The Islanders’ season is just 20 video games outdated, however it already appears like issues are hitting a essential level.
Not as a result of they’re liable to falling out of the playoff race. On that entrance, they’re just about OK, although the state of affairs will not be superb — simply two factors out of a wild-card spot, and it’s so early that it’s unimaginable to be out of the race, anyway.
Fairly, the Islanders, 7-8-5 after 20 video games, are liable to their followers tuning out attributable to a mixture of mediocrity, predictability and the shortage of a transparent approach to repair it.
After a street journey on which the Islanders simply misplaced three straight video games, all within the third interval, all after having a lead, all within the context of getting repeatedly executed the very same factor since October 2023, the response from the fan base was neither outrage nor disgust. It was resignation combined with anger.
