New York Islanders Daily: Looking Forward To The Road

After a long homestand in which the New York Islanders struggled, the team is looking forward to hitting the road to right the ship.

It’s no secret that the New York Islanders have gotten out to a slow start during their heavy home schedule. Some of the guys are looking at the opportunity to get on the road as a good thing.

Cal Clutterbuck said “Oh, yeah. Been looking forward to it for a long time. People look at a homestand like this and think it’s great. But it’s tough. It’s being in one place for a long period of time, it gets redundant and it’s easy for you to get into the ‘groundhog day’ type of feel. It will be really nice for us to get away for a couple of days.”

I can see where Clutterbuck is coming from. Complacency is something that you’re looking to avoid in sports and being at the same place for a long period of time can create complacency.

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Although the big issue is their schedule doesn’t get any easier. They have to play the Tampa Bay Lightning who  recently embarrassed the Islanders by a score of 6-1 and also the Florida Panthers who will be looking to avenge their playoff defeat.

The Islanders offense broke out against Vancouver, they put up a four spot and even got goals from Jason Chimera and Andrew Ladd. The only issue with that is Vancouver’s a bad team and the Islanders will have to go up against some tough tests on this road trip. It’ll be interesting to see if the Islanders can keep up with their offensive pace from their last victory.

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