In the finale of a January New York Islanders-Rangers trilogy that saw the two teams play each other three times in nine days, the Islanders were able to pull out a 4-2 win.
It's been a long, hard week or so for this team, and by the end of this game, they looked absolutely exhausted. Regardless, they outlasted the Rangers for a kinda gutsy, kinda sloppy 4-2 win in Manhattan.
Here are my three takeaways from Tuesday's game.
1. The Jekyll and Hyde Islanders
Throughout the course of the game, the Islanders looked at different times both like the team who set a franchise record point streak this season, and the team who has struggled so mightily in the roughly two months since that streak's demise.