Both winning and losing can become habitual. I get wanting your players to be rested, but they've been struggling offensively for quite some time now. I get nervous about them taking the 'Don't worry, we'll turn it on when the playoffs start." stance.
It isn't always that automatic
- keaner17

Well that’s all we got now. I guess it’s time to throw my prediction out the window

That fire in GC yesterday was right where a lot of the Isles families live. Mayfield is a couple of houses away, Lee and Trotz less then a block away. A lot of those guys live in that area... I'm sure it rattled them before this game.

https://www.nbcnewyork.co...sland-house-fire/3041017/

That fire in GC yesterday was right where a lot of the Isles families live. Mayfield is a couple of houses away, Lee and Trotz less then a block away. A lot of those guys live in that area... I'm sure it rattled them before this game.

https://www.nbcnewyork.co...sland-house-fire/3041017/
- niteislander

Yea they probably had premonitions of that fire since the deadline too

Well that’s all we got now. I guess it’s time to throw my prediction out the window
- Cptmjl

At this point I'll be happy if they split the last two games.

At this point I'll be happy if they split the last two games.
- JimmyP

At this point I’m just looking for some kind of continuity or positivity from any of the lines before the playoffs. I have lowered my demands and expectations

At this point I’m just looking for some kind of continuity or positivity from any of the lines before the playoffs. I have lowered my demands and expectations
- Cptmjl

I'm going to pull the fire alarm in the opponent's hotel the night before the games

I'm going to pull the fire alarm in the opponent's hotel the night before the games
- Upstate_isles

A man with a plan!

Trotz: "We're best when we know who we are. Some guys have gotten away from who they are."

They don't even know what line they're playing on at this point.

I'm going to pull the fire alarm in the opponent's hotel the night before the games
- Upstate_isles

I am still positive about the playoffs. I have no idea why but I am. Trying to stay in that mind set...

Trotz: "We're best when we know who we are. Some guys have gotten away from who they are."

They don't even know what line they're playing on at this point.
- keaner17

Well can’t really blame them for that

Since Palmieri and Zajac have 2 combined goals in 27 combined games.. maybe we should give Bellows another shot.. no?

Since Palmieri and Zajac have 2 combined goals in 27 combined games.. maybe we should give Bellows another shot.. no?
- niteislander

Totally agree. 4th place is a virtual lock at this point. http://playoffstatus.com/nhl/eaststandings.html

Trotz: "We're best when we know who we are. Some guys have gotten away from who they are."

They don't even know what line they're playing on at this point.
- keaner17

I am still positive about the playoffs. I have no idea why but I am. Trying to stay in that mind set...
- Cptmjl

Yup, based on the past 2 years of happy surprises, I am cautiously optimistic. However, those years we had Anders Lee playing, so I am tempering my enthusiasm.

Since Palmieri and Zajac have 2 combined goals in 27 combined games.. maybe we should give Bellows another shot.. no?
- niteislander

That trade is looking more and more like a disaster. Of course it's all really contingent on the playoff result. Had Anders been healthy, the addition of Palmieri would have been a great push (though undoable cap-wise). With Anders gone, it had a bandaid on a bullet wound kinda feel.
Meanwhile Hall has 12 points since he joined the Bruins.

That trade is looking more and more like a disaster. Of course it's all really contingent on the playoff result. Had Anders been healthy, the addition of Palmieri would have been a great push (though undoable cap-wise). With Anders gone, it had a bandaid on a bullet wound kinda feel.
Meanwhile Hall has 12 points since he joined the Bruins.
- keaner17

Yep beginning to think I was wrong and I mean very wrong about Palmieri. I wanted him here more then anyone else. I look at our first line with the rotation of sub par wingers and then look at Hall in Boston or Carter in Pittsburgh, Mantha in Washington and realize we’re in a far worse position since the trade deadline. It’s not palmieri’s fault of course but his individual performance is from bad to invisible. That’s not what I was expecting. He has not been good.

Mayfield caught puck watching
- keaner17

I believe that play also started with Mayfield failing to clear the zone. I think we'll be glad to have him when our probable first-round series with the Caps turns into trench warfare, but man, he's been really bad lately.

Yep beginning to think I was wrong and I mean very wrong about Palmieri. I wanted him here more then anyone else. I look at our first line with the rotation of sub par wingers and then look at Hall in Boston or Carter in Pittsburgh, Mantha in Washington and realize we’re in a far worse position since the trade deadline. It’s not palmieri’s fault of course but his individual performance is from bad to invisible. That’s not what I was expecting. He has not been good.
- Cptmjl

Yeah, for an offensively challenged team full of third liners, adding a third liner may not have been our best course of action

I believe that play also started with Mayfield failing to clear the zone. I think we'll be glad to have him when our probable first-round series with the Caps turns into trench warfare, but man, he's been really bad lately.
- UIF

I'll be honest, his presence in a series like that worries me too. All of those mistakes he's been routinely making this year, between bad penalties, turnovers and missed assignments will be backbreakers in a series against Washington or Pittsburgh.
Of course if he wants to break his Stick Over Tom Wilsons collarbone again I'm all for it.

Soundtigers are announcing something tomorrow morning. May be a name change and maybe a move to the Coliseum. The latter would actually be kinda awesome.

Soundtigers are announcing something tomorrow morning. May be a name change and maybe a move to the Coliseum. The latter would actually be kinda awesome.
- eichiefs9

Hmmmm..... Introducing the "Long Island Soundtigers"

Has a nice ring to it.

Soundtigers are announcing something tomorrow morning. May be a name change and maybe a move to the Coliseum. The latter would actually be kinda awesome.
- eichiefs9

That would be nice.

I am still positive about the playoffs. I have no idea why but I am. Trying to stay in that mind set...
- Cptmjl

I'm not writing them off but I'm expecting a first round exit. They are just flat out bad right now. I hope I'm wrong.

Yeah, for an offensively challenged team full of third liners, adding a third liner may not have been our best course of action
- keaner17

I'm not writing them off but I'm expecting a first round exit. They are just flat out bad right now. I hope I'm wrong.
- JimmyP

Yeah they are and it’s completely sensible thinking they’ll be out in the first round the way they look now. I just think they’ll snap out of it when they need to which I know isn’t exactly realistic.