Mike and Dan recap a week of good and bad, as the Islanders stay in the thick of the Metro despite some characteristically bizarre games.
They start with Saturday night’s home game against Montreal in which the nine-round shootout wasn’t even the weirdest part. One person’s “great atmosphere” is another’s unsustainable, impossible parade of inexcusable bullshit, an Islanders’ trademark over the last several seasons. A 1-0 overtime loss to St. Louis on Thursday had its own elements of weirdness, as did a rousing win over a wounded Colorado team on Monday.
On the whole, the Islanders are where most people expected them to be.