Nor does it bring us any closer to deciding who will pay for Europe's sovereign debts, or how to shepherd its banking system through a necessary period of shrinkage without killing the supply of credit to the economy.
"Killing that (5-on-3) penalty when we were down 3-1 late in the first period, you could look at that as a turning point for us, " said Islanders forward Brad Boyes, who had a goal against his former team.