"The Flyers were warned.

Peter Laviolette pleaded for his players not to look past a team they'd been manhandling for years. He warned everyone not take the New York Islanders as seriously as they should because seemingly tougher challenges await with games this Saturday in New Jersey and Boston in their building come Sunday.

His message never got through.

It didn't matter that goalie Sergei Bobrovsky stood on his head stopping four of five breakaways in the first two periods."