from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

You don’t want to be out there for an overtime goal against, that’s for sure, but that’s where the Islanders’ top guns were when Ivan Provorov snapped one by a middling Semyon Varlamov at 15:03 of the second overtime in Thursday’s Game 6 that will make a Game 7 necessary on Saturday. And you don’t want to make a soft clear into the middle of the neutral zone preceding a bad change, as Lee did on Philadelphia’s opening goal.

It was Islanders-Flyers, a Game 6, and 5-4 in OT … and where have we heard that score before? Oh, right, 1980 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals. That went one way. This went another. The echoes that were about to be raised in Toronto on Thursday — not necessarily from 1980, but from 1993, the last time the Islanders advanced to the conference finals — turned painfully into sounds of silence.

Or maybe anguish.

It is all riding on one game now following the Islanders’ second consecutive overtime defeat and third such loss in the series. It is all riding on Saturday. Yes, the Islanders have frittered away a 3-1 series lead. You know who else did? The 1994 Rangers against Vancouver. Game 7 turned out just fine for the Blueshirts. This is no time for panic, even if the Flyers have a horde of individuals who have survived dire playoff circumstances before.

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