Professional athletes do not get to be professional athletes by being too psychologically fragile to move past bad losses — or so the Islanders hope as they approach Game 4 of their second-round playoff series against the Lightning on Friday night.
Not to worry, said Matt Martin, one of the team’s emotional leaders and most popular players. That 5-4 overtime loss in Game 3 Tuesday, in which the Islanders lost three separate leads, one of them in the final minute of regulation?
Ancient history.
“You have to be able to let things go, not only wins and losses, but we live in a social media world now,” Martin said after the morning skate at Barclays Center.