‘”To start the game, we were just making little mistakes that we don’t usually make,” Okposo said. “Our puck management, I turned one over in the middle of the ice. … So I’ll take responsibility for that start to the game, and I just think we didn’t manage it well enough through the neutral zone, especially, and entering their zone. Their gaps were really good. They have great sticks. They got a lot of sticks on pucks and we didn’t make clean plays. When you’re not doing that, you just got to get it behind them and play simple. We just didn’t do that tonight. … Call it whatever you want … we didn’t mentally make the correct decisions at all tonight.”‘
Barzal scores three points in return, helps Islanders defeat Sabres
Source: NHL.com