{"id":56959,"date":"2020-08-31T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/islanders-havent-been-this-close-to-stanley-cup-in-a-while\/"},"modified":"2020-08-31T01:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T22:08:00","slug":"islanders-havent-been-this-close-to-stanley-cup-in-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/islanders-havent-been-this-close-to-stanley-cup-in-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"#Islanders haven\u2019t been this close to Stanley Cup in a while"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Islanders haven\u2019t been this close to Stanley Cup in a while<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 30, 2020 |<\/span> 6:08pm <\/p>\n

\n The Islanders are closer to the Stanley Cup than they have been in the past 27 years.<\/p>\n

It may not be under usual circumstances, but there is no debating that this group is the sturdiest Islanders team to come through the playoffs in nearly three decades. Head coach Barry Trotz said he hasn\u2019t thought about how much he\u2019s been able to accomplish in just his second year with the team, but the 2018 Stanley Cup-winning coach indicated that he is just getting started.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I came here I said this to the whole group: I had a great experience in Washington, I was able to go to the top of the mountain there in this league and I really want to share that with this group,\u201d Trotz said on a Zoom call Sunday before Game<\/a> 4 against the Flyers. \u201cThe journey is going to have different paths and unusual paths, and it may take some time, but it\u2019s part of the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be an organization that can vie to be a playoff team every year and vie to be a contender every year. That\u2019s part of the building blocks.\u201d<\/p>\n

After sweeping the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round last year, the Islanders went on to get swept in four games by the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round to cap off Trotz\u2019s first year with the club.<\/p>\n

This postseason, The Islanders have turned a lot of heads as they\u2019ve garnered a 9-3 record since arriving in the Toronto bubble.<\/p>\n

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The Islanders haven\u2019t been this far in the postseason since 1993.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the similarities between the 1993 Islanders team, which fell short in the Prince of Wales Conference Finals in five games to the Montreal Canadiens, begs the question of how far this 2020 Islanders club could go.<\/p>\n

This is the first postseason since 1993 that three Islanders players have registered five or more goals, with Anthony Beauvillier (seven), Anders Lee (six) and Jean-Gabriel Pageau (six) resembling that of Ray Ferraro (13), Benoit Hogue (six), Steve Thomas (nine) and Pierre Turgeon (six).<\/p>\n

The 2020 season has likely thrown this Islanders team more curveballs than anything that 1993 group saw, but to Trotz, that\u2019s what makes this run all the more impressive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is such an unusual playoff where you don\u2019t have to go through the grind of 82 games and a lot of teams head into the playoffs, the guys are banged up, worn out, emotionally drained just to get there that it can effect who\u2019s going to be the Stanley Cup champion,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is about as close to fresh teams, everybody healthy for the most part, going at it and the competition is tremendous. You\u2019re seeing the parity in the league and the parity is because everybody was healthy, everybody came back at the same point. Hopefully we can sustain this and keep playing well.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is still a long way for the Islanders to go until the Stanley Cup is realistically in sight, but they believe there\u2019s another level in their game they may be able to tap into. To Trotz, it\u2019ll be a test of how the Islanders handle the big moments ahead. The moments the last Islanders team to come this far couldn\u2019t rise to.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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