At the first time of asking, at least, Mathew Barzal was not a magic fix-it-all solution for the Islanders’ power play.
, 2-1, Monday night, going 0-for-4 on the power play in the process, it does feel as though that might have been a bit of wishful thinking.
“We cleaned some of that up, we had some pretty good looks, we were able to move it. I kinda liked the plan we had going into tonight. We just gotta execute it a lot better.” Mathew Barzal was back in the Islanders lineup, but his presence alone wasn’t a fix for the team’s man-advantage struggles.
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