(Hey, folks. I’m gonna try this for a little while and see how it goes. Every Monday, we’ll look back at the last week of Islanders games and what’s on tap for the week ahead. It’ll be mostly observational stuff but with plenty of diversions into nonsense in a format that will steal from at least a half dozen other features around the internet. Enjoy.)
A short week leads to packed one that ends in a back-to-back. I’ll be saying this a lot but the Islanders can’t avoid a ton of let downs and they’ve had one in each of the first two weeks of the season.