If it looks like Anthony Beauvillier has had a revelation, that’s because he kind of has.
The Islanders winger had played 16 games and had only a single point to his name, and the fear of failure banging around his brain. “I wanted to be an impact player,” he said Monday after practice at the Northwell Health Ice Center. “I was putting way too much pressure on myself.”
Beauvillier already had seen his ice time go down, and it was possible he could soon be scratched entirely; a holiday with the Sound Tigers wasn’t completely out of the question.