Newsday's Islanders reporter Andrew Gross discusses the team's first day of training camp on Monday, Jan. 4, 2020, including which players have reported for camp, who didn't make it to the ice and what they need to do to get where they expect to be this season. Credit: Video: Corey Sipkin; Photo: Corey Sipkin, Jim McIssac, Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
These are not normal training camps, by the usual NHL standards, as teams prepare for a sprint of a truncated regular season without any preseason games. But the Islanders had success with an altered format this past summer after the COVID-19 pandemic forced a four-month shutdown, reaching the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 1993.