Tonight marks the first of 41 Islanders home games and first of 21 games at Barclays Center. The Nashville Predators, who opened their season with a 3-2 win at Madison Square Garden, are the visitors. Hopefully we don’t get too sick of them, because we’ll see them in a week.
It appears coach Barry Trotz will be rolling out the same unit as the one that got shellacked by the Hurricanes, albeit in a victory, against the first NHL team he ever coached (and this iteration of the Preds is also quite capable of a shellacking):
No changes at #Isles morning skate
Beauvillier-Barzal-Bailey
Lee-Nelson-Eberle
Martin-Cizikas-Clutterbuck
Komarov-Filppula-Fritz
Pelech-Pulock
Hickey-Leddy
Sbisa-Boychuk
And, yes, Bailey is skating this morning.