What’s the point, really? The New York Islanders seem incapable of playing a 60 minute game, the defense stinks, the forwards stink...
It was nice to get Adam Pelech and Kyle Palmieri back, and to see Samuel Bolduc make his NHL debut, but the team’s issues go beyond any one player. It’s the rotating cast of characters on Barzal’s line, it’s minimal production out of allegedly top six players Anthony Beauvillier and Josh Bailey. It’s the impotent power play, which is hovering around a hard to believe 5%...
It’s a joke, and there’s no quick fix coming.