Another blown lead. Another home loss. Another scoreless night on the power play. Another chance the Islanders let slip through their fingers.
The Islanders left the UBS Arena ice on Wednesday night to the same soundtrack of disappointment that has become commonplace since they returned from Western Canada more than a week ago. For the fourth straight game, they scored first. For the third of those four — and fourth of five at home — they lost. And after falling 4-1 to the Bruins, the Islanders have now lost this season as many times as they have won.
They hung tight with the Bruins, even after a 1-0 lead turned to a 2-1 deficit, but it’s hard for a team to win against such ruthless opposition when its power play is riding a goal scoring drought and its goaltender is anything but perfect. The Islanders’ Semyon Varlamov, who stopped 21 of 25 shots, looked rusty playing just his second game in a month, and the team looked better at even strength than at five-on-four.
The Islanders got their fifth chance on the power play just 33 seconds after Marchand’s goal. After Zach Parise’s redirect from the doorstep caromed off the post — a symptom of a snakebitten unit if there ever were one — they had made it a clean three for their last 50 tries at five-on-four. The Bruins started digging their heels in during the second period, when Charlie McAvoy tied the game with a one-timer off Matt Grzelcyk’s feed at 7:48. A little more than four minutes later, Derek Forbort poked in a rebound that Varlamov left in the crease to hand the lead to Boston. After turnovers by William Dufour, who was making his NHL debut, led to both goals, he was nailed to the bench for the rest of the night and played just 6:48.
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