In Elmont, the New York Islanders handed the Philadelphia Flyers their eighth straight, 4-1, on Monday.
Ilya Sorokin made 26 saves in the Isles win.
“I’m comfortable,” Sorokin said. “We have a good transition where I play one game, and we play [Semyon Varlamov] one game. I feel good.”
Casey Cizikas and Brock Nelson scored a goal each and two points on the night.
“Standings are tough to look at,” Cizikas said. “You can look at them one way and kind of be upset, or you just take it game by game, and I think that’s what we’re doing here. Each game is the most important game of the year to us right now, and at the end of the season, if we keep playing the way we are, we keep growing as a group and playing the way that we are, then we’re going to like where we’re sitting.”
The Islanders improved to 12-13-6.
Travis Konecny scored the Flyers lone goal.
“You look at the second period, the chances that we had, I thought that we looked fast at different points of the game,” Flyers coach Mike Yeo said. “We’re working extremely hard for anything that we get right now, but there’s still moments or times in the game where we just give up something too easily.”
Philadelphia dropped to 13-18-7.
Anthony Beauvillier and Mark Martin also scored for the Isles.
Martin Jones made 27 saves in the Flyers loss.
“Honestly, I thought we played pretty well tonight,” Jones said. “We were able to get in on the forecheck and spend more time in the [offensive] zone, which was great. Defensively, I thought we were pretty good. We were pretty strong in our own end. We didn’t really give up many odd-man rushes.
“We’re right there. We just need to find a way to win right now.”
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