The night began in a truly inspiring way, with a clip on the Barclays Center video screen showing Al Arbour telling a group of latter-day Islanders some years ago, “Work hard, and enjoy every minute of it.” It ended with the late coach’s former team needing to follow some more of his old advice: “One game at a time, one shift at a time.”
That is what these Islanders must do, after losing a game that they had just about won and after falling behind in a series for the first time this postseason. All they can do is put the sour taste of Game 3 behind them, focus on the first shift in Game 4 Friday and take it from there.