Fans of the Islanders understandably will spend Sunday thinking deep playoff thoughts.
What team will they face, and where? (See you soon, Sidney Crosby?) Which goaltender will start? How far can they go? It says here they could go far indeed, no April foolin.’
All of that is as it should be. But first, let us take a moment before March ends and the regular season fades into memory to appreciate what the Islanders have done thus far.
The capper came on Saturday night at NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum, where they secured a berth in the Stanley Cup tournament with a 5-1 rout of the overmatched Sabres.