Regardless of what happened (or didn’t happen, for that matter) at the trade deadline, the Islanders’ fate will still—even without Matt Duchene or Gabriel Landeskog—be determined by the team’s nine-game road trip.
As Yogi Berra famously coined, ‘It ain’t over ’til it’s over.’
The Isles’ recent run—since head coach Doug Weight took over the reigns, the team has catapulted from last in the conference to a mere point out of the final wild card spot—has taken the backseat as fans have bickered about Garth Snow’s no-show at the deadline (despite a flurry of rumors, the general manager didn’t make any trades).