The New York Islanders stuck with the Los Angeles Kings for 57 minutes, steadily improving as their second game in two nights carried on. But a Dwight King* goal with 2:53 left just after an expired Kings power play broke a 1-1 tie, and King’s insurance goal immediately afterward proved crucial in what ended up being a 4-2 Isles loss.
We think it was King. They credited Derek Forbort, then King (who looked like he tipped it), then Forbort again. SOMEone tipped it. You know NHL official scorers.
The Kings tend to beat teams through a combination of suffocation and outright boredom, and that looked to be the case through the first half of the game as a neutral zone chess match was tilted the way of the old pros from L.