Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Knowing what your enemies are doing is invaluable when trying to assess the lay of the land. For the New York Islanders, that’s keeping tabs on the other seven teams in the Metropolitan Division.
Over the next few days, we’ll cover each of our Metropolitan division rivals one-by-one. Today we start with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Columbus Blue Jackets Roster Moves (To-Date):
The Blue Jackets were a terrible team last season. Much was expected from them to start the season but we all know how a .818 save percentage in the first five starts from former Vezina winner Sergei Bobrovsky got their coach fired and eventually sunk any hopes of the Jackets making the post-season for a second straight season.