The New York Islanders played four games in six nights this week, including one huge road game against a team they had been chasing and one home game against an opponent they hadn’t beaten in their last ten tries and hadn’t beaten at home since Doug Weight was the coach.
They won all four of them. Eight large points. They got a good amount of help on the scoreboard and took advantage of it. They now have a two-point lead for third in the Metro and are three points ahead of ninth place. There is plenty of work still to be done and scoreboards to watch, but if you’re a bubble team, you want to be where the Islanders currently are.