In their last chance at two points before the outdoor game hoopla, the Islanders really needed a better showing than Saturday afternoon but they couldn’t pull it off.
They really needed two points but they only got one, and barely.
They needed a bounce-back that reflects they know how important each opportunity is but instead they, well they looked kind of lost. Against a struggling team playing on back-to-back nights (but we should stop implying that should be an advantage for this team, because it clearly isn’t).
After two meh periods they mounted a marginally better effort to begin the third, only to regress and require Ilya Sorokin to get themselves to overtime, after giving up prime opportunity after prime opportunity down the stretch.