What Ryan Pulock did for Islanders is in all-time great company

Sometimes, you wonder how we survived a world before YouTube, before highlights on demand, before video streaming.

In, say, 1950 — or even 2000 — if you happened to see what Ryan Pulock did live Saturday night, then you were lucky. You’d get some replays. You’d marvel at how the Islanders defenseman crawled along the goal line in the final second — literally, with :01 left in regulation — and managed to set aside a brilliant spin-o-rama shot from Tampa’s Ryan McDonagh after McDonagh’s last-ditch shot slithered past Isles goalie Semyon Varlamov. If you weren’t watching? If you were watching Nets-Bucks Game 7, or “In the Heights” on HBO Max, or if you were at a family barbecue … well, you could read about it. You could hear about it secondhand. Maybe you’d happen to be watching “SportsCenter” when the replay came on there. Dark Ages stuff, right there.