The Islanders might be closer than they were earlier this year. They are still not close enough.
You wondered, for parts of Sunday afternoon’s game, how it was that these were the same two teams that played for a spot in the Cup final, such was the difference between them.
And then the Lightning answered that query with a resounding no, beating the Islanders 4-1 in a fun-to-watch game that teetered until Tampa pulled away in the third. Even when the Lightning show cracks, as they did for parts of Sunday, Victor Hedman is still Victor Hedman, Andrei Vasilevskiy is still Andrei Vasilevskiy, and they can still punish errors.
In the final period, the Lightning opened the gap further, with Ross Colton cleaning up a rebound with 10:50 to go. The Islanders had a chance to pull within one on a late power play, but failed to score, and soon after, Mikhail Sergachev scored on a rebound to give Tampa a 4-1 lead. For much of the first period, it looked like the Lightning were knocking on the door. But Brock Nelson turned things the other way with a goal off the rush, keeping it himself and shooting a wrister past Vasilevskiy at 18:14.
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