The key to a first round win? Stop Alexander Ovechkin. Easier said than done.
Ovechkin led the league with 53 goals (25 on the power play), and the Islanders know the only way to minimize the Washington captain’s impact is to play a disciplined game.
“We’ll try to stay out of the box,” Cal Clutterbuck told the New York Post. “The goal is to prevent him from having time and space to take a shot. Losing [Hamonic] would be a big blow to us, but we have other guys who can step in and do the job.