Islanders start new year with embarrassing loss to Mammoth

Maybe this was payback from the hockey gods for Tuesday night, when the Islanders were nowhere near good enough in beating the Blackhawks.

Or maybe the Islanders just need to take a good, hard look at things right now, given it’s been three weeks since they scored three or more goals in a game.

On Thursday, they coughed up a hat trick to Dylan Guenther, looked brutal on the power play and couldn’t sustain momentum at five-on-five in an embarrassing 7-2 loss to the Mammoth.