
Islanders one win away from their Stanley Cup final goal
NY Post
TAMPA — The Islanders came into the season with a striking confidence they would be able to take the next step.
They are one win — Friday night in a winner-take-all Game 7 against the Lightning — from doing that. After falling in six games to the Lightning in the Eastern Conference finals during last season’s bubble playoffs, the Islanders made it clear from the first day of training camp in January that they were striving to build upon that run.More Related News

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












