When the Islanders flip the page to 2023, they’ll do so with all their pre-Christmas struggles behind them.
The Islanders rolled in their last game of the calendar year, easily dispatching the last-place Blue Jackets, 2-1, at UBS Arena on Thursday night. They’ll head west for a four-game trip starting on New Year’s Day with a three-game winning streak intact and a spot in the standings just above the playoff cutline.
After a quiet first period, Jean-Gabriel Pageau got the Islanders on the board at 7:12 of the second, cleaning up the garbage on a rebound from Hudson Fasching. Pageau made a nice play with his stick to steal the puck from Adam Boqvist on the far blue line and Fasching, replicating his goal against Vegas on Dec. 17, drove to the net with force to set up the rebound.
Even better, though, was Mathew Barzal’s one-timer at 16:39 of the second to make it 2-0. Not for the goal, Barzal’s eighth of the season, but for what it represented: snapping an 0-for-27 streak on the power play over which the team’s five-on-four game had been nothing more than abysmal. One goal won’t solve all their power-play issues, but it’s a start — and one the Islanders desperately needed.
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