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Good Morning, Islanders Country.
If this Islanders season twists itself into something worth following into the spring, it won’t be decided by how they look against the Carolinas and Floridas of the world. Those are bonus rounds — house money nights where a steal is glorious but not required. The truth is harsher and simpler: their fate will be written in the games against the teams living in the same ZIP code of the NHL standings — the murky middle. Beat the ones like you. Beat the ones below you. That’s how you survive in this league.
Saturday in Philadelphia was exactly the kind of night that ends up on audit in April. The Islanders blew three separate one-goal leads, squandered chances in overtime that begged to be finished, and then bled out in a shootout to the Flyers, one of the few Metro teams widely projected to finish beneath them.
