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Barry Trotz's Game 7 advice to Islanders: Embrace the moment

Game 7. Do you even really need to say anything else?

"No, I don't think so,’’ Islanders coach Barry Trotz said Thursday, before he and his team boarded a flight to Tampa for Friday’s deciding game between the Isles and Tampa Bay Lightning that will determine the winner of the teams’ semifinal series and send the winner to the Stanley Cup Final.

"You get to a Game 7, you know what's at stake,’’ Trotz said. "You play all year to get to this point. You know you get one opportunity, and it will be there. So just stay in the moment.