![]() ![]() NYI PP is 1-for-12 this…- Stefen Rosner April 23, 2023 I'm not saying #Canes HC Rod Brind'Amour told his team to take penalties to get #Isles away from their five-on-five game as much as possible.īut I'd think the message to his players is if you have to take a penalty, do it without hesitation. In the playoffs, it often comes down to special teams, and the Islanders are getting destroyed in that department.Win that and come back to UBS Arena for Game 6, and we’ll go from there.Īnd, uh, Islanders in 7, I guess. Who knows? Right now, we’ve got Game 5 on Tuesday in Raleigh. We have a whole offseason for parsing the roster and the future of this team. But I don’t want to get too ahead of myself. ![]() We do this to ourselves, and this is how it ends basically every year. At the end of the day, they’re getting outplayed by a severely shorthanded Canes squad and their inferior goaltender, and nothing they do has been able to change that. Pulock and Kyle Palmieri might be the only ones who I can say definitively showed up, and neither of them was very good yesterday. Making matters worse, some of their most important players have been somewhere between mediocre and dreadful, too.įrankly, I could write all day about the various players who got us here and who have barely been seen this postseason. After Ryan Pulock’s major-downgraded-to-minor, the Islanders got away from their game and stopped hitting, except when Matt Martin crushed Mackenzie MacEachern for no reason at the end of the first, setting up the power play that basically sealed it early in the second. The officiating, again, was dreadful, but at some point, they have to adapt to it and overcome it. They started off well: They limited Carolina almost entirely at five-on-five in the first. Given the circumstances, what the Islanders displayed yesterday in Game 4 was pretty gross. But hey, there’s always a chance, right? I guess there is. And sure, two of them will be in Raleigh, where the Islanders only know how to win in October. I mean, sure, the New York Islanders have to win all three games against the Carolina Hurricanes, who might as well be the Carolina Boogeymen for the Islanders. At least they made the playoffs and didn’t get swept nor gentlemen’s swept, I guess.Īlright, it’s not over yet, I guess. ![]()
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