It’s so typical of this weird New York Islanders season that they followed up a disappointing loss to a reeling team by knocking off the second-hottest team in the league.
Friday night’s turn of events was a 6-4 win over the New Jersey Devils, who had won 10 of 14 at home and had only lost three in regulation before meeting the Islanders. It makes perfect sense, in 2022-23 terms, that the Islanders were terrible against the Devils early in the season when we thought the Devils were terrible, and they played a complete game against the Devils after Jersey had stormed the entire league.