The Islanders were one goal away from finishing their road trip in just about perfect fashion. But they couldn’t come up with a winner.
Instead, they ceded the game to the Wild, losing 2-1 in a shootout on Tuesday after Frederick Gaudreau’s winner to go home from a Central Division swing with a 1-0-1 record, still in the top wild-card spot and feeling a tad better about their playoff chances than they did leaving New York.
Despite a number of rush chances, they never quite looked settled in the offensive zone after the first, and with both netminders on their game, something had to give. In the shootout, Ilya Sorokin broke first, and Kyle Palmieri couldn’t respond for an Islanders team that is still yet to score in a shootout this season.
After that, the Wild quickly asserted control, taking advantage of sloppy defensive-zone play from the Islanders that resulted in long stretches where they got hemmed into their own zone. The Isles got a chance to reset things after a scoreless second period, but failed to take advantage.
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