On Thursday, other Islanders took solace in the fact that Mat Barzal — who thrives on endless skating — was just as exhausted as the rest of them.
If you were on social media anytime Thursday, you would’ve noticed a lot of teams around the NHL doing bag skates.
That changed enough to get them into the playoffs, but everyone involved acknowledges a major midseason overhaul was not, in a perfect world, how things would have happened. “Honestly you can’t be ready for it, even if you practice, if you’re skating like that all summer long,” Alexander Romanov said. “Before , we spent one hour doing one-on-one battles, so you can be prepared for everything.
This is about figuring out the roster. It is also about creating a new standard — not merely reenforcing one.If Roy feels the need to bag skate the team in February again, that’s a sign that whatever they did in September didn’t take.
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