It's been a rough year for the Islanders. On the ice, they stumbled to another last-place finish in the Atlantic Division and missed the playoffs for the fourth straight season. Off the ice, things were even worse. There was the public embarrassment of Evgeni Nabokov refusing to play for them when they claimed him off waivers. There is the fact that they are struggling to even reach the cap floor despite accepting New Jersey's salary-dump trade for Brian Rolston and still having Alexei Yashin's buyout on the books. And there was the public's rejection of a plan to fund a...
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