It looked like the sky was falling on the 2016 New York Islanders season just two weeks ago. But, with the current Islanders point streak they’ve got themselves back to the .500 mark.
The big change is the penalty kill. Last year the Islanders were very good on the pk. Even at the start of this year they were very solid, but it fell apart during the Isles tough stretch. Over the past seven games they’ve killed 19 in a row.
“It just sort of creates predictability when you do it right a few times and you just get on a roll,” Thomas Hickey said.