Islanders News: Maybe things will be better in Chicago

Dude has given a lot for the team over the years.“Well It’s brave for us to stay

Even braver to go

Wherever she goes I go

Maybe things will be better in Chicago”

I totally get it if Tom Waits is not your thing, if “WTF is that voice?” or “You’re telling me that’s an instrument?” etc. is your reaction to any of his genre-bending music, but I’m obviously not that person. So anyway, when my YouTube suggestions swung between “14 Reasons You Hate The Islanders But Watch Anyway” and “‘Chicago’ (live on Letterman) by Tom Waits,” I had a serendipitous hockey-meets-musical-tastes moment.

The Islanders are on a terrible road trip where everything has gone wrong — subpar play, a backbreaking blown…