NEW YORK _ Barry Trotz glanced over the final scoresheet and matched an Islanders mistake to each of the Ducks' goals.
"They get a power play because we take a penalty up ice," the coach said. "We give up a shorthanded goal. A goaltender exchange, we could've just let our defensemen handle it, but we didn't break it out. The next one, we went back with the puck. Everybody went north but the guy with the puck went south. The last one, we had it two feet inside the red line having a dominant shift and we threw it back in the middle and turn it over because our forwards are heading north and our defense put it south and there's too much separation."
So the Islanders got the result they deserved in a 6-5 shootout loss to the Ducks on Saturday afternoon at NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum. That makes it back-to-back uncharacteristic high-scoring games at home after Tuesday night's 8-3 loss to the Predators.
