The Islanders pulled out yet another overtime win \u2014 their eighth in eight tries this season \u2014 and another two points from a game where they didn\u2019t have their best and their opponent left feeling like they deserved better.<\/p>\n
Trailing 2-0 early in the second period, Ilya Sorokin kept the Isles in the game long enough for them to mount a comeback, tying it with two goals in 22 seconds and even taking a 3-2 lead five minutes later. That feel-good spell was tempered when Columbus equalized just 1:48 after a rare Scott Mayfield go-ahead goal, and with just a minute left in the middle period.<\/p>\n
But at least the Islanders had made a game of it after things looked stark in the first 30 minutes. The Isles got the bounces to get back in the game, as well as a friendly review denying Columbus\u2019 goalie interference challenge on the equalizer. The third was scoreless, setting the stage for the Isles\u2019 bread and butter.<\/p>\n
Because then came the hero: Simon Holmstrom took a long pass and a page out of his runningmate J-G Pageau\u2019s play book by carrying down the right wing and going across the net for the winner. Instead of tucking through the pads like Pageau in OT two nights prior, Holmstrom used his long reach to go all the way around Jet Greaves.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s good eatin\u2019 the Islanders are enjoying this year in overtime. There is definitely a fresher, smarter approach to OT than frustrating recent seasons, and there\u2019s also the effect of having Matthew Schaefer around, but going 8-0 in OT through the first three quarters of the season is a run that will have you looking over your shoulder for Lady Luck\u2019s sinister sibling.<\/p>\n
For now, though, and as long as it rides, we\u2019ll gladly take it.<\/p>\n
The win gives the Isles four in a row and both on the road coming out of the Olympic break, keeping Metro chasers like Columbus behind.<\/p>\n
Also: Anders Lee scored in consecutive games for the first time this season, scoring in his 900th game (tying Bobby Nystrom) and now his 901st (tying Brock Nelson). He has over 130 goals since the Isles retired John Tonelli\u2019s #27 while allowing Lee to keep it and continue a bid to earn a banner of his own.<\/p>\n
The Islanders are back home to face the Panthers Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders pulled out yet another overtime win \u2014 their eighth in eight tries this season \u2014 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[26255,5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-478486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-bits-o-islanders-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-islanders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkislanders","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116152680397188380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}