With the Islanders on their bye week, we’ll take a few days here to detail some of the positives, negatives and what’s to come after the team reassembles Friday to prepare for the last 39 games.
First, the good stuff:
Josh Bailey
If Bailey were a stud forward who’d been born behind the Iron Curtain in the 1960s or 1970s and didn’t make it to the NHL until his mid-20s, that might explain the huge jump in production for a 28-year-old NHLer.
In 2017-18 and for a guy already a decade into his NHL career, it’s baffling.