Semyon Varlamov notched his first shutout of the season as the New York Islanders ended their two-game skid with a complete game against a team they should beat (even though the Rangers couldn’t), a 3-0 professional dispatching of the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Blackhawks were coming off a 5-2 win over the Smurfs the previous night, but that was the Central cellar-dwellers first win in nine games.
Matt Martin, Zach Parise and Brock Nelson each scored at 5-on-5 in just over a six-minute span in the second period, and that essentially put the game away.