On a night when the Islanders began their new reality and when Lou Lamoriello emphatically stated his stance on not “tearing down” and going into a rebuild that “takes 10 years” (and also emphasized that yes, he has a boss and every GM does), they got a must-have two points in a 4-2 win over the 32nd-place Sharks.
It wasn’t pretty in the beginning, and it could’ve gone upside down, but Ilya Sorokin held them in early and the Isles were opportunistic to secure a win on the first of three games in four nights on this March California march.