It wasn’t all on the New York Islanders blue line’s deficiency, rather lack of team defense. But when you look to shore up the back end, it would behoove the team to create more consistency across pairings.
I wrote recently about how Tom Wilson on the top line with Alex Ovechkin was just the first point of proof that Barry Trotz likes to spread his talent out across lines. We saw last year where the Islanders had two scoring lines and two “other” lines.
This created a clear divide for when the Islanders would play only offense or when they would offer only defense (or, rather, no offense).