Islanders’ Johnny Boychuk takes skate to face, evaluated after game
There was a scary scene at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. With just over 11 minutes remaining in the third period of the Islanders’ 6-2 loss to the Canadiens, New York’s Johnny Boychuk and Montreal’s Artturi Lehkonen got tangled up in front of the home team’s net. Boychuk pushed Lehkonen out of the crease, and as the Montreal forward fell, his right skate came up and clipped Boychuk in the