New York Islanders are on a 17 game point streak (now ended by ANA)

[JTToilinginToronto]

12 of them wins

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[Mez]

12 of them wins

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Much points, good wins, players enjoy lots, such wow!

 

[JTToilinginToronto]

Much points, good wins, players enjoy lots, such wow!

Bring in the dancing lobsters

 

[Strait2thecup]

Not sustainable. Ignore this. Please go to the panthers are in 3rd place thread.

I do not want to hear about the talentless islanders

 

[koyvoo]

Personally, I’ll need a good 400-500 game sample size before I start thinking this is sustainable.

 

[TheAngryHank]

Wings fan whom always had a soft spot for the islanders ,even though someone should have drafted me in the playoffs vs Pittsburgh.

 

[MattMartin]

12 of them wins

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No, just no.

 

[Ducks in a row]

Imagine what would happen if Islanders win the Cup

 

[CartographerNo611]

Lou is paying Mr. Pink Whitney himself to jinx a bad season during the summer. Only logical explanation.

 

[I am Canadian]

Hands down a great team to watch tonight.
There are very speedy and their building was rocking. Is it normally like that or just because the Leafs were in town?

 

[benedictTavares]

After the last two minutes of that game we should not be gloating or making threads.

 

[Ignite111]

12 of them wins

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this game didn’t count leafs didn’t have marner.

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[the]

Man this is one heck of a team that Lou Lamoriello built.

 

[Bounces R Way]

 

[SI90]

Well, it was nice while it lasted.

 

[1 Timer]

Good Lord, way to start the losing streak!!! Lets just enjoy it. Caps are still in first and we have just kept pace.

 

[Papa044]

They’ll lose in 2nd round again

 

[BelovedIsles]

‘Are the Islanders really this good?’

 

[c9777666]

but who have they beaten?

 

[skyo]

Isles fans chirpin' Tavares:

 

[kuzy92]

Unfortunately the Caps are on their own 13 game point streak.. Isles are a great team, they are coached by the best!!

 

[Puckstop40]

Personally, I’ll need a good 400-500 game sample size before I start thinking this is sustainable.

Don’t worry. The nay-sayers will be there at game 501 saying “i ToLd yOu uNsUsTaInaBleZ”

 

[Kevin27NYI]

Hands down a great team to watch tonight.
There are very speedy and their building was rocking. Is it normally like that or just because the Leafs were in town?

We’re loud

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

I don’t know if it’s Trotz’s defensive system or if it’s goaltender coach Mitch Korn, but I’m becoming convinced that these guys have some way of making a heavy positive influence on goaltender performance - even according to statistics which factor shot quality into goaltender performance.

“dfSV%” is a goaltender’s actual save percentage (on all unblocked shots, including those that miss the net) minus their expected save percentage on all unblocked shots. It is, in my opinion, one of the best statistics for judging goaltender performance on a per shot basis; far better than raw save percentage.

Highlighted are seasons where Barry Trotz was head coach:

We’re still working with a very small sample for 2019-2020, but this is note worthy nonetheless. And even if you remove the 2019-2020 seasons for all 5 goaltenders, there is still clearly a very strong trend here.

I think we may need to accept that while goaltending is generally volatile and the kind of goaltending that the NYI have got over 1.2 years now is not generally sustainable, they are coached by Barry Trotz, and Barry Trotz's teams are far more likely to sustain excellent goaltending than normal teams.