
Listless Islanders suffer sixth straight loss in latest flop against Lightning
NY Post
This one wasn’t even a moral victory
If anything, it felt like the night the Islanders waved a white flag on their season, with the head coach tossing Anthony Duclair under the bus afterward by calling his play “god-awful.” Truth be told, Duclair wasn’t the only one.
The Islanders looked slow. The Islanders looked old.
The Islanders power play made a dog’s breakfast look appetizing.
The Islanders lost a lifeless game to the Lightning 4-1 on Tuesday at UBS, their second loss in three games to Tampa Bay and sixth defeat in a row.
“At the end of the day, we’re doing it to ourselves,” Bo Horvat said. “We’re just making the wrong plays and the wrong mistakes at the wrong time.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












