It was one of those moments that helps define the personality of a team.
So the Islanders were proud of the way they responded after their captain, Anders Lee, was hurt on a huge, clean hit from veteran Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall late in the first period in Detroit on Saturday. At the time, they were down 2-0 and were coming off a 6-2 drubbing in Pittsburgh on Thursday. Lee had his head down and the puck at his feet when Kronwall put his shoulder right through Lee’s collarbone, driving Lee’s own visor into the skin right above the top of his lip and crunching the top of his helmet into his forehead, eventually needing a total of 12 stitches.