There are two local pro teams currently in the playoffs, and one of them features among the most star-studded lineups in the history of New York sports.
The Islanders are the other one.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
What they are is a balanced team full of established veterans, headlined by an enigmatic hockey artiste in Mathew Barzal and led by two of the most successful hockey bosses of all time in Lou Lamoriello and Barry Trotz.
That is what makes their current run of three consecutive years with a least one playoff round victory — their first such streak since the early 1980s — extra-impressive.