The start of the game was delayed nearly 30 minutes as New York feted Torrey, the architect of four Stanley Cup championship teams in the early 1980s, with a ceremony that included the best players in franchise history. You know it's going to get everybody going. They want the team to do well. They were excited for the guys. It means a lot to me to have the hockey team perform as well as they did tonight and find a way to win.
Tonight's a big night for everybody.
Czerkawski exchanged first-period goals with Mario Lemieux, the Penguins Hall of Famer who played his first game at Nassau Coliseum since beginning his historic comeback. But Dave Scatchard tied it at 3-3 on the power play, scoring the first of three straight Islanders' goals with four minutes left in the second. The Isles had lost seven straight at normally half-empty Nassau Coliseum, which gathered 16,297 fans for Saturday night's festivities. It was an exciting night. The pressure was on us to perform with Bossy, Nystrom, Gillies and everybody here.