With a banged-up fourth line, Barry Trotz tried to get the New York Islanders to play a different style. With Casey Cizikas, Matt Martin, and Cal Clutterbuck out of the lineup at different points of the year, Barry wanted his team to play a more offensive style of play.
Maybe allowing this team to play a little less defense and letting the offense fly a bit it the team could win some games. Unfortunately, that's not what happened.
The Islanders offense got off the ground, but it didn't fly.