Mathieu Darche addresses reporters during a May 29 press conference. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post

Game 26 of the Islanders’ season was typical, insofar as it told us little about the Islanders that we did not already know.

The Islanders were clean in their own end, giving up fewer than 20 shots for the third time in four games; they had the better chances but got just one past Logan Thompson and did not generate enough traffic around the crease; they felt they deserved far better than a 4-1 loss to the Capitals and were, mostly, correct to feel that way. These are all things we’ve seen before. They are all things Mathieu Darche has seen before.

The question for the rookie general manager, though, is how he’ll react to a nightmare 10-day stretch over which the Islanders have lost four

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