With each passing game, the playoffs are looking more and more like an inevitability for the Islanders.
After Kyle Palmieri’s shootout winner propelled the Isles to a 2-1 win over the Capitals on Wednesday, the Isles have two more points on the board, just seven games left and, according to MoneyPuck, odds of making it into the postseason at over 95 percent.
Two months ago, with the Islanders reeling going into the All-Star break, this scenario would have been implausible.Kyle Palmieri scores the game-winning shootout goal on Darcy Kuemper to give the Islanders a 2-1 win over the Capitals.It took the Islanders until the third period of this match to start putting together an offensive rhythm, but a hardened structure throughout blunted the cost of a quiet first 40 minutes.
Finally winning in a shootout — a format in which the Isles have been miserable this season — adds some catharsis to the win as well.After a first period in which the Islanders got off just three shots on net, Pierre Engvall got them on the board with a wrister that bounced off Darcy Kuemper’s chest pad and in 3:52 into the second.
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