In response to an earlier article contesting that the New York Islanders recent problems are due to lack of talent, here’s a counter-argument that this is not a lack of talent but a lack of management of talent.
With better coaching – and let me be clear, this is a far superior coaching staff – this should be a team that has closed the goal differential gap to be better than last year.
And so far they have if you look at all 30 games. If you look deeper and break the season into the first 15 and the last 15, it tells a more foreboding story for the remaining 52 games.