Just as the playoffs began to look inevitable for the Islanders, there came the team that twice prevented them from playing for a Stanley Cup.
Much as both the Islanders and Lightning have changed over in a nearly 24-month span, you still can imagine members of the Isles uttering the name like Seinfeld spitting out Newman’s: “Tampa!”
The nadir of this one came at 11:45 of the second period when the Lightning forced Lane Lambert into an action so rare that it last happened 370 days ago: Pulling Ilya Sorokin from a game. No prizes for guessing who it was against that time.That particular concession to reality came amid a flurry of Lightning goals, with Nikita Kucherov netting a breakaway goal and Steven Stamkos making it 4-0 within two minutes.
To pour it on even more, Brayden Point added a fifth goal for Tampa at 13:26 of the third, this one with Semyon Varlamov in nets for the Islanders.The Islanders went through a veritable checklist of how to lose a hockey game. They failed to generate a forecheck. The Islanders had enough of a cushion in the first wild-card spot to deal with a loss, even with the Panthers beating the Blue Jackets.
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