During a scary moment, Islanders center Casey Cizikas left the Caps-Isles game early in the first period.
While forechecking along the boards with Nicklas Backstrom, Cizikas fell over, but managed to keep possession of the puck while sliding on his belly. After sliding the biscuit away to the center of the ice, Cizikas was stepped on by Anders Lee as three players converged on the puck.
In game four, Caps winger Tom Wilson injured Islanders 38-year-old defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky with a clean hit behind the net. That threw gasoline on an already simmering fire — Kyle Okposo injured Eric Fehr the game before in another clean hit— and Visnovksy’s teammates came to his defense through a war of words in the media.
“He’s an idiot,” Islanders forward Kyle Okposo said. “That guy runs around, he hits reckless. He jumps, leaves his feet. There’s no place for that.”
“We could have easily hit a lot of guys like that too,” captain John Tavares said.
On Thursday night, the Islanders looked to serve some frontier justice to Wilson.
