Last year, the New York Islanders finished with their best regular season in 29 years, collecting 101 points at a 61.6% point percentage before bowing out in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs in a tough, hotly contested battle with the Washington Capitals.
This year, they have 93 points through 77 games (60.4%), which is now their third highest total in that same time span (96 points in 2001-02). Looking at their schedule entering this last week of the regular season, combined with the way they have been playing for the better part of six weeks now, you have to wonder not if they will challenge last year’s mark but how many points they can conceivably pick up before Sunday's finale.
Yesterday in Brooklyn was an absolute horror show of a performance by a team that is stocked with the talent to achieve so much more. To put forth such a feeble effort as was witnessed by a sellout crowd of 15,795 poor souls who clearly wasted their money and Saturday afternoon is truly puzzling at this point of the season when the team should be getting ready for the upcoming playoffs, which start next Wednesday, April 13. And nobody seems to have the answers to why, how or what to do to reverse what has now become a trend rather than an aberration.
Sure, you can point to the 6-1-0 road trip in late February/early March and subsequent home win over the
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The mental makeup of this team right now is as fragile as it gets. Forget the fact that the team has scored 14 goals over their last five games - they are struggling mightily to generate any consistent offensive pressure and possess a breakout right now that would make a high school hockey coach cringe. Players seemingly are looking at each other, waiting (hoping?) that someone will step up and lead the turnaround, rather than taking it upon themselves to do something about
In this series the Rockies have put up decent offensive numbers however they have not won a series since mid-May against the Mets. The sweep of New York is still the Colorado’s only 4 game winning series.
Two possibilities still exist heading into the weekend for New York and each present a different set of challenges moving forward. They can either finish 3rd in the Metropolitan division and play the Pittsburgh Penguins, which would keep them in the division bracket moving forward or they could still finish in the first wild card position and face the Florida Panthers in the Atlantic division bracket.
To put this year's record in perspective, the Buccaneers are on the verge of surpassing their win total from last
There is 5 minutes and 36 seconds on the clock, the Knights needed to drive 86 yards to take the lead or even possibly win. The last time something like that happened, they lost in heartbreak to Jacobs, however on Friday Night at George Gattas Memorial Stadium, The Knights would not let that happen again.
Eugene Lee is an influential set designer for the theater world. Eugene Lee is a 75-year-old set designer who lives in Rhode Island with his wife Brooke. Lee grew up in Wisconsin and then attended Carnegie Mellon and Yale; he has also accumulated three colleague degrees. In spite of the fact that Lee works mostly in New York, Lee chose to live in Rhode Island because of the fact that he thinks it’s quirky. Lee has been a set designer for Saturday Night Live, Trinity Rep and many other theaters and shows.
The Nashville Predators have been going through a seemingly endless process since entering the NHL in 1998. It did not take the Predators long to establish a successful and competitive nature among the franchise. Their first five seasons they struggled becoming a team and missed the playoffs, however, they have come together and made the playoffs every year since. The Predator’s on-ice performance was consistently among the top three teams in the league, but still faced many challenges.
The most salient moment of season is that they were able to overcome a deficit of 7 games to clinch the division title.
They won there first regular season game to the texans 27-20. That went on the worst losing streak 5 in a row the Broncos. We were tied at 24 with 32 seconds left in the game they handed the ball of
On Sunday afternoon, the Philadelphia Phillies fell to the Chicago Cubs 7-2. being swept by them and finishing off their tough six-game road trip 1-5. This recent road trip for the Phillies was not easy as they went against a Detroit Tigers team, who is always in playoff contention and then a Cubs team, who has the best record in the majors at 34-14.
After that second Philly loss, the Cubs were 84-60 and the Mets had pulled ahead at 85-57. The Mets would not look back. The Cubs' eight-game losing streak finally ended the next day in St. Louis, but the Mets were in the midst of a ten-game winning streak, and the Cubs, wilting from team fatigue, generally deteriorated in all phases of the game. The Mets would go on to win the World Series. The Cubs, despite a respectable 92-70 record, would be remembered for having lost a remarkable 17½ games in the standings to the Mets in the last quarter of the season.
I think a team to point out is the Los Angeles Dodgers because ever since the end of the first half of the season, they have been one of the best team in the majors, without Kershaw. The Los Angeles Dodgers went from 51 – 40 with 6.5 GB of the San Francisco Giants, who were the best team heading into
As the NBA regular season comes to an end, it’s time for teams to prove themselves and show that they are playoff-worthy. The Cleveland Cavaliers, who had the best record in the NBA Eastern Conference, were recently dethroned by the Boston Celtics. Soon after the Celtics took the number 1 spot in the east, the defending champions came back with multiple wins to tie the Celtics record of 50 wins and 27 losses, then beating them to put them at 50 and 28.
Often referred to as the “Father of Our Country,” George Washington (1732-1799) is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in the early history of the the United States of America and a hero of the Revolutionary War. Honest, humble, noble, farmer, commander-in-chief - all words still used this day to describe our country’s first President. After eight years of war fighting for freedom from British tyranny and corruption, the American colonists were ready for peace, an organized government system, and strong leadership in their new-found freedom and as an independence nation. During the American Revolution (1775-1783), Washington worked his way through the military ranks serving as a Major during the French and Indian War (1754-1763), then Colonel under British General Edward Braddock 's army. In August, 1755, Washington was appointed Commander in Chief of the entire Continental Army. “He was sent to the frontier to patrol and protect nearly 400 miles of border with some 700 ill-disciplined colonial troops and a Virginia colonial legislature unwilling to support him”(Biography.com). Although he is credited for winning few battles against the British, he had a powerful ability to keep the struggling colonial army unified and motivated in the war effort despite the lack of military training of the enlisted men, the harsh weather conditions, and lack of food and supplies. Masterminding the defeat of the British forces at Yorktown, Virginia, under British General
Poe uses suspense through the finding black cat 2 night when the narrator was at home half drunk, the narrator was overwhelmed and began to think about Pluto, and how the black cat 2 resembled him. However, he found out that black cat 2 had some features that Pluto didn’t. Poe writes, “It was a black cat 2 – a very large one—fully as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him every respect but one’ (3). The reader feels as if that it was a supernatural event because they think it was the ghost of Pluto. Eventually Poe began to dislike the cat, and kept trying to find ways to avoid it because it started to become more like Pluto.
The saying is, “The hips do not lie.” Well, neither do NBA statistics. Critics and fans are always arguing who the best or worst NBA teams are. Statistics are not biased, nor are they opinions. Rather, they change people’s opinions. During the 2014-15 NBA season the Philadelphia 76ers were statistically the worst team in the NBA, and they show no signs of changing that anytime soon. Also, throughout the history of the Philadelphia franchise, they have not been relatively good ever. Some critics and fans put the blame on the owners, they have a good reason to blame them. The owners of the 76ers have not made the best decisions to get them to where they are now. Although there are many productive NBA teams, the Philadelphia