Can you hear that? Listen real close……Hear it?
Peace and serenity across Islanders social media. Everyone might as well be sitting around a campfire, roasting marshmallows and singing Kumbaya.
Well, for one night at least.
The Islanders eased tensions among the Barclays Center faithful and within their own locker room with last night’s 4-2 win over the sinking Vancouver Canucks in Brooklyn. To add to the good vibes was Jason Chimera and Andrew Ladd finally getting off the snide and scoring their first goals of the 2016-17 campaign, a campaign that last week looked to match the drama and unrest of the presidential one unfolding before a divided and confused nation that hopefully comes to an end today.
New York now sits with a 5-6-2 record …show more content…
A burden of consistency and complacency, not really being able to bond with your teammates and get to know them on a more personal level, getting too comfortable. With New York ushering out three players this offseason and rushing in two new ones, this could play a vital role in getting the team playing the type of hockey they need to play and not just looking the part against a team that had lost eight straight coming in.
When I asked Clutterbuck about looking forward to getting out on the road, his eyes lit up. “Oh, yeah. Been looking forward to it for a long time. People look at a homestand like this and think it’s great. But it’s tough. It’s being in one place for a long period of time, it gets redundant and it’s easy for you to get into the ‘groundhog day’ type of feel. It will be really nice for us to get away for a couple of days.”
On my way out of the locker room, I posed the same question to Thomas Hickey, not really expecting a different response. “I think it’s going to be good for our group. Look, it’s great to be at home and play in front of your own fans, sleep in your own bed and be with your families. But, at the same time, our routine is usually changing every single day so it’s weird when you’re home for a couple weeks like
Peace and serenity across Islanders social media. Everyone might as well be sitting around a campfire, roasting marshmallows and singing Kumbaya.
Well, for one night at least.
The Islanders eased tensions among the Barclays Center faithful and within their own locker room with last night’s 4-2 win over the sinking Vancouver Canucks in Brooklyn. To add to the good vibes was Jason Chimera and Andrew Ladd finally getting off the snide and scoring their first goals of the 2016-17 campaign, a campaign that last week looked to match the drama and unrest of the presidential one unfolding before a divided and confused nation that hopefully comes to an end today.
New York now sits with a 5-6-2 record …show more content…
A burden of consistency and complacency, not really being able to bond with your teammates and get to know them on a more personal level, getting too comfortable. With New York ushering out three players this offseason and rushing in two new ones, this could play a vital role in getting the team playing the type of hockey they need to play and not just looking the part against a team that had lost eight straight coming in.
When I asked Clutterbuck about looking forward to getting out on the road, his eyes lit up. “Oh, yeah. Been looking forward to it for a long time. People look at a homestand like this and think it’s great. But it’s tough. It’s being in one place for a long period of time, it gets redundant and it’s easy for you to get into the ‘groundhog day’ type of feel. It will be really nice for us to get away for a couple of days.”
On my way out of the locker room, I posed the same question to Thomas Hickey, not really expecting a different response. “I think it’s going to be good for our group. Look, it’s great to be at home and play in front of your own fans, sleep in your own bed and be with your families. But, at the same time, our routine is usually changing every single day so it’s weird when you’re home for a couple weeks like