Mark Herrmann
Herrmann has covered the Mets and Yankees since 1988, and has been Newsday’s national golf writer since 2002. Show More
OTTAWA — They always say that goaltending is the loneliest position in hockey, if not in all of sports. That is especially the case, as Henrik Lundqvist exasperatingly experienced Thursday night, when Lady Luck completely deserts you.
Lundqvist played well enough to be the first star of the first game of this series against the Senators. He made 21 saves in the first period, a record for him in any playoff period on a record number of shots by Ottawa.