Wild Spoil the Afternoon, Leave the Isles Reeling

The Islanders got dragged into the kind of game that turns a postgame room into a long one. Minnesota found enough offense to keep control, and New York could never fully wrestle it back once the tempo started tilting the wrong way. This is the kind of loss that sticks because the score was there for the taking, and the Islanders let it slip in a stretch where every point matters.