from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

And for his greatest trick of all, Garth Snow has turned three goaltenders into none.

The Islanders’ GM presides over a team that simply cannot keep the puck out of its net in surrendering 25 goals in losing their last five straight in regulation — two fours, one five and a pair of sixes — and the staggering sum of 78 goals (4.33 per) while going 5-11-2 since the beginning of December.

Of course this is not just on the goaltenders — it never is — and perhaps moving Travis Hamonic for futures wasn’t quite so brainy, but Jaro Halak and Thomas Greiss have conspired to allow four or more goals in 13 of the last 17 (six, six times!) and rank next to last in the NHL with a .8913 save percentage, .0002 better than Arizona.

And .8913 would have been lousy even back in the mid-’90s, when Snow was doing his Michelin Man act for the Flyers.

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