(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Top Comments: Losing Streaks Broken Edition [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-17 Because the New York Islanders first general manager, who built the team that won four consecutive Stanley Cups, was a big believer in beginning a new season on the road for team cohesiveness, the Islanders have rarely opened their season at home. In fact, prior to Saturday, the Islanders have only had 11 home games as their first game of the season and 8 of them came in the 21st century. superstitions are rampant in sports. LOL Out of those 11 games, the Islanders have only won 2 of them which is good enough for the second worst record in the NHL of teams that have played more than 3 season opener home games. Their last win, the second one, was all the way back in the lockout shortened 94-95 season when they beat the Florida Panthers. Since then they have lost 8 straight though 3 of those loses were after regulation. I also have a personal losing streak with games that began when the team moved to their current home at Belmont Park. My sister and I were looking for a place to eat before games and found a bbq joint about a mile from the arena. We decided to make it our place to go for the first and last regular season game every year. While the food there is fantastic, the Isles have not won a game when we ate there before the game. We have eaten there 6 times all losses. Considering the length of time between the first ever home game at Belmont back in Nov 2021 and the final game of the 21-22 season in mid April, the owner still remembered us from our first visit. That was nice. We went back on Saturday fully expecting our and the Isles futility to continue. Shockingly, the opposite happened, and the Isles won; not that they didn’t make it stressful. They finished a very well played first period up 2-0 and looking like a completely different team from last season even with the lineup being virtually the same. The second period brought us back to reality looking like the team we all know and love/hate. Part way through the third, the Isles gave up the game tying goal on a terrible defensive shift. Thankfully, the 5 players on the ice for the tying goal found a way to score with about 6 minutes left redeeming themselves and getting the team a 3-2 win; thus breaking the team’s losing streak of opening night games at home and my personal streak of losing when eating at the bbq restuarant. What does this mean for the rest of the season? Who knows. I do know we are back at again tonight against Arizona. LGI! Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. 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