Islanders Power Play Woes May Finally Be Over
- Dominic Konareski
- 14 minutes ago
- 2 min read
A dominant power play unit is something that the New York Islanders have lacked for nearly a decade.
Over the past eight seasons, beginning with the 2018/19 team, has seen only the Ducks and Flyers post a worse man-advantage success rate than New York’s 17.2% mark. If the Islanders were to get a grade, it would be an F or at least a very borderline D-.
As the season draws closer to the finish line and a narrow playoff race heats up, the Islanders rank 28th out of 32 teams in the league this season at 16.4% for man-advantage success rate. The team has become more offensively dynamic this season under GM Mathieu Darche, which has been maintained by head coach Patrick Roy.
Despite the overall low percentage ranking, the special teams unit has been showing signs of life, which only became more evident during Tuesday night’s 3-1 win over the Maple Leafs. Although the Maple Leafs came in struggling, the Islanders proved consistent, as last night marked the second time in four games that they have scored two 5-on-4 goals.
What’s important about those four overall goals against shorthanded teams is that it is as many as the team has scored in their previous 12 games dating back to January 28th. The Islanders did in a four game span, which previously took them a dozen games to do. Now, this may just be a nice downhill jog for New York, but nonetheless seeing this type of consistency out of the special team unit gives a feeling of hope that the Islanders have finally turned things around.
The New York Islanders currently sit 3rd in the Metro, with a 39-24-5 record and 83 points. New York sits -7 points out of first with 14 games left of the regular season.
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