Yesterday’s win was huge. The New York Islanders are starting to dominate games territorially, or at least control them, and yesterday afternoon against the Detroit Red Wings was no different. They just couldn’t beat Magnus Hellberg and find the back of the net for the first 40 minutes. And when Detroit scored late in the second to take a 1-0 lead, it felt like it might be one of those unjust outcomes.
But then they exploded in the third period. I knew sitting there that if they could just get one past Hellberg, the dam would crack.