A win is a win. You’ve heard it for eons in sports and, while cliché, it’s still darn true. An ugly win or a pretty win count for two points. A squeaked out win or a breeze of a win also still counts for two. The New York Islanders don’t earn many pretty or breezy victories, but, for the last season plus they’ve just been winning ugly quite often.
We all remember the predictions of futility last year. Even an optimistic fan like me expected an overachieving, hard-working team, but not quite a team who sat in first place in the Metro for a large portion of the season.