Barry Trotz didn’t mince words when saying that this is what he wanted for him and his team. “I’m glad it’s Tampa,” the Islanders’ head coach said on Thursday in a radio spot on ESPN NY Radio. “If you’re going to win a Stanley Cup, why not go through the ...

In the midst of the Islanders’ first-round game four matchup with the Pittsburgh Penguins at Nassau Coliseum, a highlight video played on the jumbotron. Within moments, Matt Moulson appeared on the screen with a blue t-shirt in hand. The crowd inside the Coliseum erupted and chants of “Matty Moulson” rang ...

Within the first few minutes of game six starting on Wednesday night, you could feel it. You could feel it when Ryan Pulock let that first clapper go 13 seconds in on Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask. You could feel it when Adam Pelech laid a big hit (some thought it ...

For a moment it felt like Anthony Beauvillier was going to be the GOAT on Monday evening. And no, not the good kind. Right off the bat to start a critical Game 5, the Islanders found themselves behind once again to the Bruins with Beauvillier being the culprit. He was ...

The term street fight has been used once to describe already one game in the playoffs for the Islanders. Oddly enough, it was coined by a Penguins beat writer in the last round in game three where they lost 5-4 to the Pittsburgh Penguins. It was in that contest, particularly ...

For any trade that takes place in the NHL, there’s always a winner and loser. Sometimes that’s determined by how the major piece or pieces of that said deal performs when it matters the most. In the Islanders’ case, they have been lucky enough two years in a row to ...

For the Islanders to bounce back from their game one defeat, for them to get the series knotted and bring it back to a raucous Nassau Coliseum for game three, for them to find a way to win last night, it was going to take everything and everyone. And truth ...

Let me preface this by saying the Islanders weren’t as bad as many believed they played in their game one loss in Boston last night. Yes the score, 5-2, and shot disparity was clear once the final buzzer sounded — the Isles only recorded 22 shots to the Bruins 40 ...

I will go on the record and say I wanted the Islanders to avoid the Boston Bruins at all costs before the playoffs began. I made that remark on the PTIsles Podcast when asked who I preferred the team play in the first round (P.S. I wanted the Pens). Well, ...

There are a multitude of things you can point to for the Islanders’ success now over the last three years. One of those instilled in them from day one under the Barry Trotz regime was a little-known but missing quality: resilience. Resilence in the dictionary is defined as “the capacity ...