The New York Islanders enter a game with a .500 points percentage. How novel!
They’re facing an Arizona Coyotes team that’s carrying a .326 points percentage. What could go wrong?
If the Islanders are in last place after 32 games, the Coyotes are in the lastiest of lasty places in the whole wide last world. But of course the desert dogs are coming in “hot” (by their 2021-22 standards), having beaten the Devils in Newark after dumping the equally hapless Canadiens in Montreal.
Don’t you love entering weekends with a back-to-back where your entire weekend mood rides on the fortunes of a sport where even the worst non-Coyote teams win or tie (before bonus point contests) 40% of the time?