Nobody wanted a pandemic. But the Islanders certainly needed a reset.
Training camp 2.0, which starts Monday at the team’s practice facility in East Meadow, represents a chance for the Islanders to shake off the inconsistency that marked much of their play from Thanksgiving through March 12, when the season was placed on pause in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The four months since their last game — the Islanders were on an 0-3-4 slide after losing a 5-4 shootout in Vancouver on March 10 — has allowed top-pair defenseman Adam Pelech (Achilles tendon), center Casey Cizikas (left leg laceration) and defenseman Johnny Boychuk (left eye) to heal.