Skidding Islanders can’t climb out of early hole in loss to Bruins
NY Post
Dueling chants broke out at UBS Arena in the waning moments of a 6-3 Islanders loss to the Bruins on Wednesday night.
From the Islanders fans who did not head for the exits after Nikita Zadorov’s empty-net goal: “Fire Lou!”
From the Boston fans who made the trip down to Long Island: “Let’s go Bruins!”
Rock bottom for the season so far, and the Islanders had better hope it goes up from here.
“Every night, they’re there, they’re pushing,” coach Patrick Roy said, insisting on maintaining optimism about his team despite its halting 8-10-5 record with just four regulation wins so far. “It’s the team that [general manager] Lou [Lamoriello] gave me and I’m gonna work extremely hard for these guys and I owe this to the players and to our fans, to make sure that we compete every night.
“Our fans might be pissed off because we’re losing games, but one thing, we compete every night and I would love to see the result be on our side instead of the losing side.”
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The decision Doug Armstrong’s management group needs to make before the Canadian Olympic roster is announced on New Year’s Eve cannot be about letting Matthew Schaefer be around the group before he takes a leading role in the 2028 World Cup or 2030 Olympics.
The cold, unappetizing truth for Steve Cohen is that he has only one person to blame for the backlash presently aimed at his baseball team, and it isn’t David Stearns. Oh, Stearns makes for an easy target, a never-played-the-game Harvard man who is the perfect contrast to the rub-some-dirt-on-it tobacco chompers who ruled the game for a century.
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Aaron Glenn’s wish is giving Jets fans a game they can remember in the home finale against the Patriots on Sunday.
Trent Williams’ Hall of Fame career won’t be ending anytime soon.
Brian Burns might not be able to overcome the stench of the Giants’ 2-13 record and Myles Garrett’s incredible season to win NFL Defensive Player of the Player, but he is headed back to the Pro Bowl.
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