The New York Islanders entered the night with a chance to clinch a Stanley Cup Playoff series on Nassau Coliseum ice for the first time since Game 6 of the 1993 Patrick Division Semifinal. Despite falling behind three times in the first 22 minutes of the game, they got it done.
The Islanders came back each time that the Pittsburgh Penguins took a lead tonight before opening up a lead of their own and never letting go of it. The second line was spectacular tonight, Ilya Sorokin made all the stops he needed to make when the Isles grabbed the lead, and the Islanders are moving on to the second round of the playoffs.