Bruins, Islanders, and a Cruel Mistress Named Fate

Andrew Ference, Patrice Bergeron, Phil Kessel, and Marco Sturm appear to be out for a while longer...   ...Aaron Ward, Milan Lucic, and Manny Fernandez are in and out depending on use and abuse...   ...and the Bruins keep rolling forward.   Meanwhile, in New York’s wine country, Doug Weight, Mike Sillinger, Rick DiPietro, Andy Sutton, Freddy Meyers, Andy Hilbert, and Joey MacDonald are all out of commission...   ...And the Islanders are rolling...backward.   As a Bruins fan, you just gotta love momentum, drive, and Marianas-trench quality of player depth.   As an Islanders fan, you just gotta love John Tavares.   Don’t get me wrong, I’m not someone who is gloating over the Islanders' predicament (we can leave that to the Rangers fans). I’m just pointing out the difference in this year’s version of the NHL food chain.   The Islanders have decades of losing productive and promising players, a ... (link)