Islanders end long road trip with a dud in listless loss to Kraken
NY Post
SEATTLE — Throughout a trip that everyone in the organization seemed to agree was the longest of their careers, the Islanders had done an excellent job of not letting the extended time on the road get to them.
The operative word in that sentence: had.
Because on Wednesday night in the seventh and last game of this two-week odyssey, the Islanders looked like they couldn’t wait to get on the plane and get home.
They had been playing survive-and-advance hockey most of the trip, and finally, that wasn’t enough against the Kraken in a 4-1 defeat at Climate Pledge Arena.
They finished the trip 3-3-1, a record that simultaneously feels disappointing given the Islanders beat the two best teams they played — Edmonton and Minnesota — while perhaps being more than they deserved given that they may not have decisively been the better team in any of the seven games.
“We gotta find ways to take care of the puck,” a sullen Casey Cizikas told The Post. “It’s happening too many times right now. Turn a puck over, giving them chances, odd-man chances. It’s just those turnovers are killing us, and we gotta find a way to limit those.”
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