{"id":50240,"date":"2020-08-20T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/barry-trotz-islanders-must-push-more-to-close-out-capitals\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T02:04:00","slug":"barry-trotz-islanders-must-push-more-to-close-out-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/barry-trotz-islanders-must-push-more-to-close-out-capitals\/","title":{"rendered":"#Barry Trotz: Islanders must \u2018push\u2019 more to close out Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Barry Trotz: Islanders must \u2018push\u2019 more to close out Capitals<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 19, 2020 |<\/span> 10:04pm <\/p>\n

\n Barry Trotz didn\u2019t expect his former team to go down quickly or easily. But he did expect the Islanders to respond better to the Capitals\u2019 desperation.<\/p>\n

The Islanders got away from their game<\/a> Tuesday night and missed their first chance at closing out the 2018 Stanley Cup champs in the first-round playoff series<\/a>. With a day to digest what went wrong \u2014 a combination not matching the Capitals\u2019 mindset, costly penalties and getting loose defensively \u2014 the Islanders will have another chance to finish them off in Game 5 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe playoffs are all about momentum, they\u2019re all about adjustments, they\u2019re all about those moments and how you react to them. I didn\u2019t think we reacted very good [Tuesday] night,\u201d Trotz said Wednesday. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have enough push. We didn\u2019t have enough will to beat a good, desperate team. I know a lot about that core, they have obviously some real strong character there and they weren\u2019t going away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody, when they put this series together, looked at it and [went], \u2018It\u2019s going to be a quick series.\u2019 If anything, it probably would have been the odds would be that it would have been quick the other way. So I didn\u2019t expect them to go away. I know too much about that core and we didn\u2019t play well enough to deserve to win that hockey game [Tuesday] night.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Islanders got the start they wanted, going up 2-0 in the first 10 minutes of the game, but lacked a finishing punch.<\/p>\n

They took two early penalties in the first two-plus minutes of the second period, which helped shift the momentum and take the Islanders out of their five-on-five game that had been strong. Eleven seconds after Evgeny Kuznetsov scored a four-on-four goal, Mathew Barzal took his second holding penalty of the period, which eventually led to Alex Ovechkin striking on the power play to tie it.<\/p>\n

From there, the Islanders didn\u2019t have much of an answer as they let the Capitals dictate play instead of doing it themselves, as they had for much of the first three games of the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey outplayed us in the second and probably for the most part in the third [Tuesday] and now it\u2019s up to us to kind of get back to our game and respond the right way,\u201d winger Matt Martin said. \u201cSo we got a chance to do that [Thursday] night. We still like where we are in the series and we still have a lot of confidence as a group.\u201d<\/p>\n

That much was evident Wednesday, as the Islanders got the day off from practice and didn\u2019t seem overly worried about only their second loss in eight postseason games in Toronto. Defenseman Devon Toews spoke of just a couple areas that needed cleaning up \u2014 like being \u201ca little [too] loose in our D zone,\u201d which gave the Capitals too many scoring chances \u2014 in order to bounce back.<\/p>\n

But Thursday the Islanders will be tasked with making sure they find their game in time to make Game 4 just a blip instead of inviting the Capitals back into the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if we do the right things and we play the way we want to play \u2026 and play the Islander way and make it hard on them and just play like we play when we have success, I think that\u2019s the thing we have to focus on,\u201d Anthony Beauvillier said. \u201cIt\u2019s not really about them. It\u2019s about us getting the job done next game.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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