The Islanders also survived an unusual penalty call: delay of game.
Arbour called the penalty call against Reekie "very questionable, at that time of the game."
He was to be honored for having played the last three years without a penalty call against him.
Huge slice of luck for Green Bay on that drive when they were kept alive by a very harsh penalty call.
There is much debate about whether it was the right penalty call or not.
When he wanted a penalty call as his team dominated third-period play, he couldn't get one.
One came in the fourth quarter, when Cleveland's head coach became livid over a penalty call against his team.
The game would have ended on a penalty call.
He made no bruising body contact, for that would have brought a penalty call, but yanked hard on that arm.
"I did not see it clearly," Fassel said, referring to the penalty call.