Barry Trotz has been through coaching an expansion franchise and helped get a Washington Capitals franchise over the hump into being a Stanley Cup-winning team, but the current situation he finds himself in right now has taken the cake.

The New York Islanders dropped their eighth straight game and were shut out for the second time in a week. They are last in the Metropolitan Division and COVID decimated a roster that had already been struggling this season. To say that things have changed six months removed from their trip to the Stanley Cup Semifinals last season would be an understatement.

And Trotz