No. 1 beat No. 2 and the Islanders got win No. 3.

And it wasn’t just two points for Matthew Schaefer’s Islanders over Michael Misa’s Sharks in this 4-3 Islanders victory on Tuesday night at UBS Arena.

It was, and not for the first time in a season just a couple of weeks old, a night in which Schaefer seemed to transcend everything else, in which he got an assist and a goal, in which the crowd chanted his name, in which the Islanders could feel completely secure that whatever comes from the next 76 games, they have a superstar in the making. 4

In recording his first point of the night, a secondary assist on Bo Horvat’s first-period power-play goal, Schaefer extended his points streak to six games, tying Marek Zidlicky’s record for defensemen starting a career and putting him one sh

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