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We won’t know for sure where this season — the final one in Nassau County — is headed until two months from now. But all indications point towards a top seed in the Eastern Conference and more than a fighting chance at the organization’s first playoff series win since 1993. If and when that happens, there will be one man absent from the dressing room that had a huge hand in getting these Islanders to that point. We knew him simply as “Nabby.â€
In so many ways, Evgeni Nabokov was perfectly emblematic of many players’ and fans’ attitude towards the franchise in the waning days of 2011. But, as so often happens around this team, reluctance quickly became adoration....