from Andrew Gross of Newsday,

The Islanders now have the second-longest winning streak in franchise history at 10 games.

And that might not have been the most noteworthy item to come out of Tuesday night’s 4-1 win over the Senators before a crowd of 11,212 at Barclays Center, their first game of the season in Brooklyn.

Pick from this: Cole Bardreau, the 26-year-old rookie whose career was nearly derailed in college, became the seventh player in NHL history to score his first goal on a penalty shot, capping it with an emotional celebration. Or, Cal Clutterbuck scoring his first goal in 32 games. Or, Casey Cizikas scoring shorthanded for his first goal of the season.

“I think it says that after four extremely mediocre games to the start of the year, it was time for us to kind of look at each other and look in the mirror and decide whether we wanted to give this a go or not,” said Clutterbuck, who tied the game at 1-1 with an extra effort at the crease just 39 seconds after Jean-Gabriel Pageau opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal at 7:44 of the first period. “To a man we did. We want to continue getting better.”

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