The rangers and islanders are directed in the same direction – down and out

Elmont, NY – The New York Rangers have already destroyed their season. Thursday brought the islanders of New York with them.

The two New York teams did not really dignity this year. We have cataloged everything, from the beginning of the 12-4-1 of the Rangers to GM Chris Drury “Make Me A Offer” Group Text at one of the most miserable features of winter hockey that the Rangers played in a couple of decades.

On the other hand, the islanders never left the starting gate. Too many injuries, too many protagonists and a trade in the expiry of Brock Nelson have low them, even if both the islands and the rangers were still barely alive for a playoff place that entered the last meeting on Thursday between the two.

The 9-2 final is a ridiculous score, but neither parts was having a lot of fun. The Rangers have won, by the way, which means that both the islanders have a tragic number of one – if the canadiens obtain only one point in the last four games or the Rangers or the islanders lose in any way in the last three and four games, it is finally very finished.

These teams are not as unfortunate or hopeless as in the dark days of 1997-2001, when none of the two teams smelled a playoff place during a desolate four-year race of complete and cheap disorder on Long Island or Spenfrift Fimelss in Broadway. We are still removed only four years from the island back-to-back semi-final races during the seasons of the pandemic era and we are removed only 10 months from the rangers who reach a second final of the Eastern Conference in three years.

This season seemed to be a decade in both bases. The autoimmulation of the Rangers, from Drury to the ardent seat of Peter Laviolette in a dying locker room, was incredible to testify. They scored 14 goals in two days and somehow managed to play one of their worst games of the season on Wednesday, when the collection Sam Rosen collaborated with the old transmission partner John Davidson to make fans happy at home, at least for one night. Until they didn’t care about what was happening on the ice.

The islanders could really have a chance to the playoffs except for the Rangers, who completed a series of series of four games on Thursday, overcoming the islanders 23-5 in those games. And it is not that the other three arrived during the good start of the rangers for the season; The two previous losses, 5-1 and 4-0, were after the break of the 4 nations in February.

“I don’t know what it is,” said K’Andre Miller of the domain of the Rangers on the islanders and the lack of the same against almost all the others. “Reale, I guess?”

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The islanders managed to go 0-11-0 against the Rangers, Red Wings, Ducks and Kraken, four teams that, like them, will play Tankathon to the lottery. You can’t win anything except some pink briefs losing in bad teams. To paraphrase a saying: if you can’t recognize the bad team in the room, maybe it’s you.

Ilya Sorokin’s injury suffered on Tuesday in Nashville marked the fate of the islands, really. Marcus Hogberg was a game, but he is a goalkeeper n. 3 which has spent the last three years in Sweden for one reason. It doesn’t matter how serious Sorokin’s injury can be, his lack at any time has meant a blow to the playoffs was remote. This is a team that works hard, but perhaps it is not intelligent and the islanders have turned the records since the beginning of Thursday and did not stop until the Rangers hung on the Ubs Arena scoreboard.

Add it to the seven who allowed the predators, another team tied to the lottery, and this is 16 goals in two games in which the islands had to be stingy.

“When you turn the records,” said Patrick Roy, “you don’t have a defensive structure.”

The islanders are games but lacking. The Rangers have shown very little heart or fortress since November and there is something dryly fun in the fact that goals on Thursday’s islands accumulate, only 24 hours after having completely broken their playoffs hopes, letting the final flyers have put on eight.

If, if, if – you don’t want to play that game, but it is difficult not to do it.

“We play for our families, for our fans and deserve much better than we are playing right now,” said Igor Sherkin after a 44 -year -old performance. “We just need two points every night.”

Roy believed that his team did not stop despite a 4-0 deficit after a period. “The teams without pride do not have 47 shots (the islanders actually have 46),” he said. “We had 23 possibilities in the second and third period.”

Obviously, if he had studied a Rangers ribbon this season, he would know that there are only two teams, sharks and penguins, who give up several Ballani than a game compared to the rangers.

The Ranger remained three games. Once the season is finished, Laviolette could get the gate, leaving Drury to hire a third coach in five years. The mandate of the GM to change his team around seems even more urgent than he did last summer, when he downloaded Barclay Goodrow and tried to do the same with Jacob Trouba. Those two have disappeared and the Rangers are a robust 24-25-6 since Trouba was treated. Maybe it wasn’t just him.

The islanders remained four games. Once the season is finished, there could be a appetite to go from Lou Lamoriello, who started towards what must be done by exchanging Nelson but did not go far enough to expire. The final decision is based with the main owner Scott Malkin and there is nothing right now to indicate that Lamoriello will be forced to go out. The same for Roy, who is more years for his agreement. The change for the islanders means that the type of roster transforms Lamoriello has been reluctant to perform previous offseason.

These two teams have appeared in four of the last five semifinals/finals of the conference. The islanders increased under Lamoriello and Barry Trotz, then they fell; The rangers were building slowly, then quickly and burned everything in a way of months.

However, they arrived at this point, the Rangers and the islanders have an important thing in common: they are both bad teams. Both will miss the playoffs. Both need more work to return to any type of contending state, regardless of those who manage the teams or train the instructions.

How do they get there? This is one to section through the offseason. And that time of surrender that is coming quickly.

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