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Islanders play improving

By Barry Melrose
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, December 18, 2003

Open Ice The New York Islanders started the season off well with a 7-3-2-0 record. Then because of the poor play of the team's two superstars Michael Peca and Alexei Yashin the team went into the tank until recently. In the NHL, a team can't have its two best players playing badly, and that's what was keeping them down. After that quick start, the Islanders fell to 9-13-2-0, but have bounced back because of the recent great play of Yashin and Peca. Before losing to the Flyers on Saturday, ...

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