DALLAS — Patrick Roy is simply as shocked by the OMG Mets as the remainder of New York.
Although the Islanders head coach admits baseball isn’t his forte, he’s nicely conscious of the Mets’ turnaround from being 11 video games underneath .500 to creating the NLCS and has adopted because the group made the playoffs on the final day of the season earlier than beating the Brewers and Phillies in a pair of dramatic collection.
“My point is, what a turnaround they did,” Roy instructed reporters Friday earlier than the Islanders flew to Dallas for his or her first street journey of the season. “I think they’re a good example for a lot of sports teams: It is possible to turn things around. Going into the playoffs and winning. After being on the road in Milwaukee, won those games, and then going into Philly [who] was supposedly supposed to win that series. Great for them. I think everybody here in New York is proud of them.”
The Mets will open the NLCS on the street Sunday in opposition to the Dodgers, who beat the Padres 2-0 in Recreation 5 on Friday night time to advance.
Roy is just not the one Islander to get caught up within the baseball postseason.
Casey Cizikas was in attendance for Recreation 3 of the Mets-Phillies collection at Citi Discipline on Tuesday, importing a photograph to his Instagram story and exhibiting off video of the group to teammates within the dressing room on Wednesday.
Roy additionally gave a shoutout to the Yankees, who concluded the ALDS with a win over the Royals on Thursday night time, making it the primary time since 2000 that each New York groups have been amongst baseball’s last 4.
“I’m like everybody,” Roy mentioned. “Everybody dreams to see the Mets against the Yankees, isn’t it?”
The three-game journey to Dallas, Colorado and St. Louis, throughout which the Islanders will face final 12 months’s Central Division champs (the Avalanche) and a Western Convention Finalist (the Stars) presents an instantaneous take a look at after a disappointing loss within the season opener Thursday night time.
“This is the schedule, let’s not find excuses for whatever it is,” Roy mentioned. “Let’s go out there and play our games and play the right way. That’s exactly what Utah did [Thursday] night.”
Semyon Varlamov is predicted to begin in aim in opposition to the Stars on Saturday, with Roy saying he had but to speak to Lou Lamoriello or coach Damien Hess about Ilya Sorokin’s standing.
