It's Not How You Start, It's How You Finish...
Out of the gate, the Islanders looked like a team fighting to stay in the playoff picture.
Pumping a handful of chances onto Pyotr Kochetkov, it felt like the Canes may be in danger of surrendering the game's first goal.
Instead, Carolina's penalty kill turned the tide with a 24th consecutive successful penalty kill, and they took over from there.
After surviving a Martin Necas infraction, Seth Jarvis located a rebound in front of Ilya Sorokin's net and put it back between his legs to break open the contest's scoring.
Serving as the first of what would be a quick trio of goals for the group, the team didn't have to wait much longer for a second.
2:13 later, it was Jarvis again.
This time it was a beautiful passing connection between the young winger and newcomer Jake Guentzel, after a gorgeous stretch pass from Jaccob Slavin.
The 24th and 25th goals of the season for the 2020 first-round pick had the visitors in a good position after playing on their heels for the first 10 minutes of the night.
But before they could take their two-goal gap back to the locker room, Necas chipped in with a power play goal.
Coming with just 1.3 seconds to go in the frame, it cemented Rod Brind'Amour's group in complete control at the break.