UNIONDALE, NY—Just five points separated the Islanders from the Eastern Conference’s eighth spot heading into Wednesday.
Islanders general manager Garth Snow said he considers his team still in the playoff race. But the GM still chose to build for the long-term rather than make a late push, trading 6-6 defenseman Andy Sutton to the Ottawa Senators [...]

UNIONDALE, NY— A strong start this month put the Islanders in contention for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
But back-to-back losing performances against first-place clubs demonstrated just how far the Isles need to go to hang with league’s elite opponents.
Washington’s NHL-best offense surged to five goals on its first 18 shots as the Capitals [...]

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With three straight wins against struggling opponents, the 7-6 Jets come back to the Swamp this Sunday to face a once playoff bound team now fighting for its life as well, the 6-7 Atlanta Falcons. Losing starting QB Matt Ryan and one of the NFL’s top RBs Michael Turner to [...]

NEW YORK – As absurd as it would have sounded just a few weeks ago, it now makes total sense.
The Knicks were better off last season.
It was easy to be a Knick in 2008-09. No one expected any major improvements and when something went wrong, there was always the newly departed Isiah Thomas to blame. [...]

The talk all around the National Basketball Association as the current season begins has been the plethora of teams who are merely looking to go through the motions in anticipation of the free agent class coming up in the summer. It is almost as if this – and in some cases – last season were [...]

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY— Most clubs can define its seasons on a critical stretch that secures a playoff spot or dashes postseason aspirations.
The first two weeks of August nearly derailed the Ducks quest for a sixth straight Atlantic League playoff berth. But the subsequent fortnight is helping the Flock gain an edge of Bridgeport in the [...]

NEWARK, NJ – The hip bone is connected to the leg bone, and the leg bone is connected to the ankle bone.
Just like the structure of the human body, the anatomy of a losing streak is all connected and sometimes has a mind of its own.
After a 2-1 loss, the first of the season after [...]

The New Jersey Nets know things are getting down to the wire.
They know that things aren’t in their favor either.
In the middle of a four-game road trip, the Nets have already lost to Golden State a team that by all means they should have been able to defeat, but thanks in part to a [...]

NEWARK, NJ – There is nothing like a hockey team on a roll. When everything is clicking on offense and defense, the goalie is absolutely confident and the coach trusts his team to go out and just play, the results can be magical.
A spark of that magic was visible in Saturday afternoon’s 7-2 win by [...]

UNIONDALE, NY- The Islanders couldn’t steal a win to start 2009. But the Islanders closed out the year’s opening month with its first sustained momentum in an otherwise dismal season.
Yann Danis stopped 37 shots and was 1:27 away from picking up his first NHL shutout since 2005, making 16 first-period saves alone in a 3-1 [...]