The Ottawa Senators won their third straight game as they beat the New York Islanders by a score of 2-0 on Long Island.

After starting the new year with a four-game losing streak, the Ottawa Senators have rebounded with three wins in a row. They beat the New York Islanders 2-0 on Tuesday night at UBS Arena. 22-year-old rookie Leevi Merilainen continues to be the hot hand for the Sens, making 23 saves for the shutout, Ottawa's sixth of the season, all on the road.

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The New York Islanders hosted the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night to wrap up their season series. The game was uneventful as both defenses stepped up and aside from an Adam Gaudette goal in the second period and an empty-net goal,

The first three-game winning streak of the season for the New York Islanders gave them a chance to keep their playoff hopes alive during their longest homestand of the campaign.

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BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders are looking to prolong a three-game win streak with a victory over the Ottawa Senators. New York is 17-18-7 overall and 7-9-2 at home. The Islanders have a 16-3-4 record when scoring three or more goals.

Roy was asked about his team's hunger level. If the Buffalo Sabres defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday, the Islanders could wake up Saturday morning dead last in the Eastern Conference.

After an uninspiring 2-0 loss two nights earlier to the Ottawa Senators where head Patrick Roy implored his team to show more hunger and urgency, the New York Islanders could not find it consistently enough in Thursday night’s 5-3 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers.

A victory against the Bruins is paramount because the Senators can move into the final wild-card spot in the East with a win over Boston and begin to close the gap with the rest of the division. That’s why it makes sense for the club to stick with Merilainen.

Not long after media posted on social media that Sebrango would play because of a facial injury suffered by top defenceman Thomas Chabot in Tuesday’s 2-0 win over the New York Islanders, his mother received a call from her son that she may want to make her way to Ottawa.