The Islanders’ playoff fate fell out of their own hands with an 5-2 blowout loss to the Capitals in which they were about as close to winning as Charlie Brown was to kicking the football.
The loss does not eliminate the Isles from playoff contention, but it does amount to inviting the Penguins to hop them in the standings.
The Islanders will not only need to beat Montreal on Wednesday, but hope that one of the two squads tanking for Connor Bedard pulls off a massive upset in order to get them into the playoffs. Shell-shocked and rattled, the Islanders would only recover enough to force Darcy Kuemper into a few acrobatic saves on a night in which he finished with 38 total and easily outplayed Ilya Sorokin.
Dylan Strome took advantage of a giveaway from Adam Pelech to lash a right-circle wrist shot past Sorokin to open the scoring. Over the ensuing 47:47, the Islanders got their fair share of chances but could not finish enough of them.
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