The Islanders salvaged a point on Tuesday, but could not do the same on Thursday, when the Wild beat them 3-1 following a third-period collapse.
Given that the Islanders are veering toward the wrong side of the playoff cutline with perhaps the best pair of goaltenders in hockey, it’s hard to guess how ugly this season might be without them.
The Isles salvaged a point on Tuesday but could not do the same on Thursday when the Wild beat them, 3-1, at UBS Arena following a third-period collapse. That made it four losses in a row and in five out of the last six games, neither of which the Islanders can particularly afford with their season at the intersection of mediocrity and real contention.Sam Steel scores the go-ahead goal on Ilya Sorokin during the third period of the Islanders’ 3-1 loss to the Wild.
Mere minutes later after a Scott Mayfield turnover, Mats Zuccarello fed Sam Steel an open net, and this time, Sorokin could not get over to stop it. Scott Mayfield accepts congratulations from teammates after scoring a first-period goal in the Islanders’ loss.Sorokin’s counterpart, Filip Gustavsson, gave up an ugly goal even by the standards of typical ugly goals, as Mayfield’s fling from the right point skipped off the ice and in at 16:49 of the first. On a night in which offensive opportunities were hard to come by, it looked like that might be enough for a while.
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