The New York Islanders lost one of their more important pieces to an injury. Valtteri Filppula is the Islanders third line center and he will now be out for at least a month with his most recent injury putting the Isles in a rough spot.
If you told me at the start of the year that Filppula would have that much of an impact on the Islanders I wouldn’t have believed you. But the Islanders don’t have center depth and now it will be exposed.
Tanner Fritz got the call-up to replace Filppula.