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ravencallscrowsThis series matched the President's Trophy winning Ottawa Senators against the New York Islanders, who all but backed into the post season. The surprise isn't that the Senators won over the Isles, but that it took five games.
New York came out in game one against a very flat Ottawa team, and took the early advantage by stealing a 3-1 victory from Ottawa at the Corel Centre. It all went downhill from there for the Islanders.
There were three keys to this series for the Islanders to have any real hope of pulling off the upset: they needed Alexei Yashin to perform offensively against his old team; they needed production from Michael Peca; and they needed to be able to play physically against the Senators.
Yashin had a decent series with two goals and two assists, but Peca was all but invisible- he failed to register a point and failed to be the pest he's become known for being. When it came to physical play, the scales tipped toward the Senators.
New York came out in game one against a very flat Ottawa team, and took the early advantage by stealing a 3-1 victory from Ottawa at the Corel Centre. It all went downhill from there for the Islanders.
There were three keys to this series for the Islanders to have any real hope of pulling off the upset: they needed Alexei Yashin to perform offensively against his old team; they needed production from Michael Peca; and they needed to be able to play physically against the Senators.
Yashin had a decent series with two goals and two assists, but Peca was all but invisible- he failed to register a point and failed to be the pest he's become known for being. When it came to physical play, the scales tipped toward the Senators.
