Shutouts have become the name of the game for the New York Islanders in 2024-25. Unfortunately, they’ve been on the wrong end.
After failing to find the back of the net on Wednesday night, a 2-0 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Islanders hit a historic low.
For the first time in their franchise’s history, they’ve been shut out in four of their first 10 games (40%).
With four shutouts coming in October, that’s the most in a month since matching that in November of 2011.
Both stats above are courtesy of Eric Hornick‘s, “The Skinny” which comes out after every game. You can find the latest one HERE.
Last season, the Islanders were shut out seven times in 82 games (8.53%).
Four of the seven shutout losses came during Patrick Roy’s 37 games behind the bench (10.81%) after he took over for Lane Lambert on Jan. 20.
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With the four shutouts this season, the Islanders have now been shut out in 17.02% of games that Roy has coached during the regular season.
In these games, the Islanders have averaged 31 shots on goal per game, allowing 23.5.
The power play is 0-for-7, while the penalty kill has been a perfect 4-for-4, only taking penalties in three of the games.
Each Islanders’ goaltender has been shut out twice.
Semyon Varlamov has turned aside 48 of 51 shots, a .941 SV%, in two games, a 3-0 shutout defeat to the Dallas Stars, and then the 2-0 loss to Columbus.
Ilya Sorokin has stopped 39 of 41, a .951 SV%, losing 1-0 to the St. Louis Blues and 1-0 to the Detroit Red Wings.
You can’t win games if you can’t score goals, no matter how good your goalie plays.