But what the fuck is going on?
The Islanders are quickly falling off track as the season comes to a close. It’s still going to require a collapse of epic proportions for them to miss the playoffs, but they way they’re playing, that’s not out of the question. If they make it, they are at serious risk of slipping out of home-ice advantage. And they’re backing in with their asses bare. Not going to get very far like that.
The Islanders are pretty terrible when they have a man advantage. This isn’t new. We’ve discussed it all season, which is kind of the point: how they have not figured out how to move around and change their position and stop waiting for the perfect shot at this stage of the season is absurd.