Not less than it’s not COVID-19.
The Islanders now can add the climate to the lengthy listing of points which have disrupted their 2021-22 season.
The sport scheduled for Saturday in opposition to the Kraken was postponed late Friday because of the snowstorm set to hit the New York metro space. The sport, initially set for two p.m., would have been Jordan Eberle’s return to Lengthy Island and would have been an opportunity for the Islanders to get again on monitor following a demoralizing loss to the Kings on Thursday evening.
Lengthy Island Railroad and Metro North service is anticipated to be suspended and roads may very well be dangerous, with snowfall anticipated all through the day on Saturday.
The NHL introduced the sport in opposition to Seattle shall be rescheduled for Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.
That shortens the Islanders’ All-Star break by a day, and means they'll play a back-to-back earlier than the hiatus, with a recreation in opposition to the Senators at UBS Enviornment on Tuesday evening. Their recreation on Sunday in opposition to the Wild remains to be on the schedule.
The three-2 loss to the Kings on Thursday dropped the Islanders again to .500, and was one other disappointing efficiency in opposition to a playoff workforce. Throughout the first half of the season, nearly nothing has gone proper for the Islanders.
COVID-19 outbreaks, each among the many Islanders and throughout the league, had been the trigger for suspending a number of November and December video games. That resulted within the Islanders enjoying simply twice in over three weeks at one level.
On the ice, the product has been disappointing, as a workforce that made the Stanley Cup semifinals in every of the final two seasons has discovered itself exterior of the playoff image, with its window to get again in beginning to slam shut.
“We’re in a gap,” Scott Mayfield mentioned Thursday evening. “I feel .500 was a benchmark that we checked out. We had been in a position to get there. However yeah, it’s been robust. It’s simply been forwards and backwards. Get one recreation forward after which proper again to it.”
The Islanders’ struggles currently have come in opposition to playoff groups such because the Kings. The Wild, the Islanders’ opponent on Sunday, maintain a wild-card spot within the Western Convention. The Islanders’ offense continues to be a problem, and a recreation in opposition to the Kraken — whose goaltending has been nothing in need of shambolic all yr — might have been an opportunity to get issues proper.
As an alternative, it must wait.
“Our concern is successful hockey video games and you bought to attain to try this,” Anders Lee mentioned Thursday. “Tonight we did generate some offense, it didn’t go on the web. It will possibly really feel worse than it was. Anytime you lose, it doesn’t really feel good.”
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