Every Ranger was a "+" as the Blueshirts completed a sweep of the season series with a 9-2 win over the Isles before a sellout crowd of 17,255 at UBS Arena. The Rangers outscored the Isles 23-5 in the season series. The Isles head to Philadelphia on Saturday and New Jersey on Sunday for a pair of matinee games.

It was your own imagination that put the pieces together around 11:30 or so, long past bedtime, shortly after the Islanders somehow blew a 3-0 third-period lead: Jude Drouin winning the overtime faceoff, pushing the puck to defenseman Bert Marshall, who slid it to his blue-line partner Dave Lewis, who dumped it into the Rangers’ zone.