Lighthouse Hockey · Jun 6, 2021
Islanders vs. Bruins Playoff News: Second-round series all tied up again
The goal. The celly. The sheer joy. Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This team, folks. The New York Islanders know how to get the job done when it needs to be. They knew that allowing the Boston Bruins to take a 3-1 series lead would have been, as Game 4 hero Mathew Barzal put it, “a death sentence,” especially going back to Boston for Game 5.
The game was incredible—these two teams have played some excellent playoff hockey during this series. It was going to take a bit of a fluky goal to win it; boy, was it fitting that Barzal got it to make up for the... ahem... “slash.” Butch Goring knows.