The New York Islanders are still keeping things interesting, we’ll give them that.
For the second time in a week, they entered the third period against the vaunted Colorado Avalanche with a chance to win, and once again they let things slip away.
It was a completely different script Monday night at Belmont, however: Instead of taking the lead early in the third, they gave up four goals in the blink of an eye before making it interesting again for what ended up a 5-4 loss.
Despite conceding five goals, Semyon Varlamov actually put in a head-standing performance, with 44 saves, several of them of the jaw-dropping nature.