They weren’t going to win six games in a row every time. They can’t win every game. And they did fly back from the West Coast and had to stop in Buffalo before going home. But last night, the New York Islanders looked like they didn’t even get off the plane.
Indeed, it was probably a more important game to the Buffalo Sabres, and they showed a lot of desperation. It was an important game for the Islanders too, though. A loss would have been easier to stomach if they at least acted like it was an important game, or that they had a game at all.