I don’t think any one of us expected the New York Islanders to defeat the Florida Panthers. So to take two separate leads on them and then get the game to overtime is an accomplishment in and of itself—accomplished, for the most part, by Ilya Sorokin, who is giving us a taste of what we can hope to expect next season.
The game, though, was not the first thing anyone wanted to see last night. Most of us tuned in because we wanted to see the tribute to Mike Bossy that the organization had planned.