As we’ve done our schedule watching and sketched out how the Islanders are either doomed or in great (wild card) position over the past two months, I must say two games in a week against the Winnipeg Jets is not where I had them taking four regulation points.
Last week’s 2-1 win felt like a “okay good, gutted out one of them” result. Yesterday afternoon’s 4-0 disassembly was something else entirely.
Granted, it helped that David Rittich at times appeared unacquainted with the basic tenets of goaltending — including Bo Horvat’s sneaky shorthander — but the Isles’ dominant first period deserved at least something, so might as well have been that one.