That’s more like it.

Three shutouts in six games was the stat that told everything about the Islanders, the stat they were carrying around like a backpack going into Newark on Friday to face the upstart Devils and the stat it took them all of 83 seconds to make sure would not become four in seven.

The early story of this season is shaping up to be that if the Islanders can put the puck in the net, they win.

They have at least a point in every game in which they haven’t been shut out, and they picked up two more on Friday when Bo Horvat’s overtime winner vaulted them to a 4-3 win over the Devils, the Islanders bouncing right back after giving up the tying goal late in regulation.

“They were all pissed off that we gave up that goal,” coach Patrick Roy said. “But to me — [it shows] character.”

The Islanders led 3-2 entering the final 20 minutes after Kyle Palmieri tipped in Alexander Romanov’s one-timer at 11:28 of the second, but the hostilities on either side had risen after a Kurtis MacDermid open-ice hit took off Romanov’s helmet earlier on in the period.

The Islanders have lost leads late on Prudential Center ice before.

This was by no means assured, particularly as their defensive structure showed some cracks in the second, with Curtis Lazar having tied the game at two for New Jersey and Ilya Sorokin having prevented it from being tied at three with stops on Dawson Mercer and Jack Hughes following reckless Islander giveaways.

This had all the makings of the kind of hang-on-tight third period the Islanders have played too often the last couple seasons — most of them ending poorly — and that’s just what it was.

The Devils obliged with a five-on-six goal with 1:29 to go, as Jesper Bratt banged the puck in after Noah Dobson lost it off his stick in the low slot.

That tied the game at three and gave everyone flashbacks from last season, when the Islanders lost the lead in a similar spot, then lost the game before regulation ended.

In that all-too-familiar spot, though, the Islanders took a left turn.

They had yet to get a winner in three tries at three-on-three overtime this season, needing a shootout to beat Montreal on Saturday.

This time, Horvat delivered with a one-timer off Mat Barzal’s feed to end it just over a minute into the extra period.

“Feels so good,” Horvat said. “I think we’ve been playing really good hockey. It’s just a matter of it going in for us. It was a heck of a play by him to get that over to me.”

Much as the Islanders had said again and again they liked their chances, it was pretty telling that the two goals they scored in the first period came on the sort of chances they weren’t getting before Friday: a tip and a rebound, both of which came after defensemen shot freely from high in the zone.

Nelson’s opener 1:23 into the game happened on a tip from Adam Pelech at the left point. Anders Lee’s power-play goal came on a rebound after Noah Dobson let loose from the blue line — a chance that initially looked like it would come to nothing as the power play wound down.

In between, a poorly executed breakout cost them as Nico Hischier was there to one-time Bratt’s feed into the back of the net to make it 1-1. But the lesson from those first 20 minutes still felt like an important one.

It ended up extending over all 60.

The Islanders can be a pretty good team when they aren’t searching for goals as if at a lost and found.

“Obviously we had more traffic there,” Ryan Pulock told The Post. “Two of our goals were tip-ins. Good netfront, good shots by the D-man getting them through and you get rewarded that way. I think we’re continuing to get some chances other ways, but I thought tonight we had guys going to the net pretty hard.”

It wasn’t a perfect game, and in particular it wasn’t a perfect third period. But if getting to the net is the lesson learned, it will continue bearing fruit.

“Tonight we scored goals that we probably have not scored the last few games because of it,” Roy said. “Nellie being up high for that high tip on the first goal, Palmsy [doing the same]. I think this is very good for us. Very positive.”