Home cooking did not do the trick, and the Isles have now gone a week, and four games, without a win.
If there was any spiritual irony in the latest setback to the New York Islanders' playoff seed aspirations, it was that their former teammates Mark Streit and Andrew MacDonald assisted on the winning goal by Brandon Manning, the first of his NHL career, as the Philadelphia Flyers downed the Isles 4-1 in Brooklyn.
Streit and MacDonald are two would-be contracts the Islanders avoided as their rebuild matured, UFA-market rate deals they foisted on their rivals as Philadelphia descended into a rebuild of their own.