The Skinny: Islanders 2, Blue Jackets 0

Isles 2, Columbus 0

Semyon Varlamov made 35 saves for his thirty ninth profession shutout and the Isles were given targets from Kyle Palmieri and Matt Martin to earn a 2-0 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets earlier than a crowd of 15,424 at Nationwide Arena.

Varlamov, making his moment look of the season, now has 60 wins as an Islander, together with 14 by way of shutout. 

The Isles strengthen to 4-2-1 at the season and go back house to stand Detroit on Monday evening at 7:30pm.

The Scoring:

1st Period

Kyle Palmieri (3) Pierre Engvall (3), Sebastian Aho (1) 15:45 NYI 1,CBJ 0

second Period

No Goals

third Period

Matt Martin (1) Casey Cizikas (2) 16:39 NYI 2,CBJ 0

The Skinny  

Semyon Varlamov has stopped 74 of the 77 pictures he confronted this season; the Isles are the primary workforce to have a couple of goaltenders with a shutout…The Isles have allowed 201 pictures of their final 5 video games (2-2-1) after permitting most effective 42 of their first two video games; it’s the maximum pictures the Isles have allowed in a five-game stretch since February 2018….Casey Cizikas performed in his 752nd Isles sport, matching Mike Bossy for ninth position in membership historical past . …Kyle Palmieri now could be 3-4-7 within the first 7 video games, matching Noah Dobson for the workforce lead in issues.  Palmieri has had just one season (2018-19) the place he had greater than seven issues via his workforce’s first seven video games. … Mathew Barzal and Noah Dobson each noticed their level streaks finish at 5 video games… The Isles killed all 3 Columbus energy performs and feature killed 15 of 17 over the past 4 video games, together with all six this season at the street.… The Isles have outscored their fighters 7-3 within the first duration (the 3 targets allowed is tied for the fewest within the NHL) and feature scored the primary target in 5 in their seven video games ….The Isles snapped four-game level streaks for each Jack Roslovic and Ivan Provorov…Cal Clutterbuck and Matt Martin have blended for almost 7,500 hits within the NHL, however neither used to be credited with one this night….Martin did ranking his first target in 30 common season video games…Brock Nelson led all avid gamers with 8 pictures on target – two shy of his profession prime (10, additionally vs. Columbus, on 11/12/2022) and completed with 13 makes an attempt.

Silence the Cannon

Semyon Varlamov has 4 profession shutouts in opposition to the Blue Jackets, matching Roberto Luongo and Evgeni Nabokov for many all-time in opposition to Columbus.  

First Times in a Long Time

• The Isles are 4-2-1; the 9 issues in seven video games constitute their perfect 7-game get started since 2015-16 (additionally 4-2-1).
• Noah Dobson performed 25:25; he has performed no less than 25 mins in each and every of the final 3 video games (first Isle to that since Travis Hamonic in 2016) and no less than 24 mins in six directly video games (first since Hamonic in 2014).

Moving On Up

Semyon Varlamov tied Tommy Salo for fifth position at the membership shutout listing (14), changed into the eleventh goalie in membership historical past to win 60 video games, and broke a tie for Roland Melanson for tenth position in video games performed by way of an Isle goalie (137).

Among lively NHL goalies (and with the exception of Carey Price, who’s technically nonetheless lively), Varlamov is sixth in wins (273) and 3rd in shutouts (39).

Shoot the Puck!

The Isles had been getting extra rubber on target all through energy performs than they did final season:

• 2023-24  Isles have 36 pictures in 35:25 of PP   (1.02 pictures according to minute)
• 2022-23  Isles had 336 pictures in 379:43 of PP (0.88 pictures according to minute)

That’s a 16% build up in pictures according to minute spent at the energy play.

Heavy Hitters

Cal Clutterbuck and Matt Martin are actually 1-2 all-time in hits:

1. Cal Clutterbuck 3,771

1. Matt Martin 3,720

Martin (7) and Clutterbuck (3) have blended for the 10-biggest hits seasons in Isles historical past within the Real-Time technology, which started in 2005-06. 

Last Year vs. This Year

• 2023-24  4-2-1 for 9 issues in 7 video games
• 2022-23  3-4-0 for six issues in 7 video games

Offense from Defense

• Today:  0-1-1
• Season: 2-8-10
• Last Season (Final) 41-132-173

The Islander protection scored 41 targets final season, which used to be probably the most since they scored 42 in 2003-04.  The 173 issues have been their maximum since 1993-94, once they had 174 issues in an 84-game season.

Best of the Best

Ilya Sorokin has 17 shutouts in 135 profession begins. He has recorded a shutout in 12.6% of his begins, which is the easiest in NHL historical past (since 1943-44) amongst goalies with no less than 100 begins:

• Ilya Sorokin 12.6%
• Roman Cechmanek 12.2%
• Ken Dryden 11.8%
• Dominik Hasek 11.3%

Home and Road

The Isles are 4-2-1 total; they’re 3-1-1 at house and 1-1-0 at the street.

Columbus is 3-3-2 total; they’re 3-2-1 at house and 1-0-1 at the street.

East and West

The Isles are 3-1-1 in opposition to the East (1-0-1 vs. Metropolitan and 2-1-0 vs. Atlantic) and 1-1-0 in opposition to the West (1-1-0 vs. Central and 0-0-0 vs. Pacific).

Home is Where the Fans Are

The Isles have performed 87 video games at UBS Arena and recorded 62 sellouts of 17,255. 

Sweet Lou

Lou Lamoriello has the second-highest win general for any normal supervisor in NHL historical past:

1. David Poile 1,531

1. Lou Lamoriello 1,409

1. Glen Sather 1,319

First Things First

The Isles are 4-0-1 when scoring first and are 0-2-0 when permitting the hole target.

The Shots

Isles     14-9-10=33

Columbus 11-7-17=35

The Isles are 1-0-0 once they outshoot their fighters, 1-0-0 when the pictures are even and 2-2-1 when they’re out-shot.

In the Nets

Semyon Varlamov made 34 saves; he’s 1-1-0 at the season and 10-5-2 vs. Columbus.

Spencer Martin made 31 saves; he’s 1-2-0 at the season and 0-2-0 vs. the Isles.  

Special Teams

The Isles have been 0-3 at the energy play (6:00); Columbus used to be 0-3 at the energy play (6:00).

The Isles are 2-1-0 once they ranking no less than one energy play target and 2-1-1 when they don’t. The Isles are 1-1-1 once they permit no less than one energy play target and 3-1-0 when they don’t.

Three is (Usually) a Magic Number

The Isles are 2-1-1 once they ranking no less than 3 targets (together with shootout winners) and are 2-1-0 when they don’t.  Under Lane Lambert the Isles are 37-7-5 when scoring no less than 3 targets.

One-Goal Games

The Isles are 3-0-1 in video games made up our minds by way of a unmarried target together with 3-0 in law. They are 0-1 in video games made up our minds in additional time and are 0-0 in shootouts. The Isles are 0-1 in video games wherein an empty-net target turns a 1-goal sport right into a 2-goal sport.

Back-to-Backs

The Isles are 0-0-1 within the entrance finish and 0-1-0 within the again finish this season.  The subsequent set of back-to-backs might be on November 15 in Vancouver and November 16 in Seattle.  

Ice-time Leaders

Isles: Noah Dobson (25:25);  Columbus: Zach Werenski (24:24)

Brock Nelson led Isles forwards with 18:50 of ice-time. 

Isles file by way of ice-time leaders: Ryan Pulock (2-0-1), Noah Dobson (2-2-0)

Face-offs

Isles 23, Columbus 17 (58%)

Jean-Gabriel Pageau received 8 of 10 for the Isles; Boone Jenner received 10 of 15 for Columbus. 

Hit Count

Isles 10 (Jean-Gabriel Pageau -3)

Columbus 9 (Three with 2)

Fights 

None. Season general: 2 (Martin 1, Pelech 1)

Blocked Shots

Isles 19 (Adam Pelech and Alexander Romanov -3)

Columbus 15 (Erik Gudbranson -3)

For the Analytics Crowd 

Corsi: All eventualities: Isles 73, Columbus 71

Corsi: 5-on-5: Isles 56, Columbus 52

5-on-5 leaders:

Isles:  Kyle Palmieri +14

Columbus: David Jiricek +8

High Danger Scoring Chances (according to Natural Stat Trick)

All eventualities: Isles 12, Columbus 13

5-on-5: Isles 10, Columbus 9

Scratches

Julien Gauthier, Hudson Fasching, (Scott Mayfield -INJ)

Games Lost: 6

The Ironmen

Anders Lee performed in his 119th consecutive Islander sport; it Is the longest lively streak at the workforce.  (Ryan Pulock and Brock Nelson are the opposite present Islanders to seem in each and every sport final season and this season.)

Challenges

Isles: 0 a success, 0 disasters

Opponents: 0 a success, 1 disasters – BUF no offside  

Quickies

The Isles have scored two targets in beneath a minute no instances this season (no instances at house and none on street) and allowed two in the similar span two times (COL 10/25 x2)

Multi-Goal 3rd Period Comeback Wins