The unusual messaging following Islanders into season comes with giant caveat

Source: New York Post

TORONTO — It’s easy to exercise cautious optimism after everything goes right in training camp. It’s harder to strike an appropriate tone when the last few days of preseason were rough enough that people in the organization started to feel uneasy.   “I will tell you, when I come into teams, it doesn’t happen immediately and it takes a while,” Islanders coach Pete DeBoer said Saturday night.