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A familiar Islanders problem rears its ugly head

Two heavy teams that hope to wear the crown in June — the Islanders and Bruins — were almost mirror images of each other at Barclays Center on Saturday night.

Both teams played to their respective structures. Both teams funneled the puck toward the net while getting bodies to the paint. Both were tight in their coverage and yielded little time or space to the opposition.

And if it wasn’t quite good enough for the Islanders, who lost 3-2 on Patrice Bergeron’s power-play snipe from the slot that beat Semyon Varlamov blocker side at 1:33 of overtime, the performance was measured and disciplined against one of the league’s acknowledged powers.