NEW YORK _ Nothing deterred the Islanders, certainly not scoring on their early power plays, nor their first deficit in their first-round series against the Penguins.
They played smarter and stood up physically to the Penguins in a chippy game with the scrums continuing after the final buzzer.
It all paid off in a dominant third period with two goals as the Islanders won, 3-1, to take a 2-0 series lead on Friday night before a delirious sell-out crowd of 13,917 at NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum.
