What more can we say at this point? It’s do or die now.
The New York Islanders face elimination for the first time since Game 7 against the Philadelphia Flyers, when they soundly dispatched their opponents.
Of course, that was their third chance to also advance themselves, and it came against a team they had pretty well outplayed for most of the series.
Not so similar, this one. To escape elimination and keep this series going, it will take more of the same effort — yet even more of it, with fewer lapses — plus improved luck up and down the lineup.