The New York Islanders weren’t ready to play Thursday night at home against the Seattle Kraken and fell 5-2 in a game that was not as close as the final score. We have our key takeaways from the game and discuss the poor play of the team, the disappointing performance by Pierre Engvall when he had a big chance to prove himself and what needs to happen with this team going forward.
We also have some good news on Brock Nelson and Adam Pelech and we preview this weekend’s games against the Carolina Hurricanes and Ottawa Senators.
All this and more on today’s Locked On Islanders Podcast with Gil Martin.
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6 Comments
D-O-N-E
This abysmal team is entirely on Lou. All he did in the off season was add Tsyplakov & Duclair (good moves but not enough) and and a new assistant coach who can't save the PK. Speaking of special teams, why the hell is MacLean still behind the bench? Our PP is atrocious! Lou's given out bad contracts to the wrong players who are consistently inconsistent except for the goaltending. He needs to go. I seriously hope he gets fired this season. This team is almost as worse as the Fisherman era days. I've always supported him and was excited when he was first hired. He brought in Trotz and made some good changes. But ever since that last eastern conference finals appearance, he has really done nothing to help this roster. Trotz mysteriously gets fired for missing the playoffs after all he did. Then Lambert was hired which was a huge mistake, and now Roy. It can't always be the coach. Horvat was a complete waste of a 1st round pick and Pageau is not worth his salary among others. They should have kept Eberle and Leddy. Trouble is, no one wants to play on Long Island. The biggest sign that something's wrong with this team is every time someone goes down, we fall apart because of lack of depth. That's how fragile we are as a club. It's so bad, the AHL and ECHL teams are among the worst in their leagues and have been for years. That doesn't say a lot about our draft/management team. I don't blame Roy at all either. He's doing the best he can with this awful injury prone team. Please fire Lou! It's time. It's time to rebuild this team with a GM who isn't in a rush and knows what he's doing. Fire sale time! Total liquidation for assets. It's really sad because I live in a state where I can watch the Lightning and Panthers play lights out hockey and every time I ask myself "Why can't the Islanders dominate like this?" Because of Lou, that's who…
Patrick Roy for GM now.
HA HA isles tried a different game with same outcome-a big L. Isles fall behind 4-0 yet try to mount comeback at 4-2 then realize this offense sucks and isn't capable of a 4 g comeback. On the bright side or predictable side pk shines again giving up 2 more g's. pk should be 32nd any game now. Just face it 30 was horrible. When 30 is horrible isles have NO FKN CHANCE to W. Isles sooo not a playoff team now last in division 2 pts. out of east cellar. 7 loser pts. keeping isles out of east cellar. Hopefully the clock is now ticking on louzer-TICK TICK TICK…
Hi Gil. Sorry fell asleep esrly lately . Lol you guys saying Roy is gone ?? Im looking at you ronald and Andre .come on man .wtf do expect him to do woth this joke roster .stop being typical fans. He s a blessing and will be g.m. like i said on my bday when we hired him .He was brought here to replace Louzer THANK GOD
Lou keeps doubling down on his veteran core with their NTC and Max contracts saying they can win. This is what makes this so frustrating . A veteran core should not come out as flat as they do as often as they do and implode as often as they do in the 3rd period
I firmly believe the issue is a combination of psychological, being old and CULTURE problem
We ALL have seen the video of Ovechkin yelling at his teammate saying turn the puck over again and I will kill you
Granted excessive
However they need some new blood who has cred in the locker room meaning 60+ points who literally will be yelling and cursing out the team
Enough is enough
If the islanders did this when roy was playing in Montreal after a loss he woukd have gone berserk
I know bc lived in Montreal for 5
years