The New York Islanders’ shootout futility has reached hilarious, epic-bad proportions and could cost them a playoff spot.
Tuesday night they went to the NHL’s bonus-bonus round again, and again their opponent needed only one conversion to deny them an extra point. The Islanders are 0-5 in shootouts this year, after going 2-6 last year. But just as bad — or insulting, really — they don’t even lose fun shootouts, because they never score. Never. Over the last two seasons, they have 5 shootout “goals” on 44 shots.
The 2-1 loss was a fair, toss-up kind of result for two teams from opposite conferences playing not to lose in regulation.