh goal of the season. Linemate P.A. Parenteau skated up the right wing boards before feathering a centering pass to Moulson in the right face-off circle. Moulson then snapped a shot over Brodeur’s glove.


Larsson’s second goal of the season tied it 4:20 into the second. The rookie defenseman snapped a shot over Montoya from the high slot after Henrique won a battle for a puck in the defensive zone.


Bailey’s second goal of the year gave the Islanders a 2-1 lead at 11:59 of the second period. David Ullstrom dislodged the net as Bailey’s shot sailed into the goal, but the score was allowed after a review.


Brodeur kept the deficit at 2-1 with spectacular glove and stacked pad saves on Grabner and Kyle Okposo with 38 seconds left in the second. He gloved Grabner’s wrist shot but could not control it as he tumbled to the ice. Okposo jumped on the loose puck but Brodeur threw his legs into the air to stop the ensuing shot.


Despite the brilliant sequence, Brodeur focused on what went wrong on Grabner’s goal.


“I was looking at my stick and didn’t see Kovy go in front of me. I wasn’t ready to challenge Grabner,” Brodeur said. “Two mistakes, I guess.”


The teams had 26 shots apiece. Neither team was able to capitalize on the power play; New York went 0 for 2, while New Jersey was 0 for 3.


NOTES: Grabner had six short-handed goals last year. … Nino Niederreiter was scratched for the third straight game. The New York right winger tweeted during the first intermission that he “didn’t know” in response to tweets he received regarding why he has not played. Capuano was asked for his response to Niederreiter’s tweet but an Islanders spokesman interrupted and said the organization would “deal with it later.” … New York entered the game 30th in goals per game (1.90) and 29th in goals against (3.25). … New Jersey now will go on the road for four games. … The announced attendance was 16,014. … Parise has not scored a goal since November 16.


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Friday, November 25, 2011

November 25, 2011, New Jersey Devils-New York Islanders game story for AP

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UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP)—Johan Hedburg and the New Jersey Devils had little trouble with the New York Islanders’ sputtering offense.


Petr Sykora had a goal and Hedberg made 23 saves to earn his second shutout of the season and the 19th of his NHL career in leading the Devils to a 1-0 victory Friday.


Sykora scored with a snap shot during a power play with 5:47 remaining in the second period.


“I thought we played a very solid team game,” Hedberg said. “The penalty kill was outstanding. We stuck to our game plan.”



New Jersey has won four of its last six games. New York has lost four in a row. In that stretch, the Islanders have been outscored 16-3 and have been shutout in three of the four losses.


“How would you think?” Islanders coach Jack Capuano said in response to the Islanders’ frustration level. “We had three power plays right off the bat and didn’t get many shots to the net. They might have had more shots on the PK than we did on our power play.”


Sykora’s power-play goal was his fifth of the season. He snapped a bullet from the slot over Al Montoya’s glove from the slot.


“Power-play shot from the point, breaks a stick and (puck) lands on one of the most lethal guys in the league for a long time. Put in a great spot. Good goal,” Montoya said. “You hope to have that shot, but if he puts it in the right place, I’m all right with (allowing that goal).”


Montoya, who had missed New York’s last six games, started in goal for the Islanders and finished with 22 saves, including a spectacular pad save on Zach Parise’s first period semi-breakaway that kept the game scoreless.


However, Montoya’s teammates did not generate much in terms of quality scoring chances despite matching New Jersey with 23 shots on goal. The Devils clogged the neutral zone. When New York gained entry into the offensive zone, New Jersey forced the Islanders to play on the periphery. The Devils also blocked 21 shots.


“We did a lot of good things tonight,” Devils coach Peter DeBoer said. “Blocked shots, got pucks out when we needed too (and were) solid through the neutral zone.


“It’s nice to get the win. I thought we deserved it.”


Michael Grabner had New York’s two best chances to score, both occurring in the third period.


Grabner lost the puck on a breakaway in which he deked Hedberg out of position after taking it away from New Jersey rookie defenseman Adam Larsson six minutes into the third.


Grabner was granted a penalty shot with 6:50 remaining in the game after being pulled down on a breakaway. But Hedberg made a left pad save on the backhand attempt.


“Everyone saw what happened. I didn’t score. It’s not just penalty or breakaway, had open chances and I have to find a way to score at least one. First one, he dove out—tried to poke check me—and I just couldn’t get (it) behind (him). Second one I had something else in mind and just tried to shoot it backhand,” Grabner said after a postgame treatment session.


“It’s definitely frustrating. I think we’re getting chances. I don’t know what to do … just got to find a way to get one by him. It seems we’re getting a little tight and just try too hard to get it in.”


New Jersey was 1 for 2 on the power play while New York went 0 for 4.


Notes: On Friday night, the NHL fined Islanders forward $2,500 for slashing Parise in the second period. No penalty was called on the play. … Calgary claimed former Islanders’ left wing Blake Comeau off of waivers Friday morning. The Islanders had placed Comeau on waivers Thursday. Comeau had not recorded a point and was minus-11 in 16 games with New York. … New York and New Jersey will complete their home-and-home series Saturday at the Prudential Center. … New Jersey scratched Mark Fraser and Rod Pelley. New York scratched Marty Reasoner and Nino Niederreiter. … The Islanders wore their black sweaters. … The announced attendance was 15,358.


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Thursday, November 24, 2011

November 24, 2011, Philadelphia Flyers-New York Islanders game story for AP

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UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP)—Danny Briere knew sooner or later the Flyers would get a break.


It came on his shot.


Briere scored his second goal of the game with 2:26 remaining in overtime, giving Philadelphia a 4-3, come-from-behind victory over the New York Islanders on Wednesday night.


“It always seems you need a lucky bounce to get going,” Briere said. “The puck had eyes.”



Andrej Meszaros and Scott Hartnell also scored for Philadelphia (12-6-3), which snapped a two-game skid and handed the Islanders their eighth loss in ten games.


Kyle Okposo scored his first two goals of the season and Michael Grabner scored for New York. Okposo’s first goal ended the Islanders (5-10-4) scoreless drought at 142 minutes, 17 seconds.


New York entered the game having been outscored 20-13 in the first period. At the first intermission, though, it was the Islanders who held a 3-1 advantage thanks to Okposo’s two goals and Grabner’s first goal since November 10.


Okposo tied the game 1-1 season 37 seconds into the game and 19 seconds after Meszaros scored with a wrist shot over Ilya Bryzgalov’s glove. Okposo’s second goal of the game at 10:26 made it 2-1. He tapped a centering feed from Josh Bailey to complete a power-play passing sequence.


Grabner’s wrist shot at 18:29 from the left faceoff circle increased the Islanders’ lead to 3-1.


The line of Grabner, Frans Nielsen and Okposo finished with three goals, four assists, seven points and was plus-three.


“It was good to see Fransie’s line get back on track,” Capuano said. “I thought that line played exceptionally well.”


Peter Laviolette replaced Bryzgalov, who turned away six of nine shots, with Sergei Bobrovsky before the start of the second period. Bobrovsky made 23 saves, including stops on breakaways for Matt Moulson and John Tavares midway through the second period.


“He stopped two breakaways back-to-back. I think that could have been the turning point of the game. Those were two key saves,” Briere said of Bobrovsky. “It’s not easy coming in relief like that but he did a marvelous job.”


Islanders coach Jack Capuano announced that DiPietro would start in goal before the Islanders’ morning skate. DiPietro had not played since the first period of Saturday’s 6-0 loss to Boston, in which he had allowed three goals on 13 shots in that game before being replaced by Anders Nilsson.


DiPietro made 29 saves in an adventurous effort. He yielded Meszaros’ off-the-rush slapshot 18 seconds into the game, Hartnell’s ninth of the year 5:25 into the second period on the power play, Briere’s in-tight wrister that tied it 3-all with 5:42 left and Brier’s winner.


“It hit the stanchion funny and came right out to Briere,” DiPietro said. “I didn’t make the save.”


The Islanders called up Michael Haley from AHL Bridgeport on Monday, hoping the tough guy would spark the team after several weeks of uninspired play.


Haley, who recorded 39 penalty minutes and scored a goal in New York’s 9-3 brawl-marred win over Pittsburgh on February 11, had three points (a goal and an assist) along with 32 penalty minutes for the Sound Tigers this season.


NOTES: The Islanders have lost 13 of 16. … TSN reported Monday night that New York left wing Blake Comeau is on the trade market as he had not recorded a point in 15 games. “It’s the way it is sometimes in this business. You hear things, but, for me, personally, I’m not too focused on it at all,” Comeau said after the morning skate Wednesday. . The Flyers left for Philadelphia directly after the game. They host Montreal Friday afternoon and play their long-time Atlantic Division rival, and Winter Classic opponent, the Rangers in the refurbished Madison Square Garden Saturday afternoon. … New York debuted their new black jerseys. They will wear the new jerseys 11 more times this season. . Philadelphia right wing Jaromir Jagr only played 7:52 spanning the first two periods because of a lower body injury. He was minus-two. . The announced attendance was 11,086 although there were large swaths of empty seats.


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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

November 22, 2011, Sidney Crosby's triumphant return column for HockeyPrimeTime.com

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Sidney Crosby returned to action Monday night after missing the last 61 regular season games. It was just one game, but Crosby's debut spoke volumes about his commitment and importance to the game.


Denis Gorman
Dear Sid,


Welcome back.


It has been a long time since you’ve skated in an NHL game. Three hundred twenty days to be exact since you last dressed for your employer, the Pittsburgh Penguins, before Monday night’s 5-0 rout of the New York Islanders.


You had not played in 61 regular season games spanning the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons, and your team's seven-game playoff loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, due to post-concussion symptoms. Remember those two headache-inducing checks, by David Steckel and Victor Hedman, in the span of four days?


When your 2010-11 season ended, you had 32 goals, 34 assists and 66 points. That works out to 0.78 goals, 0.829 assists and 1.609 points per game. Had you continued at that pace and played a full 82-game schedule, you would have finished with 64 goals, 68 assists and 132 points. Those numbers would have won you the Rocket Richard and Art Ross Trophies, and the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award, for the second time in your career.


When you stepped onto the ice, the Consol Energy Center transformed from a state-of-the-art arena into cacophonous cavern of joyous sound. Bedlam ensued when you flipped your patented backhander over Islanders goaltender Anders Nilsson 5:24 into the game. Oh, it was also to be the game-winning goal.


Eleven minutes and five seconds after that, you set up Brooks Orpik for a slap-shot goal. After one period, you had a goal and an assist, and were plus-2. You finished with two goals, two assists, four points and were a plus-3 in 15:54 while taking eight shots on goal in 21 shifts. Oh, and you were the first star.


Do you remember your last goal? Actually, you scored twice in a 6-3 win over the Atlanta Thrashers on December 28, 2010. Yeah, they don't exist anymore.

No one who saw what you did the night of November 21, 2011, will ever forget it.


Your playoff statistics are equally startling. Thirty goals, 52 assists and 82 points in 62 games. You’re plus-22, have scored 99 power-play goals and five game-winning goals. We haven’t yet mentioned your consecutive Stanley Cup Final appearances, one Cup and one Olympic gold medal-winning goal. (Your country won't let you forget the latter. Ever.)


The day after the win over the Thrashers last season, you and your teammates were inside a decaying building known as the Nassau County Veterans Memorial Coliseum, preparing for that night’s match against the Islanders. You were in the midst of a 50-points-in-25-games-streak, which prompted HockeyPrimeTime.com to ask coach Dan Bylsma if you had progressed to the point where you needed slights, real or imagined, to continue to improve.


Your coach's response: “It will be a challenge for him to find out how to keep working on his game. That’s probably his strength as an athlete. You can talk about his skating ability and his skill. But probably his best thing is his desire and need to improve and get better in his game. He does that in obvious ways: faceoffs and did that with his shot two summers ago. But he also does it in a lot of little areas that are a little bit harder to notice. But he’s doing them every day in practice. That’s really his best asset as a player and keeps showing up in his game. As a result, you see him do things in practice and see him translate that right into success in the game.”


Who would know how much you have improved on the game’s details more than the man who has coached you since the end of the 2008-09 season?


And who would have guessed on this night, as dominant as you were offensively, you would be equally brilliant (14 of 21) in the faceoff circle? That you would be credited with a hit and a blocked shot, a complete effort from a player whose legend is in the game’s minutiae?


Before you authored one of your trademark big game performances, just stepping onto the ice made for a storybook moment. What came next, in that city and in that building, was nothing short of historic.


No one who saw what you did the night of November 21, 2011, will ever forget it.


Welcome back, Sid.


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Sunday, November 20, 2011

November 20, 2011, Boston Bruins-New York Islanders game story for AP

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UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP)—Tim Thomas started the day with 27 shutouts. No. 28 might have been the easiest in his stellar NHL career.


Thomas turned away 23 shots, and Chris Kelly scored two goals to lead the Boston Bruins to their eighth straight win, 6-0 over the New York Islanders on Saturday night.


Patrice Bergeron, Nathan Horton, Andrew Ference and Zdeno Chara also scored for Boston (11-7), which has outscored opponents 45-14 during the winning streak. New York (5-9-3) has lost three of four and 11 of 13. The Bruins have won 14 of 18 games against the Islanders.



“A lot of it is generated from the defensive zone,” Kelly said. “We were coming back and playing stingy in our end.”


Thomas has two shutouts this season, and New York was blanked for the fourth time this season. This was the Islanders’ worst effort of the season, and coach Jack Capuano let his anger and frustration spill out.


“My thoughts are that when you play this game you need to play with fire, you need to play with passion, you need to play with determination, you need to play with desperation,” Capuano said.


Bergeron made it 1-0 7:08 in by redirecting Tyler Seguin’s pass past goalie Rick DiPietro. Horton doubled Boston’s lead to 2-0 just 5:12 later when he roofed DiPietro’s clearing attempt from the top of right circle.


“No excuse for that,” DiPietro said of his ill-advised clear. “It’s not a play I want to repeat too often.”


Kelly pushed the lead to 3-0 with a left-circle slap shot at 18:45 after New York defenseman Travis Hamonic lost the puck in his zone.


The Islanders didn’t record a shot until Frans Nielsen’s short-handed drive with 8:52 remaining in the first period. Boston outshot New York 13-2 in the frame and 30-23 overall. The two shots tied a season low in a period for the Islanders.


“I don’t know if we came out flat, but we had no execution,” forward P.A. Parenteau said. “We didn’t have much poise with the puck. If you don’t control the puck, this is the NHL, you’re going to get beat like that if you don’t execute.


“There’s definitely not much positive you can take from this one. There’s only bad stuff, there’s nothing good about this game.”


DiPietro was pulled between the first and second periods and replaced by AHL call-up Anders Nilsson, who was brought up from the minors Saturday because of injuries to Evgeni Nabokov (groin) and Al Montoya (hamstring).


Nilsson, a third-round pick of the Islanders in 2009, stopped 14 of 17 shots in his NHL debut. He gave up third-period goals to Ference with 9:35 remaining, Kelly at 12:54, and Chara at 18:15. DiPietro stopped 10 of 13 shots in the first period.


Thomas didn’t have to work for this shutout as the Bruins clogged the neutral and defensive zones in the final 40 minutes. New York was mostly limited to shots from the perimeter, except for Nino Niederreiter’s backhander from the slot early in the third, Nielsen’s power-play backhander with 12 minutes left in the game, and two shots by Matt Martin and Jay Pandolfo when the Islanders were short-handed.


“It’s hard to get a shutout in this league,” Thomas said. “When you have a big lead in the third period, the human tendency is to let up.


“I did the best I could to be ready when they got their chances.”


NOTES: Islanders RW Kyle Okposo was a healthy scratch for the third straight game. … Ed Westfall was inducted into the Islanders’ Hall of Fame in a pregame ceremony. Westfall was the Islanders’ first selection in the 1972 expansion draft and was their first captain. Westfall, who had 231 goals and 625 points in an 18-year career with New York and Boston, called the second with Jiggs McDonald on television. They were the Islanders’ announcing duo from 1980 until 1996. . Thirteen Bruins were plus-one or better, led by Joe Corvo’s plus-four. Ten Bruins recorded at least one point. Kelly finished with three points, two goals and an assist.


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Friday, November 18, 2011

November 18, 2011, Evgeni Nabokov injury short for AP.

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UNIONDALE, New York (AP)—New York Islanders goalie Evgeni Nabokov of Russia injured his groin in the first period against the Montreal Canadiens and left the game.


The Islanders said Thursday night that Nabokov will be re-evaluated on Friday.


Nabokov made a sliding pad save on Yannick Weber’s slap shot 7:55 into the game, and then was prone on the ice before being helped to the dressing room by the medical staff. Rick DiPietro replaced Nabokov in goal.


Nabokov has played seven games for New York this season after finally agreeing to report to the Islanders after being claimed off waivers in January. He is 1-5 with a .910 save percentage and 2.89 goals against average.

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November 18, 2011, Montreal Canadiens-New York Islanders game story for AP

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UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - The New York Islanders started the day with the worst record in the Eastern Conference and then they lost their starting goalie in the first period.


But Rick DiPietro made sure they didn’t lose the most important thing, Thursday night’s home game against the Montreal Canadiens.


DiPietro made 24 saves in relief of injured starter Evgeni Nabokov, and Matt Moulson scored a key goal in the Islanders’ 4-3 victory that broke a four-game skid.



“Tonight was a big step in the right direction,” said DiPietro, who earned his first NHL relief win. “We need to play with some desperation and urgency.”


P.A. Parenteau, Jay Pandolfo, and Mark Streit also scored for the Islanders, 0-3-1 in their previous four. New York, which scored all of its goals in the second period, held on after taking a 3-0 lead.


“We just took advantage,” said forward John Tavares, who was plus-one with an assist in 18:58 of ice time. “We managed to hold the boat. We played pretty well and we used the offensive zone really well.”


DiPietro replaced Nabokov 7:55 in after Nabokov injured a groin while making a pad save on Yannick Weber. Nabokov, who made two saves, will be re-evaluated on Friday.


Max Pacioretty, Erik Cole and Brian Gionta scored for the Canadiens, who beat Carolina at home on Wednesday. Peter Budaj stopped 29 shots. Montreal had won three of four.


The Islanders built their 3-0 lead within a 9:08 span in the second period and led 4-2 at intermission. Parenteau opened the scoring 41 seconds in with a backhander that went in off of Budaj.


“It’s nice to get a little bit of luck,” Parenteau said. “We were moving the puck pretty well after that.”


Pandolfo tipped in a centering feed from Josh Bailey past Budaj 2:20 after Parenteau’s goal. It was Pandolfo’s 100th NHL goal in his 15-year career.


Streit’s second goal of the season made it 3-0. He scored off a pass from Matt Martin while driving the crease.


“It’s a tough thing,” Budaj said. “It’s tough to lose like that. I have to be better with my puck-handling, and today wasn’t a good day for that. A couple mistakes, a couple breakdowns cost us two points.”


Montreal cut the deficit to 3-2 with goals from Pacioretty and Cole in a span of 2:36. Pacioretty one-timed Lars Eller’s pass past DiPietro at 14:52. Eller intercepted Mike Mottau’s clearing pass and found Pacioretty for his ninth. Cole netted his fifth of the season over a prone DiPietro at 17:38.


“When I have a chance to score a goal, my confidence is there,” Pacioretty said. “At the end of the day you wish you could have done more to help your team. We came out flat-footed in the first.


“You have to play a full 60 minutes. We just got away from our game. You don’t like to see it happen, but it did.”


Just as it seemed Montreal wrestled momentum away from New York, Moulson ripped a drive from the right circle with 1:45 remaining in the second to put the Islanders ahead 4-2.


DiPietro made that stand up. Montreal had two power plays in the third period, but took advantage of only one. Gionta made it 4-3 with 4:18 remaining.


“He was good,” Mike Cammalleri said of DiPietro. “He seemed like he had some confidence going. He was challenging and playing an aggressive style.”


DiPietro robbed P.K. Subban during the Canadiens’ first advantage of the period. Subban tilted his head to the rafters after DiPietro snared his drive.


“It was interesting at the end. We won, that’s the bottom line,” New York coach Jack Capuano said. “Ricky played well.”


The Canadiens were 1 for 4 overall on the power play. New York went 0 for 3.


“Positives were special teams, we got another goal on the power play and penalty killing,” Montreal coach Jacques Martin said. “But the bottom line is that we lost the game.”


NOTES: The Canadiens said that former head equipment manager Eddy Palchak died on Wednesday night. Palchak, who was 71, worked for the Canadiens for 31 years, starting in the 1966-67 season. … Montreal D Hal Gill was hospitalized with a virus and missed his third game. … The announced attendance was 9,928. . The Islanders will debut their new third jerseys when they host Philadelphia on Wednesday.



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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

November 16, 2011, Barclays Center Classic introductory press conference story for AP


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NEW YORK (AP)—Kentucky will play Maryland in the inaugural Barclays Center Classic next year.


Officials of the Barclays Center announced the tournament will be held Nov. 9 in the new arena in Brooklyn.


Kentucky will face Maryland in the featured game on ESPN, along with Morehead State against LIU.


Kentucky coach John Calipari, Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson, Barclays Center developer Bruce Ratner and Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark were on hand for the announcement.


No. 2 Kentucky defeated No. 12 Kansas 75-65 on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.


“We’ve played in the Garden and now we’re going to be playing in Brooklyn,” Calipari said. “We appreciate the opportunity. We will bring 10, 12,000 fans, maybe more. They’ll overrun the building.”


Albert King, who was raised in Brooklyn and played for Maryland and the New Jersey Nets, also attended the press conference.


“To bring back two storied programs to open up our college sports franchise, I think is terrific,” Yormark said.


The Brooklyn Nets are expected to begin play at the Barclays Center in the 2012-2013 season.


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