Islanders blank Flyers in chippy affair as win streak reaches six
NY Post
PHILADELPHIA — A gong show, this was not.
Any notions that lingering tensions over Max Tsyplakov’s hit on Ryan Poehling two weeks ago might erupt Thursday, with the Russian facing the Flyers for the first time since, were put to bed pretty quickly.
Tsyplakov and Scott Laughton dropped gloves less than 5 minutes into the game, Tsyplakov lost his first career fight, and that was that.
Instead of being centered around the animosity that looked to be at a high point between these teams during their two recent matches at UBS Arena, the Islanders and Flyers turned in a muddy, sloppy game at Wells Fargo Center.
No matter, the Islanders will not be complaining after a 3-0 victory extended their winning streak to six in a row and resulted in their jumping the Flyers, Rangers and Canadiens in the Eastern Conference standings.
In their last game of the month, the Islanders also sealed their best points percentage in January since 1983 with a 9-3-0 record (.750), per team statistician Eric Hornick.
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