New York Islanders know how New Jersey Devils felt at the end of the last two normal season.
It is enough to say that the islanders will prefer to feel like demons, not their demons a year ago.
When the Islanders are going to play the rope, when the demons visited New Jersey in New York on Sunday, New Mark, the last conflict of the season between the Metropolitan Division competitors.
The islanders complete a consecutive path after the Saturday afternoon was removed from the playoff discussion with 4-3 throw to Philadelphia Flyers. The devils last played on Friday, the visitor fell 4-2 to Pittsburgh Penguins.
A playoff dock, most of the season (34-33-12, 80 points) for the islanders who have not occupied a place between the first eight of the Eastern Conference since 19 November.
However, the reality of the loss of Saturday-Flyers Bobby Brink, the only goal of a five-round shot was sealed-Playoff’ler the only way to win the last four matches, lost the last four matches.
Instead, the islanders will only miss the playoffs for the second time in seven seasons. New York fell into the hurricane Carolina in the first round in each of the last two years.
“This is not a place we want to be,” one of the Adams Lee, one of a handful of players, who is part of New York’s last five playoff teams. ” He said.
“We had a lot of trouble, and we have done our best to protect our foundation in the last 15 games and give ourselves a chance, but there were stretching that occasionally put one or two games and put us in a place where we control.” He said.
Despite a series of injuries, the demons (41-31-7, 89 points) control their fate in most of the season and will return to the playoffs for the second time in three years. New Jersey, in the first round, beat the New York Rangers in 2022-23 after a four-year playofff drought after the last season came 13th at the Eastern Conference.
New Jersey, who is locked in the third place in the metropolitan section, will encounter Carolina hurricanes in the first round, but the demons will have to buy ice without Jack Hughes, the rest of the season with shoulder injury on March 2.
The demons will also be without Jonas Siegenthaler, defendant who suffered a lower body injury on February 4. However, the blue primer, who has not played due to lower body injury since March 4, will return to training on Saturday.
“It was great to see him there – an important step in the rehabilitation process.” He said. He continued: “He did much more than we expected, which is a positive sign that he feels good. Very encouraging.”
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