The New York Islanders finished the 2015-16 season on a relative high note. They got that second round playoff birth, but their playoff run screeched to a halt when the Tampa Bay Lightning won four in a row to bounce the Islanders from the post-season.
But the disappointment wasn’t just the playoff performance. The Isles winning the Stanley Cup was a possibility, but a longshot. The disappointment was the regression that the team seemingly went through. The driver for this disappointment is based on the team’s possession analytics.
As we know possession is the new buzz word coming out of the analytics community and for good reason.