Islanders still lose to Kings on night they did everything else right

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New York Post · collected 2026-10-23 · by Ethan Sears

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Artemi Panarin scored twice as the Los Angeles Kings beat the Islanders 3-2 in overtime on Thursday night at UBS Arena. Despite controlling play and outshooting the Kings significantly, the Islanders struggled to capitalize on scoring opportunities and were hindered by goaltending mistakes from Semyon Varlamov. The game ended with Brandt Clarke's winning goal just after Bo Horvat’s shot early in overtime, leaving the Islanders frustrated about a missed opportunity for two points at home.
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58 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
🔮 Artemi Panarin pondered the question of whether it would feel like a homecoming of sorts to play on Long Island, and in the moment, he never really answered it.
🔮 The last scene similar to that, which greeted Brady Tkachuk in his return to the Canadian Tire Center following an unhappy divorce with the Senators, might be as far back as eight seasons ago when John Tavares was greeted with sheer hostility by the crowd at Nassau Coliseum on Feb. 28, 2019.
🔮 Do all of that and the players who are missing from the lineup will not be so front of mind.
🔮 Maybe they’ll both emerge for practice Monday no worse for wear and the whole episode can be forgotten.
🔮 And it was understandable to assume, at age 35, that this season wouldn’t be much different for a player who had taken a step back during his tenure as a New Jersey Devil.
🔮 Kyle Palmieri’s demotion to the fourth line was the story Saturday morning, but it will almost assuredly be temporary given the Islanders ended a 4-1 win over the Maple Leafs down to 10 forwards.
🔮 Mitchell Chaffee does too, and could play as a grinder in the bottom six, but is unlikely to fill an offensive hole.
🔮 Things worked out pretty well with Johnston and Harley, and the safe bet is that they will with Ritchie too.
🔮 “I haven’t been with these guys for two or three years where, a coach that has that experience with a group … that’s had success with certain line combinations over a long period of time, maybe gives a little more runway.
🔮 OTTAWA — It looked for a while on Thursday night like the Islanders’ structure might overcome their sloppiness.
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Islanders Isles Kings

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Islanders ORG · 12× Varlamov PERSON · 4× Kings ORG · 3× Panarin PERSON · 2× Artemi Panarin PERSON · 1× Brandt Clarke’s PERSON · 1× Darcy Kuemper PERSON · 1× Matthew Schaefer’s PERSON · 1× Semyon Varlamov’s PERSON · 1× Victor Eklund’s PERSON · 1×

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It’s not the first time this year they’ve lacked finishing, and it was the second of Semyon Varlamov’s three starts in which he’s looked rusty at best. Those two things were the difference much more than Panarin, who twice beat Varlamov when the goaltender was behind the play and looked out of position.
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🔮 Artemi Panarin pondered the question of whether it would feel like a homecoming of sorts to play on Long Island, and in the moment, he never really answered it.
2026-10-23 · New York Post
Islanders still lose to Kings on night they did everything else right · assertive framing

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Artemi Panarin pondered the question of whether it would feel like a homecoming of sorts to play on Long Island, and in the moment, he never really answered it. asserted
he → ponder → it
“It’s a hard question,” he said. asserted
he → ’ → ?
Seven-and-a-half hours later came the answer, and it wasn’t to the Islanders’ liking. asserted
it → come → liking
Panarin doesn’t return to Madison Square Garden for four more days, but he made UBS Arena feel like his old digs on Broadway anyway, scoring twice before Brandt Clarke’s overtime winner as the Kings beat the Islanders 3-2 on Thursday night. asserted
Kings → return → night
What made the night more frustrating for the Islanders is that there wasn’t really much of anything for them to be upset about aside from the result. asserted
them → make → result
They owned the run of play, had the Kings doubled up on shots on goal throughout — and tripled up for long periods of time — and tilted the ice all night. asserted
Kings → own → ice
It’s not the first time this year they’ve lacked finishing, and it was the second of Semyon Varlamov’s three starts in which he’s looked rusty at best. Those two things were the difference much more than Panarin, who twice beat Varlamov when the goaltender was behind the play and looked out of position. asserted
goaltender → ’ → position
By any meaningful statistic except for that on the scoreboard, the Islanders had the better of the night, but those two goals were enough for the Kings to hold a precarious 2-1 lead heading into the last 20 minutes. asserted
Kings → have → minutes
The Islanders’ lone goal to that point had also come on a goaltending miscue, as Darcy Kuemper mishandled Victor Eklund’s power-play one-timer at 14:06 of the second. asserted
Kuemper → come → second
The Islanders got painfully closer still, tying the game 7:06 into the third on Matthew Schaefer’s first goal of the season, a bullet of a wrist shot from the right circle. asserted
Islanders → get → circle
That belied, though, that the third period was the visitors’ best. asserted
period → belie → ?
Even with Varlamov noticeably sharper, the Islanders couldn’t tilt the ice as much as they had and couldn’t make good on the momentum from Schaefer’s goal. asserted
they → tilt → goal
The Islanders did retain their points streak — now at five games — by getting to overtime, and no one will complain about a homestand in which they took three of four points. asserted
they → retain → points
But for the second time in their past four games, the Isles were left with one point thinking they could have had two. uncertain
they → leave → two
After Bo Horvat’s shot 20 seconds into overtime, the Islanders didn’t touch the puck again before Clarke’s winner. asserted
Islanders → touch → winner
Mostly, this game served for the Islanders as a frustrating two points not to get on home ice, but not much of a big-picture indication of anything. asserted
game → serve → anything
To the extent you could pinpoint any concern, it might be Varlamov. uncertain
it → pinpoint → concern
His glove side in particular has looked susceptible throughout the preseason and regular season. asserted
side → look → preseason
His third start of the season is probably still too early to start wondering about whether two partial knee surgeries will prove too much for him to be an effective backup for the Islanders, especially given he had a .905 save percentage through the first two. asserted
he → start → two
Mostly, he looks more like a player still getting up to speed after missing a serious amount of time with injury than anything. asserted
he → look → anything
It wasn’t all bad on Thursday either; Varlamov handled Adrian Kempe’s penalty shot and stopped 24 of 27 attempts in total on a night when he went shifts at a time without much work, so much did his club tilt the ice away from him. asserted
club → handle → him
But it’ll take more than that for the Islanders to abandon this plan, particularly given they don’t have a comfortable plan B within the organization anyway. asserted
they → take → organization
This was a frustrating way to lose. asserted
This → lose → ?
It wasn’t a particularly indicting one. asserted
It → indict → ?
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