Streaks have to end at some point; that’s what defines them. They’re impermanent. And last night, through 40 minutes, it looked like the Isles’ seven-game win streak and ten-game point streak. Despite trailing by only one goal, they never seemed in rhythm.
But Kieffer Bellows had other ideas.
Bellows entered the lineup to replace the injured Anders Lee and slotted right into Lee’s spot as top-line left wing. I didn’t much notice him through the first two periods. But I really didn’t notice anyone through the first two periods, besides Oliver Wahlstrom. (Wahlstrom, for what it’s worth, might have the dirtiest shot—snap, wrist, and slap—that I have ever seen an Islander rip; bear in mind that I was born in 1994 before you all yell at me about Mike Bossy.