It wasn’t always pretty, and it was often stressful, but the New York Islanders managed to get a point in Boston, losing in a shootout. Down two goals pretty early against the league leading Bruins, it would’ve been easy for this game to turn into a blowout loss, but the Isles showed a lot of character to get back into the game.
If they had cleaned up some of their sloppier play, especially on the power play, maybe they could’ve even won tonight. But we can’t deal with “what ifs” and with both Brock Nelson and Josh Bailey missing their shootout attempts, the Islanders will have to settle with a point to start this 5 game road trip.