Good Morning, Islanders Country.
Early last season, then-head coach Lane Lambert said that while blowing multi-goal leads wasn’t a recipe for success, it was too early to call it a trend. Well, this season, head coach Patrick Roy and the Islanders have found a new tendency to worry about - being shutout.
Now, it’s too early to call it a trend, but …. for the first time in team history, the Islanders have been shutout for three times in the first six games. A stat made more befuddling by the fact that they have outshot their opponents in all six, the only team in the NHL to do that.
“We're all going to agree that’s not the result we wanted,” Head Coach Patrick Roy said. “It was 29-10, shots on net and I don't know how many chances against, we dominated every, department of the game.”
Everyone agrees, but that doesn’t quell early-season concerns about what life will be like without Anthony Duclair. The volume of shots (29) sounds good, but the team only generated two high-danger opportunities at even-strength and went 0-for-3 on the power play, which has had to shuffle the units around following the Duclair injury. “I think eventually the puck will bounce our way,” Roy added. “I’m a positive person. I think that, eventually, things will turn our way.
