What??!! Noooo...Don't tell me the newly emancipated Islanders lost WITHOUT Mike's help! Can it be??
Of course it can, you goofesses, just like I told you! It was only a matter of time. The Isles highly embarrassing 9-2 loss to the Senators (which Marc Berman called a "scoring orgy") 2 nights ago proved that. Even Golden Boy Bill Stewart said, "In hockey, sometimes you fall in love with yourself and when you do, you don't win too many hockey games." Well, duh, Einstein. Hopefully, Mike is sitting comfortably somewhere laughing his keister off. I know I was.
Since Mike had nothing to with this debacle, what can we blame it on? Hmmm....Oh, I know! The Potvin/Berard trade! Yes, let's drudge that up again; after all, we can't let Mike get away that easy (even though the Mikeage has steered clear of the team since his resignation and is heading to California for a GM meeting as we speak)! But leave it up to the ever-cynical and frequently fickle sportswriters to beat a dead horse just so they don't have to admit they were wrong. They are gonna make sure Mike looks like the bad guy forever as long as the Isles keep losing. How utterly pathetic.