Checking out the competition: It's not even really an island

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images For the first time since their 2019-20 season ended, the Flyers will faceoff with the New York Islanders. After pushing the series to seven games with back-to-back overtime wins, the Flyers were bounced with a lackluster game seven showing. This will undoubtedly be on the minds of the Flyers players.

The Islanders have begun the season relatively slowly, at just 3-4-0, and have lost three in a row after starting the season 3-1-0. The issue for them so far, much like was expected, is scoring goals. They have the fewest goals in the Eastern divis — ahem my bad, the *MassMutual East Division, at just 14. That’s tied for the third fewest in the entire NHL with the…