Happy Halloween, Islanders Country.
The Isles are frustrated and have good reason to be after the latest effort in futility Wednesday night in Columbus. Patrick Roy’s team has been shut out in 40% of their games this season (4 of 10), and despite that alarming fact, they honestly feel they have been the better team most nights. "We deserve to be disappointed because we played a really good game,” said Roy after the 2-0 loss.
That’s hard to hear as a fan, even if it may be true.
There are only so many times you can hear that “good things will come” if they keep playing this way when they keep playing the same way without those good things coming. It’s been the same script on a different night. The players have to believe that the script will flip, but in low moments, sometimes all you want to hear is an acknowledgment from the coach that they haven’t been nearly good enough, and something has to change.
Instead, Roy offered that he loves how hard the guys are working, but it’s a results-oriented business, and at the 10-game mark, the Isles are the worst-finishing team in the league. “It's a team thing right now, and we're going to get out of it together,” Roy said. “We’re playing good enough to win, and we're coming up short. At the same time, we need to be resilient, and we need to find ways to win.”
