DALLAS — It does not seem all that hard to predict what the emphasis for the Islanders will be on Saturday night against the Stars: Come out hard. The Islanders have given up the first goal in 12 o…
have given up the first goal in 12 of their first 18 games this season, and their play in the first 20 minutes in Nashville on Thursday unequivocally cost them two points in a 5-4 loss to the Predators. They fell behind 3-1 in the opening period after being out-chanced 14-2 at five-on-five, per Natural Stat Trick.
The good news for the Islanders is that they continued to show they can beat anyone at their best. That 14-2 chance margin? It was 14-0 in favor of the Islanders in the third period at five-on-five, when only a power-play goal from Juuso Parssinen kept Nashville from giving up the lead.That’s what has kept the slow starts from taking a serious bite out of the Islanders’ record.
“Execution, playing quick, little indecision whether it’s coming out of our zone, getting pucks in, getting on the forecheck,” Kyle Palmieri said when asked about commonalities in the team’s first periods. “I think when we establish the forecheck, it gets all of us into it. It gets our D-men moving and it’s not playing in your own end, which is never fun and no one likes to do.”
Why it took more than 20 minutes of play for the Islanders to find those pivotal parts of their game, though, was a question to which Lambert had no answer.
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