Brock Nelson (North Dakota) scored two goals, including the game-winner, as the New York Islanders ousted the visiting Boston Bruins from the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Wednesday night. New York triumphed by a 6-2 count at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to win the best-of-seven second round series in six games, while also winning the last three games of the series.
Travis Zajac (North Dakota) and Kyle Palmieri (Notre Dame) also scored goals in the clincher for the Islanders, who advanced to league semifinals/conference finals for the second straight season. It's the first time they have done so since 1983 and 1984.
The Islanders, who have won all three playoff series they have ever contested against Boston (1980, 1983, 2021), will now meet the defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning, who topped Carolina in five games to reach this year's semifinals. Tampa Bay eliminated New York in the Eastern Conference final in six games last season, in one of the NHL "bubbles" in Canada necessitated by COVID-19.
The winner of this year's Islanders-Lightning match-up will face the victor of Montreal-Vegas for the Stanley Cup.
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