The Islanders missed a few opportunities to extend a four-game win streak Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, but they at least came away with a point and Marshall Warren got an NHL debut to remember.
The Laurel Hollow native had his mom and sister in the stands — and dad surely watching from a hospital while tending to his grandpa — as he made an exciting rookie lap and then ended up assisting on two of the Islanders’ three goals in a 4-3 shootout loss.
Warren’s assist on Anthony Duclair’s goal for his first NHL point but the Isles up 2-0 early in the second period, but they let the Flyers on the board four minutes later, and Trevor Zegras twice tied the game in the third before adding a shootout tally.
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Either team could’ve taken the points, but one of the Isles’ best, final chances was in a 2-on-1 in OT when Samuel Ersson robbed Bo Horvat with the glove after a somewhat telegraphed but still very dangerous cross-slot feed from Jonathan Drouin.
Simon Holmstrom, who got the Isles on the board with a shorthander in the first, was the only Islander to convert in the shootout.
Marshall Warren before the game, on what it means…:
…and during the game, after his first point:
Couple days between stops on this four-game road trip as the Isles are in Boston on Tuesday. A back-to-back in Carolina and D.C. looms afterward, so…yeah, would seem important to get points against the Bruins.
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And down they go.
The Islanders took a whole period to wake up, then it got weird and uglier, on many fronts.
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