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In the latest episode of “The Red Line,” co-hosts Phil Farber (@PhilzFacts) and David Tuchman (@TuckOnSports) reflect on a season of ups and downs and talk about potential next steps for the franchise.
After recapping what went wrong in the closer-than-it-appeared series against Carolina, the boys talk about the cost of the Isles’ goaltending moving forward, Noah Dobson’s next contract, and how the team can get better.
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Seeing Red
J Fresh Hockey puts out the team’s advanced analytics card following their elimination. The chart, which has a lot of red, showing the Islanders are in the bottom third of a lot of categories, was accompanied by this: “Goodbye to the New York Islanders, a not very good team with some solid net-front guys and two very good goalies that got a solid new coach bump and then ran into a less-than-ideal matchup”
📚 SOUND SMART: Per Eric Hornick in The Skinny, the Isles are 175-149 in 324 all-time playoff games. They are 98-56 at home (88-44 at the Coliseum, 2-5 at Barclays, 5-2 in Toronto, 1-2 in Edmonton, and 2-3 at UBS Arena) and 77-93 on the road. In this year's playoffs, the Isles are 1-1 at home and 0-3 on the road.
🎥 ISLES REWIND: On May 3, 1983, Mike Bossy scored the fourth of his five career postseason hat tricks in the New York Islanders’ 8-3 win over the Boston Bruins in Game 4 of the Wales Conference Final. After losing Game 5, the Islanders returned home and scored eight goals to close out the series in six games and advance to their fourth straight Stanley Cup Final.
"We played an excellent game," said Isles goaltender Billy Smith. "I would think anybody could see that. I have no idea how Boston played. You want to know that, ask them. All I know is how we played."
🎧 Stefen Rosner from The Hockey News and NHL.com joins the "The Double Chili Podcast. “Stefen Rosner from The Hockey News and NHL.com joins the "The Double Chili Islanders Podcast" with Peter Schwartz. Stefen and Peter discuss the Islanders season coming to an end and what lies ahead.”
🔗 Three Burning Questions As Islanders Offseason Begins by Stefen Rosner, The Hockey News “As we wait for the official conclusion of the New York Islanders season, with exit interviews coming at some point over the next few days, there are a lot of questions surrounding the path the organization will take this summer.”
🔗 Report: NY Islanders GM Lou Lamoriello to address the media on Friday via Eyes on Isles “According to Newsday beat writer Andrew Gross, Lamoriello and head coach Patrick Roy are expected to speak with the media on Friday after meeting with the players. The early media availability would be a strong indication that the 81-year-old will be back next season, which would be his seventh with the franchise.”
And we leave you with this…the plays of the year!
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