On a Saturday afternoon in Montreal ([checks notes] yeah, that’s right) the New York Islanders blew another one, losing against a bottom-tier team for the second game in a row, coughing up points against teams they can least afford to hand them to.
This time they at least salvaged one point, but the 4-3 overtime loss to the Canadiens was another confounding performance from an inconsistent team. They twice gave away one-goal leads in the third period, looking all the while like that’s exactly what would happen before the Canadiens finally made it so.
The Islanders had a power play in overtime but still could not get the win, then a tired unit gave up the winner after Mike Hoffman came out of the box, and his approach over the blueline — which caused a comically long offside review — led to the game winner by Mike Matheson.