SUMMERLIN, Nev. — The Senators did it. Canadians did it. The Red Wings are right in the middle of it.
Why can't the islanders do that?
“I think if we're going to have a chance, we need to win some.” [on a] ” Jean-Gabriel Pageau told the Post. “It’s not just two times in a row.”
Even winning their second straight game against the Golden Knights on Thursday has been a tall order for the Islanders so far, with only two consecutive wins this season and neither of them followed up. 3 consecutive wins.
Still, the situation in the Eastern Conference is such that the 15th-place Islanders are just five points out of the final playoff spot with a game remaining against the current first-place Blue Jackets, and a relatively short winning streak could change the standings. There is so much. A complete team story.
The Senators won six straight in mid-December.
Montreal finished 2024 with six wins out of seven, and the Red Wings are currently on a five-game winning streak after replacing coach Derek Lalonde with coach Todd McClellan.
At the beginning of this season, it looked like everyone was going nowhere, but now everyone is chasing the playoffs with all their might.
If the Islanders can turn things around, that's it.
On a relative scale, relative is the right word, but it's not that impossible.
“It's close for some teams. We just tied the strings together and you never know what's going to happen,” Scott Mayfield told the Post. “It reminds me of St. Louis. [in 2019]late January, early February, they were at the bottom of the league or something. And that year, they won the Stanley Cup. Things can turn around, but you have to have that faith. You can put in the work, you have to have that belief. We know it's here, we just have to do it. ”
coach patrick roy Anthony Duclair, who has played in seven games since returning from a suspected groin injury, said he is still “just a little way there” in terms of returning to full fitness.
“I’m very happy with what I’ve seen so far,” Roy said. “He's fine. I'm not worried about him at all.”
The Islanders' line and pairings have not changed their practices from Sunday's run in Boston.
Ilya Sorokin was the first off the ice, indicating that he is likely to start on Thursday.
