We got a taste of it last season, but Patrick Roy's Islanders brand of hockey isn't of the boring variety.
We got a taste of it last season, but Patrick Roy's Islanders brand of hockey isn't of the boring variety.
On Wednesday morning, our Stefen Rosner joined Jonny Lazarus and Colby Cohen on Morning Cuppa Hockey to talk New York Islanders hockey ahead of their season-opener.
For years, Islanders critics termed the club as boring, not taking chances offensively -- and that they're a group of skaters who would rather sit back and win 1-0 or 2-1 rather than go for the kill and win 5-1 or 6-1.
It's an outdated perspective, but one that should finally be put to bed in 2024-25.
From what Rosner's seen through training camp and preseason, boring won't be in the Islanders' vocabulary:
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