On the 285-episodes-and-counting Islanders Anxiety podcast, Mike often refers to that periodic condition in Islanders fandom where something good that happened provides a brief stint of joy before immediately “waiting for the other shoe to drop.” It’s hard not to be in that state right now, with how they’ve gone up and down all season, yanked us around, and now surprisingly won four in a row of a busy week to jump up to third in the Metro.
(I don’t even want to get into the absolute dread of, if they make the playoffs, who their two most likely foes will be.