And with his latest signing of Tony DeAngelo, that tells us one thing: The Islanders' playoff push is still on.
That was a significant reason the Islanders signed Tony DeAngelo, a known power-play specialist, on Friday before trading for Scott Perunovich on Monday. In DeAngelo's season debut, a 3-2 overtime win against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday, the power play went 0-for-3 with just two shots on goal.
With a five-game winning streak and eight victories in their last 10 games, the Islanders are as confounding as ever.
Today, the First and Second Quarter-Century Teams for the New York Islanders. Players are listed in alphabetical order.
The Senators should trade for Islanders forward Kyle Palmieri, who could be a crucial piece to their postseason push.
Another night, and another round of emotions while dealing with the NHL’s greatest, or worst, mystery box — goaltender interference.
For many years, the New York Islanders were a hockey team, if not without a home, without the kind of home its owners wanted.
NEWARK, N.J. -- It wasn’t until the last period of the last game of the 1995 Stanley Cup Final that New Jersey Devils coach Jacques Lemaire finally thought to himself, "You know, this might be possible." Lemaire was coach of the Devils, who swept the Detroit Red Wings in the ’95 Final for the franchise’s first championship.
The Colorado Avalanche are wrapping up their New York road trip with a matchup against the New York Islanders on Jan. 28, a game where the two teams made plenty of headlines off the ice.
The New York Islanders (23-20-7) marched into the Wells Fargo Center and soundly defeated the Philadelphia Flyers (23-24-6) 3-0 on Thursday night. Marc Gatcomb scored his first NHL goal, while Simon Holmstrom remained red-hot.
The Flyers’ continuing troubles in the second games of back-to-back matchups continued following a 3-0 loss to the New York Islanders, in a game in which Morgan Frost and Matvei Michkov did not see the ice halfway through the second period and beyond.