DeAngelo has been a member of the Islanders for a week now, four games, and he hasn’t been on the ice for a loss. He's played 25:33 minutes per game, quarterbacking the top power play and even getting some penalty kill minutes under his belt, too.

It took mere seconds into his debut with the Islanders for the importance of having DeAngelo on the right side of the blue line to become all the more important, when Ryan Pulock went down and later joined Noah Dobson on injured reserve .