The Islanders needed a win on Saturday in the worst way.
And of the three people that most helped them get it, not one was a name you would’ve expected to be in the lineup for a game of such importance. Semyon Varlamov, Hudson Fasching and Simon Holmstrom were the heroes the Islanders found, and that turned out to be every bit good enough for a 5-2 victory over the Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena.
Varlamov stopped 35 of 37 shots, standing tall when the Islanders were seemingly hemmed into their own zone every other shift, managing the puck poorly and failing to match the energy of Vegas. It was starting to look as though Varlamov was making the case to start on Monday in Colorado, until he suddenly left the game, seemingly with injury, with 6:22 to go in the third period.
Then Holmstrom, in the lineup after Nick Ritchie’s hit up high late in Friday’s game rendered Kyle Palmieri out, went and scored his first-ever NHL goal on a slot shot at 17:36 to go in the second to put the Isles up 3-1. The Islanders needed heroes, and it wasn’t Mathew Barzal or Anders Lee who came up big this time. Although it must be said that Lee played a strong all-around game, and got them on the board with a one-timer at 18:58 of the first. Nope, this was a night where Fasching looked like a marquee addition in free agency and Holmstrom, 11 games into his NHL career, finally broke through.
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