“If our power play was clicking, maybe it would have made a difference,” Roy said. “We need more traffic in front of the net. When the puck doesn’t move as well as we wish on the power play, we need to do things a little differently and put more traffic in front of the net [instead of] trying to be fancy and playing around.”
As poor as their performance on the power play was, the Islanders rarely challenged Rittich in net otherwise, who picked up his second shutout of the season.
“We were trying to break in as best we could, but they played well defensively,” Hudson Fasching said. “You got to give them credit where credit is due there. We had to find a way to break them down. We tried to hold the puck in their end, but they played stingy.”
“If our power play was clicking, maybe it would have made a difference,” Roy said. “We need more traffic in front of the net. When the puck doesn’t move as well as we wish on the power play, we need to do things a little differently and put more traffic in front of the net [instead of] trying to be fancy and playing around.”
As poor as their performance on the power play was, the Islanders rarely challenged Rittich in net otherwise, who picked up his second shutout of the season.
“We were trying to break in as best we could, but they played well defensively,” Hudson Fasching said. “You got to give them credit where credit is due there. We had to find a way to break them down. We tried to hold the puck in their end, but they played stingy.”
