The New York Islanders and Rangers are two balls at opposite ends of a rope that never want to travel in the same direction at the same time.
After the Islanders Trotzian surge to conference finals the past two seasons, they’ve crashed and missed the playoffs for the first time since Lou Lamoriello took over and made his best hire.
So of course that means everything has gone right for their rivals, who are not only headed to the NHL pla[REDACTED] but are actually in the hunt for a division ti[REDACTED]. All the Isles can do is kind of dent that roll a little.