Good Morning, Islanders Country.
I didn’t let Saturday’s 6-3 win over the Winnipeg Jets fool me into becoming too emotionally invested in the outcome of Sunday’s game versus the New Jersey Devils. That was a promise I made to myself after the six-game losing streak evaporated all the false hope produced by the six-game winning streak.
However, the win on Saturday created some expectation that the Islanders were going to draw you back us back in again and did have an opportunity to keep things interesting with a win on home ice. To do so, they were going to have to win a back-to-back game for the first time this season. It was apparently too much to ask. Instead, we got a weak end to a Jekyll and Hyde weekend.
The Isles failed to generate much with back-to-back power plays in the first period and then took three consecutive minors, leading to a 5-on-3 power play for the Devils to start the second period. New Jersey predictably scored, and things got predictably worse from that point on. They fell to 0-6-3 in the backends of back-to-back games, a spot that was their calling card under Barry Trotz.
“We’re in our building. We need to play better than this, we all know that. The guys are smart, they know that. It’s our fans. Our fans deserve better than what we’ve been showing.” - Patrick Roy
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