Looking for an improbable four points from road games in Vegas and Colorado, the Islanders at least scraped together a third point via a shootout loss to the Avalanche, in a game that will go down as a shutout for both goaltenders, Alexandar Georgiev (who gets the win) and Ilya Sorokin.
With Semyon Varlamov out injured and Sorokin slumping since reaching peak Vezina-candidate form, the Islanders really needed a strong night from the latter.
They got plenty of that, with Sorokin stopping 46 shots, including 19 in the third period.
It was a pretty good effort overall from the Islanders, though they started to kind of hang on for life for significant stretches of the third.