Nashville, Tenn. – They did not eliminate mathematically, not yet, but the season of the islanders is on the lip of the drain.
Nine points ago of the Canadiens with only five remaining games, and it seemed on Tuesday night, like the islanders, they knew pain that their season is almost officially cooked.
How other way explain this defeat of the defense, 7-6 in extra time before the predators who landed in the cross section between preseason and Shinny, with a collapse in the last two minutes of regulation before Fedor Miserey in the islanders outside the islanders?
To make things worse, the islanders played the third period and the extra time without Ilya Sorokin, who can give Goths injured in the goal of Michael McCarron at the end of the second, when the predator striker landed uncomfortablely in the goalkeeper.
Everyone knew and understood when entering, of course, that the possibilities of this game were finally somewhere between Slim and None and even thought that the playoffs of the playoffs still did not say zero, the islanders are beautiful for pride.
Even so, the islanders were Bridgestone Arena’s team that started the night with the possibilities of playoffs north of Zero, and ended up playing to the level of a predator club that has eliminated the long leg.
Yes, it was close and no, that was not much credit for the islanders, whose only positive came with the night of four points of Simon Holmstrom who saw the Swedish reached 20 goals for the first time.
Despite the nature of the high score of the game, it remained in 4-there until the third, the offensive finally took a break even though the islanders created opportunities during the period.
Finally, a Paydirt blow when Kyle Palmieri took a back of the left side and stole it at 15:21 of the third.
The game looked essential a few minutes later when the islanders followed the penalty of Ryan Pulock in the scored with a short hand, Holmstrom feeding Scott Mayfield for his fourth point of the night.
Before that penalty expired, he thought, the islanders and the predators exchanged two more to be five against Nashville after the predators took the goalkeeper.
Steven Stamkos scored in the power game to retire within one and Michael Bunting tied the game at six with the empty network and 40 seconds to go in regulation, tilting a shot of Stamkos.
Svechkov scored the winner in the extra period after Holmstrom hit the bar in an opportunity for the hat Trick, walking to the slot and defeating Hogberg.
A wave of goals in the first period marked the optional defense style of this game from the beginning.
Simon Holmstrom put the islands ahead 4:16 in the game, diverting Ryan Pulock’s shot fits Justus Annunen. Ryan O’Reilly tied the game only about 2 ½ minutes after Filip Forsberg put Nashville in a temporary advantage of 2-1 in Kyle Maclean’s turnover under the island’s goal line.
The islanders reached 2-2 before the first intermediate when Adam Pelech’s shot left Anders Lee and entered.
The teams exchanged two goals in the second period as well.
Holmstrom scored his second in the game at the end of an elegant feed back from a Jean-Gabriel Pageau, but the islanders returned to the power play a few minutes later, with Ilya Sorokin without having the opportunity to stop the only Steven Stamkos timer.
Max Tsyplakov tok advantage of a power game of the islanders shortly after, becoming a uniform force by putting the Holmstrom food in the fold only seven seconds after Ryan O’Reilly left the box.
This time, the islanders cool the leadership through a call error, with McCarron putting the album through Sorokin just a few meters away.
When Marcus Hogberg came to start the third, and when Sorokin was not in the bank, it was clear that it was a more expensive moment than it seemed.
