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The New York Islanders prove themselves to be masters of oblivion after the 8-0 swat in Game 5 against Tampa Bay Lightning and force the playoff.
New York Islanders – Tampa Bay Lightning 3:2 (OT)
Series status: 3: 3
The season of the New York Islanders was over for exactly 35 minutes and 13 seconds: Then Scott Mayfield hit with a placed shot over the left shoulder of Andrej Vasilevskiy to equalize 2-2 for the hosts. And the last two home games of the Isles offered great drama: If it was defender Ryan Pulock’s parade on the goal line one and a half seconds before the final siren in Game 4 that fixed the victory of the Isles, this time overtime had to bring the decision. And as we have seen many times in this final round, there was also an XXS overtime last night.
A good minute was played when the Islanders shot the target into the third of the bolts. Defender Jan Rutta, who was fit again after Matt Barzal’s cross-check in Game 5, wanted to play them out over the rounding. But he created a short hitting and stabbing in the right corner around the puck. Although the bolts with the disc on the racket came out of this little ball, Blake Coleman made a fatal mistake from the master’s point of view: To calm the game, he fitted the disc away from the cluster of players in the middle – but served it perfectly on the ladle by Anthony Beauvillier. The Canadian striker of the Islanders gladly accepted this present and sank the puck into the net of the bolts with a placed wrist shot to equalize the series.
Previously, Brayden Point, who scored in the ninth game in a row, had put his team in the lead after 16 minutes. Anthony Cirelli single-handedly increased in the middle section after a pass from Ondrej Palat to 2-0 (33rd). But less than two minutes later, Jordan Eberle shortened with a backhand shot – “vital” from the perspective of the Isles, who went into the final third with only one goal behind. They forced the equalizer, survived an outnumbered game of Bolts unscathed shortly before the end and were rewarded for their masterful forgetting: the eight goals conceded from game 5, the goal doldrums that lasted almost two games, the deficit in game 6 – they ticked everything off and behind them serene, thanks to Anthony Beauvillier.
In the showdown tomorrow night, which will rise again in Florida, you shouldn’t let it take any longer, because the lucky account doesn’t seem to have much overdrafting space any more.
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