If failure is the best teacher, then the Islanders will be icing a stable of geniuses on defense this season. No major personnel changes have been made to the worst defensive team the NHL has seen in over a decade and it’s likely thee will enter the season with mostly the same roster.
So the question of whether the Islanders can improve in their own end basically amounts to whether the same group of players can play better than they did last year.
So, can they?
Yes, they can and they will.