New York Islanders defenseman Matthew Schaefer made history Tuesday night, becoming the first NHL player to skate the entire five-minute overtime period without leaving the ice since the league began officially tracking real-time ice time in 2009-10. The Islanders went on to beat the Nashville Predators 4-3 in a shootout.

Schaefer capped his marathon shift by skating back to defend a potential breakaway in the closing seconds of overtime. He chased down Predators forward Filip Forsberg and separated him from the puck before he could get a shot away.

It was also the longest shift by an Islanders skater on record (since 2009-10), passing the previous mark set by Casey Cizikas of 4 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 2023.

Schaefer led all skaters with 32:16 of total ice time and is averaging the fourth-most ice time per game of any player in the NHL this season. He also logged an assist for his 11th point of the season, which leads all Islanders defensemen and ranks eighth league-wide among blueliners.

It was also a notable evening for another Islander; Semyon Varlamov stopped 20 shots for his first NHL win in 712 days. His last victory came on Nov. 14, 2024. The veteran netminder returned to play this season after having each of his knees partially replaced. It was his 77th overall win with the Islanders, tying him with Roland Melanson for eighth place on the franchise’s all-time list.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1xgyfik/hometown_remix_jersey_leaks_via_jersey_nerds/

Schedule is here: https://www.nhl.com/islanders/news/islanders-announce-2026-27-hometown-remix-jersey-schedule

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In some ways, it's an absolute miracle both teams didn't lose this game in regulation. By multiple goals. Seriously how did we survive that onslaught in the last 60% of the game?

Who’s in Nashville tonight? Anyone meeting up? I’m putting together a team. We’re gonna WILL these fuckin jerks to a regulation win tonight I don’t care if I have to cling to Horvat’s back and tell him where to go and what to do. We’re taking these 2 points tonight I do not care.

Our new longest drought in a city is LA, with our last win there being on October 18, 2018. Valtteri Filppula had 2 Goals and an Assist, Anders Lee had a Goal and 2 Assists, and Mayfield had 3 Assists in a 7-2 win. This year we play the Kings in LA on November 12, 14 days from now.

Anthony Duclair has been on a roll lately! Do you think he will ever start a desert company called Duclair's Eclairs?

Anyway, we should sing a song about Anthony Duclair to encourage more goals... and maybe some desserts!

Has anyone parked in the ruby parking lot at UBS? Is it close to the arena? Is there bad traffic getting out? Would you rather do that or take the train from ronkonkoma? Thanks

What’s Debour’s excuse of the day? Barzal was building a tree house and forgot to cut out the door? It’s his tree house he knows what he’s doing?