The scoreline looks worse than the New York Islanders were. Sure, for much of the game they played second fiddle to the Tampa Bay Lightning. But it wasn’t entirely like that. For a portion of the game, the Islanders were well in the ascendency.
It started off terribly. For the first 20 minutes, the New York Islanders looked like they might still be in Sunrise as Tampa raced to a 2-0 lead. Leading one of our writers to predict a blowout in our EOI WhatsApp group.
None of us bit on the claim. There was still a ton of hockey left.