Cooke took so many bad penalties and got called on anything marginal last season that he was often a liability.

"It's just got to end," Milbury said of his team's taking bad penalties.

"The unsportsmanlike was a bad penalty," said Muller, who added his second goal of the game five minutes later, making the score 3-0.

The Islanders were hurt by injuries and bad penalties.

The worst penalty was that they became estranged from us.

You can't expect to win a hockey game when you take so many bad penalties.

But I agree that the first player off the bench should get the worse penalty.

Brewer also took a bad penalty earlier in the game, putting the Islanders down two men.

The responsibility for bad penalties and from talking to the officials comes from the coach.

"If I remember we took some bad penalties" - try 6 for 64 yards.