BOSTON — Lately, it seems as though the Islanders are able to do this every three or four games.
In a way, that’s what makes it all the more frustrating that they’ve had such a terrible last four weeks. They know they are capable of playing like they played on Sunday against the Bruins, going into a playoff team’s building, controlling much of the game and walking out with a 5-4 overtime victory after Bo Horvat’s game-winner.
Encouraging as it was to see the Isles break their three-game losing streak and play a straight-line game in which they tilted the TD Garden ice in the right direction on Sunday, though, the issue at this point in the season is not whether the Islanders can play a good game.
It’s whether they can play multiple games in a row like this.
And the more they struggle to do that, the more good games in a row they need to climb out of their hole.
