Doug Weight knows the Islanders are better than this, better than 5-9-2 since the opening faceoff of December, better than their current season-high three-game skid. After all, they closed November at 15-7-2.
So the Isles coach bemoaned his players’ lack of fierceness after Tuesday night’s 5-1 loss to Boston at Barclays Center and called for an attitude adjustment in no uncertain terms after Wednesday’s practice. The Isles play at Philadelphia Thursday night, which begins an important stretch of three Metropolitan Division games in four days before their mandatory five-day break.
“We have a good team, and I just told the guys that we have a good team,” Weight said at Northwell Health Ice Center.