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James Neal is doing his best to get under the opposition's skin... or mask.
The Nashville Predators forward was caught trying to force the end of his stick through the cage of Anaheim Ducks goaltender John Gibson in the second period of Sunday's game.
Neal appears to have been unsuccessful and luckily so after seeing a similar incident - an accident in this case - occur to New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist in Game 1 against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Thomas Hickey, scorer of the first ever overtime winner at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, led the New York Islanders to a 4-3 victory and 2-1 series lead over the Florida Panthers on Sunday night.
After the game, however, he had to share the adulation.
Islanders video coach Matt Bertani - who wired down to the bench to suggest the bench challenge Aaron Ekblad's goal - was apparently in the mix for the button-up varsity jacket awarded to the player-chosen MVP after each win.
Thomas Hickey has the leather #Isles jacket. Some guys wanted to give to video coach Matt Bertani.
— Arthur Staple (@StapeNewsday) April 18, 2016
With Bertani's advice, the Islanders successfully contended that Jonathan Huberdeau was offside and avoided falling behind 3-0 before the five-minute mark of the second period.
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Three games in four nights might be too much hockey.
Florida Panthers goaltender Roberto Luongo spoke following his team's 4-3 loss to the New York Islanders in Game 3, and admitted he's 'exhausted' following the trio of games over four nights, according to Sportsnet's Chris Johnston.
The Panthers and Islanders opened their best-of-seven series with back-to-back games on Thursday and Friday, and after just one day of rest, they were back at it again Sunday night.
Luongo has suited up in all three games for his club, but the 37-year-old has allowed 10 goals in that span. He now boasts a 3.13 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage, down from his 2.35 and .922 marks from the regular season.
Luckily for Luongo and company, the teams will now get two days of rest before resuming the series Wednesday.
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From down 3-1 to an OT winner. Comeback complete. #StanleyCup #FLAvsNYIhttps://t.co/4cOzIIrouu
— #StanleyCup Playoffs (@NHL) April 18, 2016
It was an ending to remember Sunday night when the Stanley Cup Playoffs made its debut in Brooklyn.
Thomas Hickey scored at 12:31 mark of the first overtime period as the New York Islanders scored three answered in Game 3 of their first-round matchup with the Florida Panthers, reclaiming the series lead with a 4-3 triumph.
Related: Video review bites Panthers, Huberdeau
Ryan Pulock, Shane Prince, and Frans Nielsen also scored for the Islanders, while John Tavares and Kyle Okposo collected two assists apiece.
Thomas Greiss made 36 saves to earn the win.
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While the Detroit Red Wings are thankful for the effort put forth by goaltender Petr Mrazek in Game 3, Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper feels his play wasn't even warranted.
Related: Mrazek perfect as Red Wings cut series deficit
The Lightning failed to take a 3-0 stranglehold on the series Sunday, instead getting shut out 2-0. The team's 16-shot effort left Cooper visibly bitter post game.
"I don't know if they needed a goaltender tonight to be honest," Cooper said, according to Joe Smith of the Tampa Bay Times. "We just came in to play a hockey game.
"Will wasn't there."
With the team's lead in the series now cut to just one game, Cooper understands his team missed out on a large opportunity.
"It went from us pinning them up against the wall, to now it's a series," Cooper said. "I'm not so sure there myself, their coach or anybody in this room was thinking this would be a sweep.
"Now it's a series."
The Red Wings will have the chance to square the series up at 2-2 when the teams return to action on Tuesday.
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DETROIT - Andreas Athanasiou and Henrik Zetterberg scored, Petr Mrazek made 16 saves and the Detroit Red Wings beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 on Sunday night.
Related: Watch: Red Wings' Athanasiou follows up brilliant near miss with opening goal
Detroit cut its deficit to 2-1 in the first-round series. Game 4 is Tuesday night at Joe Louis Arena. Game 5, which is now necessary, will be at Tampa Bay.
After brawling late in the last game, gloves were dropped, fists flew and there were piles of players on the ice when the Game 3 ended.
Related: Watch: Boyle taunts Abdelkader with chicken dance
Ben Bishop made 28 saves for the Lightning, who had their top line of Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov and Alex Killorn shut down after the trio combined for six points in the first two games of the series.
Kucherov scored first in each of the first two games, while Killorn and Johnson scored the tie-breaking goals in the third periods.
Detroit's rookie coach, Jeff Blashill, benched goaltender Jimmy Howard for Game 3 and put Mrazek in net. The move seemed to work, though, as the Red Wings' swarming defense and backchecking forwards limited Tampa Bay's shots on net.
At the other end, the Red Wings kept Bishop much busier.
Athanasiou, a rookie, scored his first career playoff goal midway through the second period on a one-timer from the left circle that fluttered between Bishop's stick on the short side.
Zetterberg, in his 13th postseason, crashed the net late in the second period and was credited with a goal that appeared to go off his left skate. The goal stood after a video review and a challenge from Lightning coach Jon Cooper.
Blashill made another decision that paid off by putting Brendan Smith, who had been a healthy scratch since March 26, in the lineup instead of Kyle Quincey in the lineup. Smith used his right shoulder to put Cedric Paquette on his back early in the game. Smith, an agitating player, also drew another penalty late in the game.
Tampa Bay went on the power play for the first time late in the second period and got a second opportunity to have an extra skater early in the third, and failed to take advantage of the chances to pull within a goal.
Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk, who said he plans to retire from the NHL after the playoffs, was called for tripping with 5:40 left and his teammates prevented Tampa Bay from making the most of the opportunity.
The Lightning pulled Bishop to add an extra skater with 2:28 left, but had to put him back in next 11 seconds later because Braydon Coburn was called for interference for hitting Smith, who didn't have a stick as he tried to push him away from the net.
Mrazek didn't have to make many saves, but he made enough to shut out the high-scoring Lightning. He had two shutouts against them last year, pushing the series to a Game 7 before being eliminated with a 2-0 loss.
NOTES: Lightning F J.T. Brown missed the game with an upper-body injury. ... Detroit D Alexey Marchenko was knocked out of part of the game after getting checked into the glass by Vladislav Namestnikov and needing stitches to repair a cut on his forehead.
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Brian Boyle spared Justin Abdelkader when the horn sounded on Game 3, and he wasn't offered permission to whale on the Detroit Red Wings agitator. (Funny, Mike Blunden didn't appear to authorize the attack he endured in Game 2). But Boyle wasn't going to let Abdelkader get away without a little embarrassment.
So, Boyle went to the well, busting out the one-legged chicken dance as he exited the ice following the shutout loss.
Abdelkader, who had his hands taped (which would be illegal in a fight) as a result of the brawl in Game 2, told Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press that the coaching staff instructed him not to indulge Boyle.
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