Hockey is maddening and delightfully prone to short-term randomness so I’m not going to pretend the Islanders have no chance tonight as the Carolina Hurricanes visit.
But they’ve been so annoying lately that I will not get my hopes up and even if they do manage to end their four-game slide, I’m not going to act like anything has changed.
This team has disappointed Patrick Roy, who you get the sense is starting to wonder about the makeup of this roster he has professed to love. As Mike said on the latest Islanders Anxiety podcast, every Islanders fan is asking themselves how they let this team fool them.