Gross: The reality is, the Islanders just aren’t a very good team
December 30, 2024
Gross: The reality is, the Islanders just aren’t a very good team
6 comments
Fax
Every sane fan has none this for the past few seasons.
>And if 2024, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, should show anything to Islanders ownership or management – because, clearly, the signs were seemingly overlooked in 2022 and 2023 – it’s that the Islanders are not who they think they are. Unless or until they can prove otherwise, they are not a serious Stanley Cup contender.
>If the Eastern Conference was stronger, they wouldn’t even be a fringe playoff contender.
>So far, Roy has proven to be no more the answer than predecessor Lane Lambert and that’s not a knock on either coach. The Islanders are not inconsistent because of schemes. They’re not the worst in the NHL on both the power play and penalty kill because of Xs and Os.
>The constant has been the roster.
>The Islanders are 14-16-7 and only the dysfunctional, nose-diving Rangers are keeping them out of last place in the Metropolitan Division. They enter the final match of this calendar year 37-33-14 in 2024, which would be a non-playoff worthy 88 points in an 84-game season (coming, soon, to the NHL).
>Only a 10-2-3 run to end last season earned them a playoff berth and subsequent five-game, first-round elimination. Take those 15 games away and the Islanders are a very meh 27-31-11 in 2024.
Don’t need an article to back that up.
Yep. We are running out of places to point fingers. I think it’s reasonable to want to change the special teams coach, and to a lesser extent the GM, but the bottom line is this constructed roster does not work as advertised. They are worse than the sum of their parts, somehow.
The sooner we move and get through a rebuild the better. The on ice product as it is right now is not worth digging the team any deeper in the hole than it already is.
6 comments
Fax
Every sane fan has none this for the past few seasons.
>And if 2024, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, should show anything to Islanders ownership or management – because, clearly, the signs were seemingly overlooked in 2022 and 2023 – it’s that the Islanders are not who they think they are. Unless or until they can prove otherwise, they are not a serious Stanley Cup contender.
>If the Eastern Conference was stronger, they wouldn’t even be a fringe playoff contender.
>So far, Roy has proven to be no more the answer than predecessor Lane Lambert and that’s not a knock on either coach. The Islanders are not inconsistent because of schemes. They’re not the worst in the NHL on both the power play and penalty kill because of Xs and Os.
>The constant has been the roster.
>The Islanders are 14-16-7 and only the dysfunctional, nose-diving Rangers are keeping them out of last place in the Metropolitan Division. They enter the final match of this calendar year 37-33-14 in 2024, which would be a non-playoff worthy 88 points in an 84-game season (coming, soon, to the NHL).
>Only a 10-2-3 run to end last season earned them a playoff berth and subsequent five-game, first-round elimination. Take those 15 games away and the Islanders are a very meh 27-31-11 in 2024.
Don’t need an article to back that up.
Yep. We are running out of places to point fingers. I think it’s reasonable to want to change the special teams coach, and to a lesser extent the GM, but the bottom line is this constructed roster does not work as advertised. They are worse than the sum of their parts, somehow.
The sooner we move and get through a rebuild the better. The on ice product as it is right now is not worth digging the team any deeper in the hole than it already is.
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