By Lenn Robbins There’s a reason hockey’s overtime is known as sudden death. The agony of losing is vastly more devastating than the joy of winning. The Islanders are the latest team […]
Islanders Need to Start Planning a Parade Route
Islanders Continue to be a Lightning Pain
By Lenn Robbins Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper was lamenting the challenge the Islanders top line presents, even if Anders Lee, Jorden Eberle and Matt Barzal have been held in check for […]
Isles Have to Make the Lightning Respect Them
By Lenn Robbins No matter how you get there, a 3-1 deficit is a 3-1 deficit. After being outplayed by what clearly is a more offensively potent Tampa Bay team, the Islanders […]
Exhausted Islanders Get Struck By Lightning, 8-2 – The New York Extra/TheNYExtra.com
By Lenn Robbins Really now, the odds were so stacked against the Islanders in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals that a win would have been nothing short of amazing. While […]
7th Heaven – Isles Advance to Conference Finals – The New York Extra/TheNYExtra.com
By Lenn Robbins The Islanders are four wins away from playing for the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1984. Let that settle in for a minute. Once one of the […]
Islanders Pushed to a Game 7 Despite Outplaying Flyers – The New York Extra/TheNYExtra.com
By Lenn Robbins Barry Trotz doesn’t need any reminders about how difficult it is to close out a Stanley Cup Playoff series. But he and the Islanders are getting one. Having already […]
Overtime Loss Puts Isles in a Precarious Position – The New York Extra/TheNYExtra.com
By Lenn Robbins The worst thing about a Game 6, if you’re the team that held a 3-1 series lead, is that it can lead to a Game 7, where one fluke […]
The Islanders Are Flirting With Destiny – The New York Extra/TheNYExtra.com
ROBBINS NEST By Lenn Robbins The mystery and wonder of a group of players and coaches coalescing into that hallowed entity known as a team of destiny is this: We aren’t aware […]
Isles Beginning to Assert Their Dominance – Again
One couldn’t fault the Philadelphia Flyers if they’re starting to think they’ve seen this show before. They have. The Islanders are dismantling No.1-seed in the Eastern Conference just as they methodically took […]
Series Tied 1-1 but Islanders Have Been the Better Team
By Lenn Robbins This was a game the Islanders had no business winning after the first period. Trailing 3-0 with starting goalie and playoff sensation Semyon Varlamov pulled in favor of Thomas […]