Newsday · Apr 18, 2016
This is one Islanders, fans are going to remember for long time
New York Islanders center John Tavares, right, reacts after New York Islanders defenseman Ryan Pulock scores against the Florida Panthers during the second period of Game 3 in a first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series at Barclays Center on Sunday, April 17, 2016. Photo Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van DykeJust moments after the video board showed a live shot from the stands of Shawn Bates, who had broken the sound barrier at Nassau Coliseum with a penalty-shot goal during the 2002 playoffs, Frans Nielsen scored to bring the Islanders even after they had faced a two-goal deficit. At that point, the past passed the baton to the present and the future.