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They usually involve drinking, especially if you’re watching the Islanders.
As is usually tradition, the New York Islanders will play a home game tonight, Thanksgiving Eve. This year, they face the Boston Bruins, who will play just their fourth game under the stewardship of former Weird Islander Joe Sacco.
The Bruins hosted the Canucks last night and despite badly outshooting them, they got shut out, 2-0 with an empty-netter—and their old friend, Jake DeBrusk in his first trip back to Boston, scored the only goal against a goalie. While all that may leave them irritated and ready to rage tonight, they should also be a bit tired with the back-to-back with travel; not to mention, they’ve had a lot going on the last couple of weeks. Also, Jeremy Swayman started last night, which would likely mean the far more beatable Joonas Korpisalo would get the nod tonight. These Bruins are not the Bruins we’ve become accustomed to seeing, at least not right now
Thus, the Islanders need to take two regulation points—without giving one away, ideally—against a team they would likely battle for a playoff spot. They utterly and rather meekly failed at that task several times against the Red Wings, but that’s in the past. They need to right the ship and hold onto leads.
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Fun fact: #Isles and #NHLBruins have both been shut out 4 times this season.
But there has been some internal rumbling that the Islanders, who have not won a playoff round since 2021, need to qualify for Lamoriello to be retained. To be fair, one of Lamoriello’s greatest strengths is he plugs all leaks so that internal rumbling may be off base.
But what if it’s not? If Lamoriello is “playing for his job,” how does that affect his upcoming decision on Nelson and Palmieri?—Newsday
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