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Islanders need to move puck quicker on power play, Barry Trotz says

Put the statistics away. Barry Trotz believes the easiest way to judge a power-play’s efficiency is to watch how hard the penalty killers are working.

"If they don’t have to move very much, then you’re not doing a really good job," the Islanders coach said. "I think we’ve been slow, too methodical.

"We haven’t been moving the puck."

The Islanders concluded a season-high, six-game homestand against the Rangers on Sunday night at Nassau Coliseum after losing, 4-1, to their New York rivals on Friday night.

The Islanders went 0-for-1 without a shot on the man advantage on Friday, leaving them 0-for-6 in their last three games, 1-for-13 in the first five games of the homestand and 2-for-23 in a nine-game span.