I mean, what?
What?!
Not only are the Islanders up on the favored Penguins 3-0 in this series, but they’ve dominated their way into doing so.
Game 1 was the closest game in terms of on-ice play, because a track meet behooves the Pens’ style, but the Isles pulled it out and have been controlling play through their tight structure since, not allowing Pittsburgh to establish much of anything. I hate to quote Pierre McGuire, but the Islanders’ play through Games 2 and 3 has been, as he said during the broadcast, “surgical.