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Good Morning, Islanders Country.
We’re just days removed from the season ending in a somewhat stunning but somewhat predictable fashion on Friday night in Game 6 vs. Carolina.
The question everyone is attempting to answer is how the Islanders go from a “just make the playoffs and see what happens team” to a Metropolitan Division winning and Stanley Cup contending team.
Though, after last night, a night that saw the President’s Trophy winners and the defending Stanley Cup champions both lose Game 7’s on home ice, is the “get in and see what happens” strategy all that bad?
The gap to go from where they are to where we’d like them to be feels sizable.
There are no prospects quite ready to make the jump to the NHL and have an impact on the roster, and there aren’t too many veterans left that haven’t likely already reached their ceiling.
So where does the team go from here? It’s a question that starts with ownership and one major decision they need to make if they haven’t made it already.
Back in 2018, Jon Ledecky sat at a makeshift press conference table alongside GM Garth Snow and head coach Doug Weight and told fans, after a second consecutive season of missing the playoffs, that ownership had yet to make a decision on the fate of either of them.
It was a little bizarre but perfectly Islanders at the time.
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