Last week in Denver, the Islanders hung with the eminently terrifying Avalanche before giving it up in the third period. Tonight they’ll get a chance to try again — not for any meaningful mistakes, mind you, but for the friends they made along the way.
By the looks of reports from the morning skate, Ilya Sorokin will get the start, Anders Lee will be back in the lineup (but Zdeno Chara and Mathew Barzal remain out), and the lines may be...different:
Things I think I saw at #Isles morning skate (eyes turning 55 soon)
Beauvillier-Nelson-Bailey
Bellows-Pageau-Palmieri
Lee-Parise-Wahlstrom
Martin-Cizikas-Clutterbuck
Pelech-Pulock
Greene-Dobson
Aho-Mayfield
Sorokin in the starter’s net.