#NYI #isles Bottom line 14 over, gotta push to 15-17-20, last year they kept winning 2/3-3/4 some overtime games, but that's how they built up record to where they got where they needed to be, this has been more dominating on paper with less dominating games.
— New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 13, 2019
Not a lot to be written since last entry. The hope is this team finds the game they played for long stretches of last season, where the other team could not match the NYI hard-working effort. Feels like most of this season they have largely been outworked, despite the improved record.
Love record despite mostly holding pace in this division. Last Dec NY went to Toronto, and at the time felt Leafs had their spot locked up at fifteen over, and would play out the string easily, it did not work out that way as they slid back.
For New York we need that team from last season that won 2/3, 3/4 which just kept methodically pushing up toward 12-15-20 over mark that should be good enough, but winning ugly can't be an 82 game formula. We have to see the team that went to Toronto, and just had an easy night, which this year's version has rarely shown.
The good news is despite the record maybe we see this team finally start clicking, as in Eberle, Lee, Bailey, hitting their numbers, Cizikas getting on a run to another twenty goals. Dal Colle finally producing, those are not unrealistic expectations. This year has been a different kind of winning, one where the coach has largely not been satisfied.
I do think they can be better, but it's not there yet.
Notables, we'll know when we know with Sorokin, my guess is he stays in KHL, if not Greiss likely is finished here. Don't expect to see Martin back if Johnston produces with two more years on his deal.
Don't see the mix working in Bridgeport, or a lot of statistical development, along with a ton of goals against for a team injured, but with plenty of depth.
As for Dolan's Belmont Arena, when things are going their way, their media will keep things dead quiet. It's not 2011, 2013 where they created a circus to get their way. Cuomo gave Dolan his Msg2, with/without NYI it's happening, we have always been the pawns to only get the shovel in ground, when 8,000 show by the second game, it will be a matter of when before these owners put the team up for sale, the financial losses with such awful Nassau support speaks for itself, along with the usual crew that just don't go to games.
