Lane Lambert kept Adam Pelech and Ryan Pulock, the Islanders’ top defensive pair, apart again in their 3-2 loss to the Kings.
A week ago, when asked to explain his hesitation in changing up the Islanders’ defensive pairings, coach Lane Lambert said breaking up Adam Pelech and Ryan Pulock was a nonstarter.Indeed, they have been. Because of how much Lambert trusts them, Pelech and Pulock have been the Islanders’ most-used defensive pair this season, despite Pelech missing more than a month with injury.
“I think you look at each game and each individual game and potentially helping other guys as well in just mixing the pairs up,” Lambert said Friday morning before keeping them apart forRyan Pulock checks the Kings’ Arthur Kaliyev into the boards on Friday night at UBS Arena.In short, the thought was that with Mayfield and Romanov, in particular, struggling to break the puck out, the Islanders could be a little more balanced this way. In, that worked fine.
“If you watch the entire game, those guys do play together. They get mixed around,” he said. “And when they are [starting] together, sometimes they don’t play together in games. It’s just a matter of whatever scenario and whatever situation. Matching the defense and those guys is more situational and circumstantial than it is, ‘Oh, this guy’s with this guy all the time.’ ”
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