Tonight, in their 40th game of the season, the New York Islanders welcomed to the Coliseum the Philadelphia Flyers in the Isles’ debuts of both Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac, who lined up on either wing of Jean-Gabriel Pageau.
The Islanders looked fired up by their new acquisitions... for the first seven minutes or so. They scored two early goals, and then lost all their momentum because their dreadful power play did less than nothing on a five-minute major.
Still, the Flyers lost whatever juice they had drank from killing off the major after tying the game, and it seemed clear that both teams played more than half of this game just trying to secure a point.