The New York Islanders are scorching hot and the Philadelphia Flyers got a taste of that on Monday night. An early goal in the first period set the tone for the Isles and if not for Carter Hart heroics, the Flyers could have easily gone down two or three goals.
The second period was a different story. The Flyers were the aggressors, but couldn’t crack the stingy Isles defense. Semyon Varlamov was brilliant, but more on him later.
Midway through the third period, the first line put the game away with some beautiful passing punctuated by a clinical finish from Anders Lee.