The U.S. men’s national team broke up for the next four months with things in as good a position as anyone could have pictured when they reported to camp at the start of last week.
If not for what looked like a serious injury to Alexander Romanov, you would be calling this the best road trip the Islanders have had in a hot minute.
While there are fair arguments for both to make the roster or not when it is announced ahead of the Dec. 31 deadline, neither was taking the lack of direct communication as meaning anything.
Brock Nelson, like most people who have watched the Islanders for the past decade, keeps catching himself when he sees highlights of this year’s team. He notices No. 29, and it takes a moment to compute.
Their late luck ran out Sunday, and so did a burgeoning four-game win streak as the Islanders fell short in a 4-1 loss to the Avalanche, their first defeat of this seven-game road trip that still has stops left in Dallas and Detroit.
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