As New York Islanders fans its nothing new to be dismissed by the hockey establishment. Just this past week two power rankings by writers from both TSN and Yahoo completely dismissed the Islanders success this season.
The Athletic and NHL.com’s Scott Cullen released a power ranking that had the New York Islanders ranked eleventh. Even though the Isles had a better record than five other teams, and had gone 6-2-2 in their last ten games leading up to that power ranking. Yahoo’s Ryan Lambert did the exact same thing, ranking the Isles eleventh for…reasons.
We’re used to that type of dismissiveness.