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Gordon: “We’ve lost a bit of our edge...”

Islanders coach Scott Gordon has no explanation for it, really. And most certainly, no fast cure.

The aggressive, stubborn resolve he witnessed on the ice just months ago, is slowly deflating.

“Right now, I think a part of it is we’ve lost a little bit of edge to our game, that tenacity, that relentlessness that we had, the pace that at which we played at it,” Gordon...

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