The Islanders’ 5-1 Game 3 win over the Hurricanes ended with multiple fights. After Game 2, Matt Martin predicted the series was going to get nastier.
If Wednesday’s game was when this started to feel like a playoff series — ramped up nastiness and the PNC Arena crowd booing Matt Martin whenever he touched the puck after he interfered with Jordan Staal — then Friday was when the Hurricanes got the memo.
That helped set off a chain of events that saw Anders Lee and Jalen Chatfield both get ejected for 10-minute misconducts as well as a shoving match right before the buzzer in which Martin, Casey Cizikas, Brent Pesce and Jack Drury all joined them in the dressing room with misconducts of their own. Oh, and the Islanders scored two more goalsMartin, in a pregame conversation with The Post, more or less accurately predicted the chain of events.
The Islanders brawl with the Hurricanes after their 5-1 Game 3 win. Veteran Matt Martin, who scored a goal in the victory, predicted after Game 2 that this series was going to get even more physical and chippy.Even after losing two games in Raleigh, the Islanders felt they were successfully wearing down Carolina. That seemed to come to a head in Game 3, when during the third period, the Hurricanes broke down as the Islanders got stronger.
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