Mat Barzal had four points and Semyon Varlamov stopped 39 shots as the New York Islanders somehow won an overtime game they tried to blow again and again, as is their pattern this season.
Except this time, they didn’t really earn the leads they blew, they stumbled into them while walking through this game like zombies. Yet somehow, Barzal finished the 5-4 win after a pretty rush and give-and-go with Noah Dobson to get one arm of this seasonlong monkey off their back.
The name of the Isles’ game for the night was passivity. No urgency.