Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 20 times, well…
Thanksgiving (America’s Version) is on Thursday. One of the many traditions around this time of year is watching the Peanuts Thanksgiving special—you know the one. It’s most famous for the bit of Lucy holding the football for “Chuck” Charlie Brown to kick, and yanking it away at the last second every time and causing him to fly up and fall on his back. Chuck never learns; he falls for it several times, and the audience says “Oh how does he keep falling for it?”
This scene is so famous that “It’s like Charlie Brown and the football” (or some variation thereof) has come into common American parlance for a situation where you observe someone make the same mistake over and over again, but they can’t figure out why. You say it and the listener usually knows exactly what you mean.
Watching the Islanders is like Charlie Brown and the football.
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Recaps:
- One of Yogi Berra’s most famous Yogisms applies here. [LHH]
- Groundhog Day is another reference many Islanders fans, writers, and commentators have used to great success. [Post]
- Old habits die hard. [THN]
- They played well to start but still blew it, so who cares? Isaiah George got his first NHL point on a nice pass-off-pad shot, which is actually cool. [Islanders | Newsday]
- How they didn’t call that late-game boarding penalty on Ben Chiarot until after the scrum ensued and negated it with a “double-minor for roughing” escapes me. The Islanders were hot, too. But if you didn’t already blow the damn lead, it might not have mattered. [Post]
- The Skinny is always fun to read after games like these; the Islanders find new and exciting levels of infamy.
Another 5 or so PP goals likely results in another 5 wins, 10 points lets say, which would have the #Isles sitting close to top of Metro… https://t.co/ozrJk5n73g
— Stefen Rosner (@stefen_rosner) November 26, 2024
More:
- But hey, at least they’re really good on faceoffs. [Islanders]
- Anthony Duclair and Adam Pelech have resumed skating on their own. [THN]
- When the Islanders blew leads under Lane Lambert, they’d get caved in the entire game, so it made sense. But it is truly remarkable how Patrick Roy revamped the system and vastly improved the team’s underlying numbers and the same thing still happens every time. [THN]
- Brock Nelson converted the rebound on George’s shot to take ninth place on the Islanders’ all-time points list all for his own. Even if this is his last season with the only club he’s ever known, his legacy is cemented—one of my favorite Islanders of all time, so consistent since the Barry Trotz era. [Newsday] I know the team probably needs a change, and Nelson, a UFA at season’s end, would be coveted at the trade deadline, but I selfishly don’t want to see him in another uniform.
Elsewhere
Last night’s NHL scores include the Blues dominating the Rangers on the road to get a win in Jim Montgomery’s first game as bench boss, and the Golden Knights erasing a 3-0 deficit to beat the Flyers in the shootout.