Following a game in which the New York Islanders scored four goals against the mighty New Jersey Devils, they mustered just one goal in a 3-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres 24 hours later. Here's the locker room reaction.

BUFFALO, NY -- Following a game in which the New York Islanders scored four goals against the mighty New Jersey Devils, they mustered just one goal in a 3-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres 24 hours later.

The game slipped away at the tail-end of the second period after a few costly decisions. 

While not penalized for a knee-on-knee penalty, Adam Pelech dropped the gloves with Alex Tuch, who was defending his teammate Jeff Skinner.

Although the Islanders were given a power play, with Tuch getting the extra two minutes for roughing, the Sabres killed the penalty, stole back momentum, and never let it go. 

The fourth line turned the puck over minutes later for Buffalo's first tally, and Adam Pelech stepped and missed, leading to their second goal, all coming in a span of 2:46. 

"I thought, just through the neutral zone, just our puck management, it has to be better," Islanders head coach Lane Lambert said after the loss. "It's two nights in a row now where we're trying. The intentions are good, but unintended consequences come along with that. 

"And when you turn the puck over in the neutral zone, certainly against fast teams, and you know every team in this league is fast, and [can] transition quickly, you find yourself back in your own zone and spending way too much time there. So we just have to manage the puck better. You just have to do it."

Dobson echoed his head coach's sentiments, citing puck management as a consistent issue from Friday night and Saturday's result.

"First was fine. Second kind of got away from us," Dobson told The Hockey News. "Same thing as last night, puck management. Long change. You've got to manage the park in the second. We kept turning the puck, over they kept catching us in waves, and we got stuck out there."

The Islanders lack of discipline remained an issue, with Casey Cizikas taking another penalty to make it three in two games. 

Although the penalty kill was perfect, stopping three of three after allowing four goals on five Devils chances Friday, there's been a tremendous amount of pressure put on the penalty killers in back-to-back games, especially on certain players filling penalty kill roles.

A lot of that has to come with being pinned in their own zone too often, leading to fatigue and then doing what they can to slow down the opponent. 

"We got to be better than that, in that regard, and a little bit more careful and not give a team like Buffalo, with a good power play, any chance," Islanders captain Anders Lee said. 

As for the lack of offense: "We didn't have our best night tonight. On a tough back-to-back like this, our detail has to be that much more imperative, and I think it was too much on the other side tonight. Little things that just cost us possession. They had some good zone time because of it, so we're able to kind of wear us down a little bit, and we weren't able to break it enough to get our own pressure."