How the Kids Make the Islanders Better

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesSometimes things are as obvious as they appear.

The latter half of February into this month has not been too kind to Long Island’s finest, as the team — even after Tuesday’s win against Ottawa — has struggled of late. The last eight games have seen the Isles winning just three, perhaps a residual effect of suboptimal lineups following the demotion of rookie forward Michael Dal Colle.

In last week’s trade deadline post-mortem, one of the key elements I posed was to recall either Dal Colle or Joshua Ho-Sang down the stretch. This idea was two-fold. First, to give players an opportunity to earn a playoff roster spot and second, to create a rotation in the…