.: 12/01/2021 - 01/01/2022

New York Notables

#Isles News: The Islanders games on Jan. 4 (@ SEA), Jan. 5 (@ VAN), Jan. 8 (@ EDM) and Jan. 11 (@ CGY) have been postponed. The games will be rescheduled for dates later this season.
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 31, 2021

More details ⬇️https://t.co/8XTV0YSbbB
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 31, 2021

New York vs Buffalo: Trotz comments/Covid & Recalls

#Isles Transactions: Cal Clutterbuck, Matt Martin, Zach Parise and Robin Salo have been removed from the team’s COVID-19 list. Sebastian Aho has been placed in COVID-19 protocol.
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 30, 2021

Cole Bardreau, Austin Czarnik and Michael Dal Colle have been recalled from the team’s taxi squad. Grant Hutton has been recalled from Bridgeport. Kyle Palmieri (lower body) has been placed on the team’s IR list (retro Dec. 16).
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 30, 2021

🎥 Trotz Game Day Availability 🎥 pic.twitter.com/ZEsHnflkRX
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 30, 2021

The math says it all.

#NYI #isles Here we are all these teams for what is only Detroit's playoff spot with Boston and Flyers well ahead of New York and Pittsburgh off the radar entirely. pic.twitter.com/ZymTdP0Mdh
— #22 New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 30, 2021

Wings game cancelled/Nelson Covid

And the beat goes on. Bridgeport also has eight players out.

The @NHL and @NHLPA agree to modify COVID Protocol. https://t.co/hiVXTfyaAX pic.twitter.com/QJOeM9nRfq
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) December 29, 2021

More Covid For New York/Lamoriello

#Isles News: Anthony Beauvillier, Cal Clutterbuck, Zach Parise and Oliver Wahlstrom have been placed in COVID-19 protocol. The team has assigned three players to the taxi squad: Cole Bardreau, Simon Holmstrom and Grant Hutton.
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 26, 2021

Lou Lamoriello's media availability⬇️ pic.twitter.com/jm2FcITFu5
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 26, 2021

Monday Cancelled by NHL-12/29 vs Detroit next stop

New York will not be traveling to Buffalo for a game on 12/27, their next scheduled game will on 12/29 in New York vs the Red Wings, with 12/27 to be made up at a later date.

Merry Christmas

No Olympics

NHL players won't participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics after surge of coronavirus cases and its schedule stoppage https://t.co/OGNI6exZs7
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 21, 2021

NYIFC Comments:

Expect a lot of makeup games for New York that likely will be meaningless unless so many games are cancelled they need another play in tournament.

NHL/New York Shutdown Again

The @NHL and @NHLPA have agreed to begin the Holiday Break after Tuesday’s games. Practices will resume on Dec. 26 and the League’s regular-season schedule will resume on Dec. 27. https://t.co/0Bmu8dlZ1M pic.twitter.com/JHbxtzMX6D
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) December 21, 2021

NYIFC Comments:

The failed Belmont experiment not being ready took a big bite of a bad team, road trip or no road trip, then Belmont management wanted those paydays (and likely our tenant owners) so those games were not cancelled. Now we have a team so far out of any realistic contention (for just one seed) it really does not matter, unless the NHL changes it's playoff format again later on. I do not see Olympic games and a different schedule for February with many of these cancelled games in those three weeks.

New York's next scheduled game is 12/27/21 in Buffalo.

Barzal In Covid Protocol

#Isles Update: Mat Barzal has been placed in COVID protocol.
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 14, 2021

The Failed Belmont Experiment

#Isles Update: Mat Barzal has been placed in COVID protocol.
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 14, 2021

#NYI #isles Never saw a new arena open so poorly. Late, no introducing the team, remove patch almost immediately from jersey's, never even show lockeroom, don't have practice or game day there, empty seats everywhere, parking nightmare not going away, been a failed experiment.
— #22 New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 14, 2021

#NYI #isles Things are only going to get worse at Belmont, fans won't pay those prices again, beyond padded numbers, south lot will become value retail, and garage will take forever to get out of when it opens in March, plus a hotel has to be built with no land left at the site.
— #22 New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 14, 2021

#NYI #isles When push came to shove winning was not the priority at Belmont, getting those paydays was because it would have been a financial disaster to refund the huge money paid out which won't be seen again at Belmont. 1/2.
— #22 New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 14, 2021

#NYI #isles Dolan's guys Leiweke/Azoff, & Wilpon & even likely our owners wanted that revenue even if NYI lost. Belmont's done nothing but cost our team a season and been a failed experiment that won't play another Sat night game so no more visiting teams fans. 2/2
— #22 New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 14, 2021

Reality Check For New York

#NYI #isles That's playoff reality for New York and frankly it's terrible because they can't gain on Boston. pic.twitter.com/tuSml9aq5P
— #22 New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 12, 2021

#NYI #isles Next stop Detroit again on Tuesday then back to neutral ground in Belmont for what is really a must in regulation vs Boston.
— #22 New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 12, 2021

Golyshev speaks out/losing continues

The Russian forward Anatoli #Golyshev speaked with the media outlet @hockey_se about his experience with @NYIslanders of #NHL. #Isles #HockeyTwitter #IslesNation pic.twitter.com/8l1UVWNg8I
— KHL TALK (@vorkywh24) December 10, 2021

NYIFC Comments:

It's disappointing he did not get a chance here because he was scoring early in Bridgeport, and looked too good for that league. Trotz made clear other players in practice looked better then him so the same journeyman played ahead of him, even with the team in free fall before and after Covid. My comments on twitter speak to where I sit with the team on the ice, and what I wrote during the 56 games/last summer for two months. Sadly, I was correct.

Anatolii Golyshev Returning to KHL (cleared NHL waivers)

But we got to see Parise score no goals for close to 20 games, same for Palmieri, same for Pageau until the last two games, and of course we got to see Bellows barely play so a lot of AHL/NHL journeyman at best could be in the lineup.

#NYI #isles I'm not a fan of the Golyshev move when Parise's has given them nothing, but he was never going to play over Martin, Johnston, Beauvillier, Bellows and all the journeyman callups he may be better then, not to mention Dal Colle when he's ready.
— #22 New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 9, 2021

New York Returns Thursday vs San Jose

🎥 Barry Trotz Practice Availability 🎥 pic.twitter.com/6wIsBSvXSN
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 1, 2021

The @NYIslanders have been cleared to resume their 2021-22 schedule and will contest their next regularly-scheduled game, Thursday, Dec. 2.https://t.co/ZXHuIrzLfP pic.twitter.com/2qApnCWxcX
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) December 1, 2021

NYIFC Comments:

No way the Sharks were coming back here again, or was the NHL going to lose another early UBS payday before attendance/secondary market start dropping. For players in hibernation one practice is not enough for only a few players whether they were sick or not.

And even healthy there is no hiding this teams issues which 13 road games made very clear which the standings proved out.

#NYI #isles New York for those living in their own reality need 86 of 130 points remaining to finish with 98 points. Given struggles/age/lack of speed/scoring that's simply not possible. They can only afford 21 losses in 65 games. In other words 44 games over 500.
— #22 New York Islander Fan Central (@NYIFANCENTRAL) December 1, 2021