Islanders point blank7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() “I thought their goalie played really well,” Cizikas said. He allowed late goals to Hudson Fasching and Casey Cizikas in the final six minutes and finished with 38 saves. Washington was in a giving mood, too, playing out the string after an eight-year playoff streak came to an end, but Darcy Kuemper repeatedly turned aside shots from point-blank range after some inexplicable turnovers. We made some mistakes, we gave it to them, we lost a faceoff, they scored. “We made some mistakes right off the hop. “It’s tough to explain,” coach Lane Lambert said. Skaters in front of him lost Strome on his first goal and turned the puck over several times to give the Capitals quality scoring chances. Ilya Sorokin allowed goals to Dylan Strome, Rasmus Sandin and Craig Smith on the first nine shots he faced before settling in, but the Vezina Trophy candidate for the league's top goaltender was far from the biggest problem for the Islanders and settled in to make 20 saves. ![]() Pittsburgh is one point back but has two games left against the two worst teams in the NHL, Tuesday against Chicago and Thursday at Columbus, while the Panthers have one remaining. New York trails Florida by one point in the standings after the Panthers lost in overtime to Toronto on a goal by former Islanders captain John Tavares. “Now we need help, so hopefully we get it.” “That is disappointing when you’re in a spot where you win a couple and you’re in,” veteran winger Zach Parise said. ![]() The result was a 5-2 loss to the Washington Capitals on Monday night that deals a significant blow to their playoff chances, which they no longer control with one game left to play. What captain Anders Lee called a “horrible” start led to two goals in 63 seconds and another before the end of the first period, and the Islanders couldn't climb out of the hole they dug. WASHINGTON (AP) Shaking their heads in the aftermath of a baffling defeat to a team out of contention, New York Islanders players lacked the answers to explain the inexplicable. ![]()
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