All of us who jot down words about the Islanders are tired of writing varations of this script, like a movie franchise on its dull fifth sequel. But yeah: The Islanders played a decent game for 50 minutes on Wednesday night, reaching that point in the game with a tie score, before things somehow crumbled before them.
This time the final score was 6-3, wasting a couple more highlight goals from Brock Nelson, who tied it with an epic team goal 8 seconds before the second intermission. The Bruins’ go-ahead goal in the third was definitely preventable, and the backbreaking insurance goal was a broken play with some bad luck involved.