The New York Islanders started the season looking like a bottom feeder, holding the last place spot in the Eastern Conference up until January, when they fired then head coach Jack Capuano. Many people thought that the New York Islanders had no shot at the playoffs at that point, but that’s where they went wrong.
After Doug Weight was appointed as interim head coach, the New York Islanders played with a renewed sense of faith, and found themselves in a playoff spot just a month later. The orange and blue shocked the hockey world in a span of a month, playing like a completely new team under the guidance of Doug Weight, and it looked as if they were making the playoffs up until the end of the season.