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If it is true that the Lightning represent a step up in class for the Islanders, the inverse is equally true, if not quite equally apparent.
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The Islanders are off and running in the NHL semifinals.
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The Islanders are about to take on a Lightning team that has a 20-man lineup nearly $8 million over the cap — at $89,329,116 — in the Stanley Cup semifinals.
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Chris Drury faces a massive task in his first offseason as Rangers general manager.
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The Islanders advanced to the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs Wednesday.
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While the second-round series between the Islanders and Bruins has gotten nastier and nastier on the ice each game, the jabs have carried over to the postgame.
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The Islanders defeated the Bruins on Monday to take a 3-2 series lead in the second round of the 2021 NHL playoffs.
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Game 4 certainly had the Islanders in their element, as they bulldozed their way to a 4-1 win over the Bruins Saturday night at Nassau Coliseum to knot the second-round series at two wins a piece.
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The Maple Leafs have lost five consecutive opening-round series.
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Sometimes there is no explanation.
Sometimes it is just hockey.
Otherwise, how would you explain the fact that on a night when the Islanders did as good a job as possible blanketing and denying...