Isles tie franchise record 15 straight game point streak. 1 OT loss in that span. 29/30 points. And still trail the Caps by 5 fucking points. Sure, they have 4 games in hand, but the Caps play the Rangers tonight, so that's almost 2 points guaranteed.
Isles trailed by 2 with less than 5 minutes to go and my dog was begging to go out. I considered taking her, thinking I didn't want to see the streak end. Then I thought "but with the way they're playing, I won't miss the streak ending, I'll miss 2 to tie it and their OT winner." Can't say I've thought like that about the Isles in a loooooooooooooooong time.
Beauvillier is playing like a man possessed.
Nelson is actually scoring outside the month of October! And holy shit I thought he was going to DIE when Pulock's one-timer hit him in the helmet. Thankfully Nelson saw it coming and started ducking, causing it to glance off the upper part of the helmet, but you can clearly see a piece of the helmet break and shoot up with the puck. Classy of the Pens D and Murray to call the ref over and not even watch for where the puck went. He got a new helmet on the bench and they showed the trainer moving his numbers from the old helmet to the new one.
Barzal had a pretty rough game. Terrible give away on the PP lead to a SH goal for the Pens, which thankfully was overturned for offsides on review. Later he took a lazy penalty and the Pens scored. He was benched for a bit and played much better after that. I look forward to seeing how he plays on Thursday.
Varlamov is- meh. It's like Halak 2.0. He gives up 1 bad goal almost every game. The one off Pelech's skate shouldn't have happened. He seems to have trouble with players behind his net.