Oh, you saw that coming.
Coming off their “best performance of the season,” the Islanders returned home before the break to host a Buffalo Sabres team that was winless in 13 and was going to put its all into ending that streak and entering the Christmas break on a high note.
The Islanders obliged, getting themselves booed off the ice after all three periods.
Just five shots on goal in the first period (trailing 2-0), another power play goal allowed by their awful penalty kill in the second, two terrible turnovers to make it 5-0, and away they went.