For those of us alarmed by the Islanders’ performance over the last seven weeks, I’ll intervene to at least concede this: Yes, they are an injury-ravaged team playing on a traveling back-to-back (arriving home at 3:30 a.m. sucks, I know from recent family “upper body” hospital visits) against a rested local team.
Doug Weight’s post-game press conference was...”forgiving” isn’t the right word, but maybe “empathetic.” He conceded that he’s “not looking for a violin here,” but the injuries and schedule are indeed a hardship in the world’s best league.
It probably “helps” his point that two of the Islanders’ best players made critical mistakes that led to goals last night.