Three times in a row the Islanders have gone into the third period needing a comeback.
PITTSBURGH — Three times in a row against the Penguins, the Islanders have gone into the third period needing a comeback.The Islanders completed a season sweep of the Penguins on Thursday with a 4-3 overtime victory following two third-period goals that seemingly would have come from nowhere, if it were not the third act of the same movie we saw on Feb. 17 at UBS Arena and Feb. 20 here in PPG Paints Arena.
This was a testament to the Islanders’ resiliency — and a fairly baffling set of results for a veteran Penguins team — which has kept the Isles’ hopes of staying in front of Pittsburgh for the first wild-card spot very much alive. If Pittsburgh is going to both make the playoffs and avoid the Bruins in the first round, it will require making good on their games in hand.As for the Islanders, they saw this game turn on a dime after 40 minutes of disastrous hockey, in which breaking out of the zone looked an impossible task and defensive-zone structure seemed an improbable concept.
Until then, the Islanders had played a middling third period, failing to convert on two power-play chances and possessing the puck without giving Tristan Jarry much work.Jason Zucker celebrates after his first-period goal.Anders Lee tied the game with a six-on-five goal with 1:15 to go, deflecting the puck through Jarry’s five-hole to send it to overtime.Outside of Lee’s power-play goal 5:23 into the match, the Islanders spent just about the entire first 20 minutes on the back foot.
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