The islanders will head to Edmonton for the Eastern Conference Finals.
With the top-ranked flyers skating off the ice and finally exiting the Stanley Cup playoffs on Saturday night in Toronto, the Islanders took the game to 7 with a 4-0 victory in their first conference final since 1993.
They will face the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 1 on Monday night.
The islanders held Philadelphia to just nine shots in the first 40 minutes, effectively playing heavy on the forehead and sticking to the 200-foot game that provided this postseason well. The inch that the flyers tried to try was suppressed by the islanders.
Once again, it was the perfect team effort. Following Scott Mayfield’s first-period goal, the Islanders now have 16 different players who have made this postseason.
Thomas Greece, who appeared in his first Game 7, turned in 16 shots early in the second half of his postseason for a 14th career shutout.
Greece, playing for the first time since Game 4, felt an initial scare as Jakub Vorasek’s redirection went under him and the game was over in less than a minute. Vorasek immediately got a second chance with his hard shot as Claude Giroux tried to give tips before stopping Greece.
Mayfield’s patience resulted in him surviving before the Flyers ’goalkeeper Carter Hart went down at 9:27, giving the Islanders a 1-0 lead during the first period. The Islanders’ first line of motion moved forward and pinned the flyers in their zone, Barzel caught Lee Puck, who tried to take Puck into the backhand but was crushed by Hart’s pads.
The Islanders, who outscored the Flyers 10-6 in the first period, controlled the pace of the game. Brassard found things again after scoring and then went 2-0 up at 13:13 of that period to send Andy Green a cross-ice pass in the open net for a while. It was Bressard’s fourth point in the last three games.
Green became the third-highest defense player in NHL history, scoring 7 in 37 years and 311 days old.
High-sticking J.G. Called for Peugeot, which caused the Islanders to start a second period, but they could not earn, Jordan Eberle failed to get the stick on the bounce back.
Hart remained tall through many shots of the other islands. Nelson quickly entered the flyers zone and fired two shots at the door of the heart-saved home just before Nick stopped the lady’s shot. Anthony Bouvillier then tried to bat the midfielder out of midfield and he hit the post at 7.30pm.
Nelson started jumping the turnover into the defensive zone with a strange man crowd, which ended with Josh Bailey joining Nelson at 11:26 on the other end of the ice to give the Islanders a 3-0 lead. Thread.
Bailey’s help was the 14th in a postseason, the most by an Islanders player during a postseason since Bob Bourne (20) in the organization’s last Stanley Cup-winning season in 1983.
With just five minutes left in the second, Greece made a big save on Kevin Hayes, before Adam Pelk jumped in front of an indie skir Lindblom shot to keep the flyers off the board.
Defending the Islanders from a 0-0 lead in third place gave the Islanders a 6: 2 lead. He had to step down after fining Nelson for delaying the game at 1 p.m. But Philadelphia didn’t record any shots on the power play as the Islanders ’penalty kick completed the series for 13-for-13.
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