In his first game as an NHL head coach, Lane Lambert’s style was on display Thursday, but it wasn’t enough as the Islanders fell 3-1 to the Panthers.
The new and more aggressive Islanders still have some work to do.
“Aggressive” was the buzzword during training camp, and that was on display from puck drop at UBS Arena. The Islanders clogged the blue line when the Panthers tried to break out of their zone. Their defensemen got up on the play. The objective did not seem to be to win 2-1, but to generate chances, score and force the opposition to chase the game — a position in which the Islanders found themselves all too often last season.
Islanders coach Lane Lambert watches the action during his NHL coaching debut, a 5-2 loss to the Panthers.There was a moment of hope early in the third period, when Noah Dobson, on the power play, ripped a shot past Sergei Bobrovsky to tie the score 1-1 at 3:13. But the momentum inside UBS Arena lasted all of 30 seconds, before Patric Hornqvist put the Panthers back up 2-1 on a wraparound attempt that Ilya Sorokin couldn’t get to in time.
The Islanders displayed sloppiness at times, taking six penalties. Though they excelled on special teams, it was not ideal to spend 10 minutes of the game at five-on-four.
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