Last night’s game was just what the New York Islanders needed. It was perhaps not exactly their best game, but it was a solid performance on the road against the Columbus Blue Jackets, capped off by heeding my request in yesterday’s post to silence the cannon. Semyon Varlamov didn’t allow a single goal, stopping 34 shots for the shutout and his first win of the year.
After an 0-2-1 stretch, the Islanders have strung together two wins in a row and sit at 4-2-1 through seven games, with an identical record to the New Jersey Devils but sitting ahead of them, third place in the Metro Division, by virtue of an extra regulation win—all four of the Isles’ win have been in regulation.