The New York Islanders have established themselves. Not in a positive way, mind you, but they are perhaps in the worst position as they ever have been as a National Hockey League team - the league's worst.
Before you try to say that I'm wrong - I know that the Islanders have 12 wins and that the Tampa Bay Lightning have just 11 - but look a little further in the stats and you will see why I am correct.
New York has 26 losses in regulation, which is the most in the NHL. Tampa has just 19 because they have lost 10 games in overtime.
Also, New York has only 28 points. It is the only team in the league that has not topped to 30 mark for points.
If you look at goals scored, the Islanders have 109 to their credit. Six teams have less goals than the Islanders, but the difference is that the Islanders have allowed 154 goals, compared to those other six clubs where just one of them, the Lightning, has allowed more than 120 goals - 124 to be exact.
Next, let's take a look at the flaming-hot hockey that New York has played over its last 21 games.
The Islanders have lost four straight games, six of their last seven, 16 of 18, and 18 of 21. That's miserable hockey, no matter who is on the injured list.
I know that preseason is preseason, but it's amazing how a team can win four of seven games in training camp, but can then go on to the regular season and win four of TWENTY-TWO! - including a 10-game losing streak.
A couple of years ago, it seemed as though perhaps the Islanders were on a road to being a contending team once again, but the last two seasons have been a joke.
They changed coaches again before this season, but it certainly hasn't seemed to help at all.
I don't know what GM Garth Snow is doing, and personally I don't think that he has a clue, either.
It sure doesn't appear that New York is in a winning direction, and this ship is sinking fast.
Something needs to be done, and quickly.
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