Red-hot Islanders overcome Oilers and a car alarm

The lights turned off on regular-season hockey at Barclays Center late Saturday night.

With more results like this, the Islanders might just find their way back to Brooklyn this season, after all.

A day after their playoff plans were announced — the Coliseum for a potential first-round series and Barclays Center for any further action — the Islanders continued to make sure they come to fruition by picking up a 5-2 win over the Oilers in front of a packed house.

Despite trying to give it away late, handing the Oilers three power plays in the final 10:21, the Islanders sealed the win with a goal from Anders Lee with 2:16 left and an empty-netter from Brock Nelson less than a minute later. Edmonton converted on one of its late power plays to make it 3-2, but Robin Lehner locked down the other two to send the Islanders out on top.

“We found a way,” said Lee, who also dropped the gloves with Darnell Nurse before scoring for the first time in 12 games. “Two points is two points and good to close out here at the Barclays.”

The Islanders (35-17-6) matched their win total from last year and pushed their first-place Metropolitan Division lead over the idle Capitals to five points with 24 games remaining. They finished their Barclays Center schedule 12-6-2, with their final 12 home games of the regular season set to be played at the Coliseum.

The crowd of 14,812 marked the largest non-Rangers-game attendance of the season at home, and they were treated to a fitting sendoff when the alarm went off on the car that sits behind the boards. It beeped and flashed as play went on before finally turning off, the kind of home-ice advantage not found anywhere else in the league.

Mathew Barzal, Valtteri Filppula and Ryan Pulock all scored for the Islanders, with Devon Toews and Josh Bailey each adding two assists, as they built up a 3-1 lead early in the third period before Lehner (34 saves) made sure their Brooklyn slate ended on a high note.

If they get back here this season, they now know it will be in the second round of the playoffs. Friday’s announcement was seen as a compromise between the team and the league, with the heart of the fan base located on Long Island and closer to the smaller-capacity Coliseum while the Barclays Center offers the chance for bigger profits.

“I think it’s important to the fans, important to the atmosphere and enthusiasm that’s been created. I think it’s the right decision,” president of hockey operations and general manager Lou Lamoriello said before the game. “Now what we can do is just focus on what we have to do, and that is we have to get in the playoffs before we can activate any type of a schedule.

“In no way are we assuming anything.”

Before going back there for half of their games this season, the Islanders thought they had played their last game at the Coliseum when they fell to the Capitals in a seven-game first-round series in 2015.

“It’s nice to have any time there,” Cal Clutterbuck said. “We really enjoy playing in that building. It has kind of a special feeling to it, and in the playoffs, that place really comes alive. We saw it the last time we played Washington there a couple years ago. So big advantage for us to even have just the first round there.”

But the Islanders have won in the postseason at Barclays Center, too, in 2016 when they beat the Panthers in the first round and sold out all five games in the arena by the time they lost to the Lightning in the second round.

“That building was electric as well,” Clutterbuck said. “So different feelings, obviously two completely different buildings, but we feel pretty comfortable playing in both.”