When reporters filed into the visitor’s dressing room after the Islanders win, Ilya Sorokin was deep in conversation with Sergei Naumovs.

Bo Horvat continued his torrid goal-scoring pace with two more – including one on the power play – to give him 11 in 15 games.

Bo Horvat scored on an odd-man rush midway through the first period and added a power-play goal late in the second Saturday night and the New York Islanders recorded a 5-0 victory over the New York Rangers,

Igor Shesterkin opened the season looking the part of the league’s highest-paid goaltender. For nearly three weeks, he’s largely been living on reputation. While the offense again gave the Rangers

The last time a losing side was so grateful to be defeated, it was at Bunker Hill. If not for the worst embarrassment the Islanders have suffered in recent memory, Matthew Schaefer would have made his Battle of New York debut on Saturday. Only it would have come for the Rangers, not the Islanders.

The New York Islanders take on the New York Ranges at the Madison Square Garden. Here are the projected/expected lineups

As if Matthew Schaefer couldn’t endear himself to Islanders fans even more than he already has, he goes out and does something else.

Horvat scored twice, and Sorokin shut out the Rangers. Islanders finally conquer MSG, snapping a long slump with a dominant 5-0 victory.