An editorial confession: Every time the Islanders complete a short road trip* without so much as a shootout/OT loss, my first headline thought is “What a pointless trip.”
*Yes, technically it was a three-game trip with a win in D.C. to kick things off. But with them returning home in between D.C. and the weekend, this was its own mini-trip.
That, in turn, leads me to think of the classic WWII propaganda poster, “A Careless Word, A Needless Sinking,” which — not that I was there — always reads a tad hyperbolic in retrospect.