At least for now, the Islanders stopped the bleeding.

Doing so on the same night the organization honored Brent Sutter — inducting him into the team’s Hall of Fame and unveiling his name on the Ring of Honor at UBS Arena — with one of the season’s better crowds in attendance, gave a little bit extra to Saturday night’s 4-1 win over the Sharks.

This was a much-improved effort from the disastrous first two games of the homestand, and it didn’t hurt that the Islanders had Alexander Romanov and Simon Holmstrom making returns to their lineup — both from upper-body injuries.

Ryan Pulock (right) celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during the third period of the Islanders’ 4-1 home win over the Sharks on Jan. 18, 2025. Robert Sabo for NY Post

Those weren’t the only changes coinciding with the improvement.

For the first time since Oct. 29, Mathew Barzal and Bo Horvat started a game on the same line, a change that led to Brock Nelson and Kyle Palmieri reuniting as well.

With Maxim Tsyplakov suspended, Marc Gatcomb rejoined the team for his second-ever NHL game.

There was also Marcus Hogberg in net, continuing to look like a steady option with 18 saves after Patrick Roy opted for the Swede over Ilya Sorokin.

“Both those guys [Nelson and Horvat] are really good. I think they’re little bit different players, but they both mesh well,” Barzal told The Post after he and Nelson both put up goals following the switch. “I’ve obviously always played well with Bo.”

Attributing this win solely to lineup changes, though, would be an injustice.

The Islanders, who had looked so flat throughout the first two games of this homestand, played with a renewed effort and intensity.

Marcus Hogberg makes a save during the second period of the Islanders’ win over the Sharks. Robert Sabo for NY Post

There was an emotion to their game that has been all too rare this season. They forechecked, they worked to keep the puck in the zone, they attacked with zeal.

“We were better and connected,” captain Anders Lee said. “I think we had five guys and gave ourselves options. I think that’s the biggest difference. When you’re not connected as a group, when we have too much separation, whether it’s coming out of the zone or even in the offensive zone, you don’t have that support for a second touch or a second puck.

“You struggle to get the puck back or make a clean play. You’re just chipping out to live another day, which is fine at times, but you’re not creating momentum and push.”

Noah Dobson (right) shoots and scores but the goal is reversed during the first period of the Islanders’ win over the Sharks. Robert Sabo for NY Post

Instances of the Islanders settling for a mere chip-and-change on Saturday were exceedingly rare.

And, after knocking on Alexandar Georgiev’s door for much of the first, they knocked it right down in the second, with goals from Barzal, Nelson and Noah Dobson — the first two off breakaways and the latter coming on a point shot through traffic which hit off a Sharks defenseman and in.

Barclay Goodrow’s shot from above the right circle followed Barzal’s goal, beating Hogberg clean on what’s been the only bad goal let up in four starts from the third-stringer.

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But Nelson’s came just 40 seconds after that, in what has been a rare instance this season: the Islanders bailing out their goaltender, instead of asking their goaltender to bail them out.

The Islanders did not let up in the third, with Ryan Pulock adding a fourth goal just 1:03 into the period on a right-point blast that beat Georgiev clean.

Indeed, there was no collapse coming here. After the head coach said his team didn’t have the necessary hunger following each of the last two games, there was no questioning that on Saturday.

“I don’t think it was a statement [from Roy] to attack the character of the team and say that we don’t want to go out there and produce,” Nelson said. “I think that’s not the issue, but at the same time, you always want to strive for more. Especially when things aren’t going well, you have to find a way to push through it and be hungry and I think that’s just the bottom line and tonight we did that.”

They did it with franchise royalty watching on, and keeping it up is nothing short of absolute necessity if there is any shot of jump-starting this season.

“You’d think a game like this will make us understand that we play north, we move it fast and we have success,” Roy said. “So when you have success, I’d like to think you want to repeat that.”