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New York Islanders

23 reports in the 2026-27 edition.

Mathew Barzal

Mathew Barzal

#13

C · New York Islanders

Fifty-three assists, and a club that could not finish them.

Ethan Bear

Ethan Bear

#74

D · New York Islanders

Two hundred and seventy-five games, and none in the last two seasons.

Casey Cizikas

Casey Cizikas

#53

C · New York Islanders

Nine hundred and seventy-eight games in one uniform, and half his shots from the paint.

Tony DeAngelo

Tony DeAngelo

#77

D · New York Islanders

Thirty assists from the blue line, and a penalty kill that finished last.

Anthony Duclair

Anthony Duclair

#11

LW · New York Islanders

The third percentile in expected goals, and a hundred and sixty-five career goals.

Emil Heineman

Emil Heineman

#51

LW · New York Islanders

Twenty-two goals and nine assists, which is one of the strangest splits in this book.

Simon Holmstrom

Simon Holmstrom

#92

RW · New York Islanders

Nineteen goals from a first-round pick who took four years to arrive.

Bo Horvat

Bo Horvat

#14

C · New York Islanders

Thirty-one goals, and three hundred career ones.

Matthew Kessel

Matthew Kessel

#51

D · New York Islanders

Ninety-nine games across four seasons, and three goals.

Matias Maccelli

Matias Maccelli

#63

LW · New York Islanders

Minus twenty-three, and a hundred and eighteen career assists.

32

Kyle MacLean

C · New York Islanders

Undrafted, a hundred and seventy-two games, and forty penalty minutes from the fourth line.

Scott Mayfield

Scott Mayfield

#24

D · New York Islanders

Eighty-three penalty minutes, two goals, and a median shot from fifty-five feet.

Jean-Gabriel Pageau

Jean-Gabriel Pageau

#44

C · New York Islanders

Four penalty minutes in seventy-four games, and half his shots from inside twenty feet.

Ondrej Palat

Ondrej Palat

#81

LW · New York Islanders

Nine hundred and five games, two Stanley Cups, and thirty-one goals for against fifty-four.

Kyle Palmieri

Kyle Palmieri

#21

C · New York Islanders

Nine hundred and twenty-five games, and a median shot from fifteen feet.

Adam Pelech

Adam Pelech

#3

D · New York Islanders

Six hundred and forty-two games, thirty goals, and the eighty-second percentile in possession.

Ryan Pulock

Ryan Pulock

#6

D · New York Islanders

Six hundred and thirty-six games, and the twenty-second percentile in the second-most minutes.

64

Calum Ritchie

C · New York Islanders

Thirteen goals at twenty, and nine points in his last ten.

48

Matthew Schaefer

D · New York Islanders

Nineteen years old, twenty-four minutes a night, twenty-three goals, and fifteen hundred five-on-five minutes.

Brayden Schenn

Brayden Schenn

#10

C · New York Islanders

Eleven hundred and two games, and a minus-twenty-eight.

Ilya Sorokin

Ilya Sorokin

#30

G · New York Islanders

Twenty goals better than the chances he faced, on the league's worst penalty kill.

Vitek Vanecek

Vitek Vanecek

#41

G · New York Islanders

A .8834, in front of the same defence that made Sorokin look like an All-Star.

Semyon Varlamov

Semyon Varlamov

#40

G · New York Islanders

Six hundred and twenty-one games at a career .9156, and none last season.

How they were used

2025-26 · 82 games

Measured from shift charts at five-on-five, not projected. Units are built from the strongest partnership outward and ordered by how much they were used; the percentage is the share of the first player’s five-on-five ice time spent alongside each linemate. A low number means the club never settled on a combination. Players who have gone are marked — either to another club, or off an NHL roster altogether, which covers retirement and an unsigned summer alike.

Forwards

First line

Second line

L Anders Lee now UTA 1080m

Third line

Fourth line

C Marc Gatcomb now VGK 49%

Defence

First pair

Second pair

Third pair

D Carson Soucy off the roster 20%

Goaltending

By games played

G David Rittich now NJD 30 GP
G Marcus Hogberg off the roster 1 GP