Let me start this piece by being cordial and congratulatory towards Barry Trotz and the New York Islanders on a gritty, gutty playoff run to game six of the 2020 Eastern Conference Finals.
While the Isles’ style of play lacks any aesthetics whats-so-ever, and at times, resembles a traffic jam on the Long Island Expressway at 5pm on a Friday afternoon. The Isles success wad tangible and the results were undeniable.
Having gotten that small slice of congeniality out of the way, let’s get down to the business at hand.
New York Hockey Roots
Amazingly enough, the rivalry between the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders, which in the view of your’s truly is the fiercest in all of hockey.