More will be expected of the Islanders next season.
That’s what finishing second in the Metropolitan Division after a 23-point improvement over the previous season and advancing to the second round of the NHL playoffs does.
“There’s a certain amount of expectation that’s going to be bestowed on us that wasn’t bestowed on us this year,” right wing Cal Clutterbuck said Monday as the Islanders conducted their exit interviews at East Meadow. “That’s the tough thing, coming back and recreating something. The positive to that is there was nothing fluky to this year. I don’t know if there was much luck involved in all of that.