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Critics still getting after Tavares, Isles

It's not as if the Islanders are cruising to a playoff berth, or even close enough to contention to be worthy of a lot of attention around the hockey world. The last four seasons, most of the attention has been negative, especially last season, in the wake of Scott Gordon's firing, a 1-17-3 streak that essentially eliminated them before Christmas and Evgeni Nabokov's refusal to report after a waiver...

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