Philadelphia – which seemed an additional piece of misery to a terrible day for the islanders ended up being a false alarm.
Pierre Engvall came out of the defeat for the 4-3 shooting on Saturday against the Flyers with 3:04 remaining in the regulation after his left knee was reduced in an apparent contact without contact, but coach Patrick Roy said that the game was nothing to worry about.
Engvall, in fact, returned to the bank for extra time (although it did not enter the game) and then was in the locker room.
Then, for now, the islanders can breathe easily after what it seemed initially could be a catastrophic injury.
Engvall was, in fact, one of his best players on Saturday, drawing six shots at the finish line and continuing what has been a solid month in a line with Casey Cizikas and Hudson Fasching.
With his future as an islander in question since he failed to make the team outside the training camp, Engvall is one of the players who still has something to demonstrate in the last three games of the season after the team was officially eliminated from Playoff Contentay.
The islanders must make a decision on whether to buy at the extreme, who still has five years in their contract for $ 3 million per year after this.
If the islanders buy Engvall, they would be in the hook for a limit of $ 1 million from next season to 2034-35, creating $ 2 million in savings for the first five of those seasons.
The Swedish has 15 points in 58 games this season, with eight goals and seven assists.
Goalkeeper Marcus Högberg recovered well from an performance of horror show two nights before against the rangers, stopping 19 or 22 shots in extra regulation and time, then four of five in the shooting.
“Marcus gave us the opportunity to win in extra time,” Roy said. “And we could score that goal that would win the game for us.”
Roy refused to reflect on the season after the islanders were eliminated on Saturday, saying he would do so after he finished.