With a lineup consisting of a few plugs and a couple of AHLers, the New York Islanders have somewhat improbably won two games in a row to teams with better points percentages than them, which are huge for their playoff push.
Last night, Ilya Sorokin did his thing and held the Winnipeg Jets to one goal (more on that below), allowing the Islanders to prevail even though they scored only twice. Two Swedes who hadn’t played much or at all before this season—Sebastian Aho and Simon Holmstrom—tipped the scales in favor of New York.