ANAHEIM, Calif. — The streak is dead. For real this time. And instead of marveling at the 15-0-2 run, Barry Trotz has plenty of evidence to present at Tuesday’s practice on how the Islanders let the streak go without much fight.



“It’s hard to be hungry when you’re full, and we had a lot of guys who were full,” Trotz told MSG Network after Monday’s 3-0 loss to the Ducks, the Islanders’ first regulation loss in 45 days.



It’s also hard to throw your hands up and lament the zero-point night too much, given the remarkable run that just ended. This Islanders team, trying to build off of last season’s surprising, 103-point regular season and second-round playoff loss, changed very little in the offseason and appeared to be right back where they were entering 2018-19 — a team that needed to defy the metrics and the projections once again.



It took them all of a month to do it, starting with a shootout...