If the Islanders can close the deal over the last two weeks of the regular season, the 60 minutes they played on Monday night provide a compelling case that they will be a hard out in the playoffs.
After two straight losses, Monday was a chance to make a needed statement against a Devils team that could conceivably be the Isles’ first-round opposition.
Anders Lee and Casey Cizikas of the celebrate with teammate Bo Horvat after he scored an empty net goal in the third period against the New Jersey Devils.The result was a game in which structure trumped skill, the supposedly aging and slow Islanders looking to have every bit of the speed to handle a deft and talented Devils squad.
That was when, instead of folding, the Islanders bore down, stayed on top of the Devils and, eventually, retook the lead. That moment aside, the Islanders successfully walked a tightrope until Palmieri made it 3-1 with 4:35 to go, loosing a wrister past Vitek Vanecek after a puck came to him in the slot.
Haula got one back for the Devils with his shorthanded breakaway, but that was when the Isles’ resilience showed, and Palmieri would soon put them back in front. Much like the last game between these teams, a December thriller at Prudential Center, the Islanders were unfazed by a team that, on paper, should have every advantage over them in the speed and skill categories.
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