Banged-up Islanders beat elite Golden Knights to continue push toward playoff spot
NY Post
The Islanders did Rocky one better.
Patrick Roy’s analogy equating his team to the fictional boxer on Tuesday morning made for some good fodder, but it was a little inconvenient that Rocky lost the fight in the 1976 classic.
No matter, the parallels between the battered and bruised Islanders and the Sylvester Stallone character stopped at the result.
The Isles beat the Golden Knights 2-1 on Tuesday night at UBS Arena behind shutdown defense and superb goaltending, winning their 11th game in 14 to stay within three points of a playoff spot.
“This morning I was talking about the story of Rocky. We don’t want to go down,” Roy said. “And I think people love people that refuse to go down. And when they go down, they go back up, and that’s exactly what we did.”
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