Last year, the New York Islanders were a team that got no respect. They finished with 103 points and the storyline all year from the experts was how they had no business being there rather than talking about how resilient they were after losing their captain.
The Isles took that “us against the world” mentality into the second round of the playoffs, and with a very similar team heading into this year with they have the exact same problem as last year.
The media again is sleeping on them. If you read my stuff you might be confused, because I’ve said this team has gotten slightly worse than it was last year.