After being Just An Average Team against the league-leading Boston Bruins last night, leading to a very predictable result, the New York Islanders will hit the ice again tonight in Buffalo, when they’ll seek to re-stoke the fire and fragile hopes of an increasingly exasperated fanbase.
I’m not even mad at the players at this point; they’re doing what they’re capable of doing, which based on roster construction and coaching will include dry spells like this. Even during their healthiest and best points of the season, they needed Ilya Sorokin to provide top-flight goaltending.