Well folks, if this wasn’t the eulogy, consider it the last rites: the 2016-17 New York Islanders may not be dead yet (mathematically) but ain’t no way they’re coming back from this.
Thomas Hickey keeps getting healthy scratched for some reason, though it’s possible he’s still nursing the injury that kept him out a couple weeks back in January. Still, if Doug Weight feels Dennis Seidenberg is a better option, there’s an issue. Scott Mayfield sat again while Adam Pelech stayed in.
But the big news on ‘D:’ the return of Johnny Boychuk. He took Hickey’s spot, and with his return, Weight trotted him out with Nick Leddy, while Calvin de Haan stuck with Travis Hamonic.