The weight of this moment was lost on no one — not on the sold-out crowd at Barclays Center, not on the Islanders and not on the Lightning.
As a result, with yet another tight playoff game hanging in the balance and the Islanders’ season teetering on the brink, anxiety was high. It was amplified as it went to another overtime, the fifth of the Isles’ postseason.
Then, when Lightning defenseman Jason Garrison fired a slap shot that beat Thomas Greiss blocker side 1:34 into the extra frame, the air was let out of the building — and possibly the Islanders’ season.