{"id":44450,"date":"2020-08-11T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/islanders-need-mat-barzal-top-line-to-keep-momentum-going\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T04:25:00","slug":"islanders-need-mat-barzal-top-line-to-keep-momentum-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/islanders-need-mat-barzal-top-line-to-keep-momentum-going\/","title":{"rendered":"#Islanders need Mat Barzal, top line to keep momentum going"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Islanders need Mat Barzal, top line to keep momentum going<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 11, 2020 |<\/span> 12:25am <\/p>\n

\n Mathew Barzal admitted following the Islanders\u2019 playoff-berth-securing win over the Panthers that it took him a few game<\/a>s to get his touch and feel for the puck back.<\/p>\n

But with a four-month break from competitive play, who can blame the first-line center for not having all of his flare after a quick training camp and one exhibition game? Barzal said it felt like he forgot how hard it can be to get to the net and how much pressure some skaters can create one-on-one.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Barzal chipped in a goal and two assists during the four-game series<\/a> with the Florida Panthers, but wasn\u2019t noticeably impactful until Game 4. And while the Islanders\u2019 middle-six forwards headlined the series, Barzal believes that he and the rest of his line started to get back to what makes them good.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we got in trouble when I was trying to do too much through the neutral zone,\u201d Barzal said on a Zoom call following practice Monday. \u201cSometimes forget throughout the playoffs that other teams are watching a lot of video and finding tendencies in our game, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we started to just keep it simple and started playing to each other\u2019s strengths, and I trusted them a little bit more, giving [Anders Lee] pucks down low and making him work. His game down there, I think, it really opened our line up. So we\u2019re just going to have to continue to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of Barzal\u2019s three points in the Florida series came in Game 4, including a coast-to-coast goal to put the Islanders up 4-1 in the third. Head coach Barry Trotz wants to see the same Barzal he did in Game 4 compete throughout the entire best-of-seven series with the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll take his mindset that he had in Game 4,\u201d Trotz said Monday. \u201cHe was using his speed, he wasn\u2019t wasting energy trying to do everything himself. He was being efficient, he was being fast and he had the puck more and he was way more dangerous. I think as he\u2019s learned that the playoffs there\u2019s not much room, sometimes you have to give it up, you don\u2019t have to do it yourself. I think he realizes that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Islanders\u2019 first line \u2014 Barzal, Lee and Jordan Eberle \u2014 combined for just three goals and three assists in the Panthers series, while the second line generated a majority of the team\u2019s production.<\/p>\n

However, Barzal wasn\u2019t the only member of the first line to get back into the swing of things by Game 4. It\u2019ll be up to that line to carry it over into the first round beginning Wednesday at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think actually the production in the last series, numbers-wise, wasn\u2019t quite there, until maybe the last game,\u201d Barzal said. \u201cI thought there were definitely chances where pucks sitting on the goal line, saves [Panthers goaltender Sergei] Bobrovsky got over to and made a wicked save on whether it was Leezy or myself \u2014 he robbed both of us a couple times.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost pucks go in, people are maybe thinking offensively we weren\u2019t producing but that\u2019s the way hockey goes sometimes.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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