The Islanders didn’t really show up in Anaheim Sunday night. Marcus Hogberg was back, so that was nice, and his efforts kept it close before the dam finally broke on the way to a 4-1 Ducks win.
But overall, it was a disappointing, absent effort from a team supposedly chasing a playoff position, losing handily to a team that is well out of the playoff hunt but just a few points behind the Isles in the opposite conference.
It wasn’t an effort worth recapping in any detail. So I’ll just lean on one of many appropriate comments from the game thread:
Even after this miserable first 4/5 of this season, the Isles are going to no-show for a game where they could jump past three teams and position themselves to actually fight for WC2.