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The New York Islanders completed yet another successful season after reappearing in the Semi Final for the second year in a row. The Isles put up a great fight as they pushed the Tampa Bay Lightning to the brink of elimination but unfortunately fell to the champions in the decisive 7th game 1-0.
Fans were stunned by the Islanders performance in the playoffs. They were only five wins away from marching down Hempstead Turnpike in celebration of a fifth Stanley Cup. A lifelong Islanders fan known as “The Sign Guy”, Patrick Dowd, thinks that even though the Coliseum era is over, the memories will never die.