The News & Observer: Winger Ruslan Fedotenko broke through at the 2:51 mark of the second period, crashing into Grahame and earning credit for a goal that bounced off his chest and withstood a video review.

Associated Press: Fedotenko scored with 47.7 seconds left in the period when he led a rush by circling behind Denis. He passed across the crease to Mike Comrie, whose shot was blocked. Fedotenko came back to poke the loose rebound home.

The Tampa Tribune: «I have a lot of great friends on that team, guys that I still stay in contact with, and I will always remember being a part of that team — it stays with you,'' said Fedotenko, who signed a one-year deal with the Islanders worth $2.9 million during the summer. «But once the puck drops, you just go out and play, it's like any other game. It's part of the business.»

New York Times: The Islanders tied the score at 1-1 only 1 minute 8 seconds into the third, when center Mike Comrie forced a turnover in the offensive zone and Ruslan Fedotenko sent a cross-ice pass to a wide-open Trent Hunter for the goal.

Associated Press: Fedotenko took advantage during a power play, when the teams were skating 4-on-3, by putting in a quick shot to Lundqvist's right off a cross-slot pass from Mike Comrie at 9:15.

Toronto Sun: An analyst once called the New York Islanders' decision to bring in winger Ruslan Fedotenko «the worst signing of the summer.» Well, the Isles aren't complaining. He is playing 21 minutes a night and averaging almost a point per game. Sources say general manager Garth Snow is quietly working on a long-term extension for Fedotenko.

Philadelphia Inquirer: The teams went 10 minutes from the start without getting any shots. The Flyers struck first at 10:38 when Ruslan Fedotenko turned the puck over to right winger Scottie Upshall on a dump and chase.
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Mike Sillinger tied the game at 5:06 with a backhander under the crossbar. Soon afterward, Fedotenko rocked Flyers captain Jason Smith with a hard check, but his stick was high. Smith got up looking for Fedotenko.
«I thought his hands and stick were a little high," Smith said. «That's part of the game. I try to go out and play hard. Sometimes you get hit. That's the way it goes.»
When Fedotenko saw Smith coming at him, he ran the other way, smack into Flyers winger Mike Knuble.

The Canadian Press: Fedotenko broke the scoreless deadlock eight seconds in, taking advantage of a penalty against Rozsival.
The puck squirted free following a neutral zone faceoff and slid into the Rangers zone. Fedotenko tracked it in the left circle and smacked it past Lundqvist to make it 1-0 on the Islanders' sixth shot.
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Lundqvist was the main reason the Islanders didn't cash in, jumping, sliding and diving at loose pucks as bodies landed all around him. He even absorbed a sliding hit, followed by an elbow from Mike Comrie that went unpenalized and led to a scrum that finished with Avery and Fedotenko going off for roughing.
Avery has toned down his pregame antics that helped precipitate two recent skirmishes in warmups and earned fines for the Rangers and himself, but he is every bit as antagonistic during play.
«He does his job and tries to get under people's skin," Comrie said. «You have to focus on the game, you can't focus on the opponents.»
After DiPietro covered a loose puck in the crease, Fedotenko cross-checked Avery from behind into DiPietro. The fiery Islanders goalie jumped up and punched Avery.

Newsday.com: Mike Comrie's late third-period goal to avert a shutout in the Islanders' 4-1 loss to Montreal Wednesday night might have seemed like a meaningless gesture. But it also was a sign that Comrie responded to the sting of coach Ted Nolan's decision to bench him and linemates Bill Guerin and Ruslan Fedotenko most of the second period.
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«I don't think we played that well," Comrie said after practice yesterday morning. «You have to compete every night, and Ted wants our line to be competitive every time we get on the ice ... Our line struggled a little bit. We can't lose focus because it was one game where we didn't play as well as we should have. We've played pretty well as of late, and we've just got to get back to making plays and keeping things simple. We won't worry about the score. We'll worry about our work ethic.»
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«The first goal wasn't really their fault," Nolan said of Comrie's line. «There were three shifts in a row where they were caught in our zone almost the whole shift. So you say, 'Hey, it's not working for that line tonight,' and you give them a little bit of a rest. In the second period, I don't think they touched the ice for the last 10 minutes. These guys are top-end guys, and they'll rebound.»

Boston Herald: Richard Park scored the go-ahead goal for New York at 7:30 of the third period. Thomas made a stop on defenseman Radek Martinek’s shot from the left point and slid across the crease to deny Rusian Fedotenko’s bid on the rebound. The goalie was completely out of position when Park lofted into the open half of the net.
“The first shot got tipped and that’s why I couldn’t control the rebound,” Thomas said. “The second guy put it in my right leg and physics says the rebound is going to go to the right side.”

Newsday.com: For now, Nolan will work with what he's got, but he plans to shake up the power play, which is 3-for-39 over the past 10 games. Miroslav Satan will be on the top unit with Mike Comrie and Ruslan Fedotenko, and Bill Guerin will work on the second unit with Sillinger and Hunter. The coach also expects to go with seven defensemen again so that Bryan Berard and Marc-Andre Bergeron both can see power-play time.