Hear from the #Isles after practice on the Island.
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) December 12, 2025
Roy is selling day to day but it looked long-term as in season with Horvat/we'll see. For now Drouin returns, and Heineman returns to where he did all his scoring on RW before Roy for no reason moved him to LW, and he reverted to a fringe checking forward. Makes no sense, same as Holmstrom bounces from LW-RW, and country club members-only Pageau was moved to the top line with his stone hands, and Tsyplakov never met a bench Roy did not put him on.
I used x/twitter for Ducks game/oddest one of the ssn with Ducks soft in middle, and NY not getting fancy + got one game a ssn bounces for Mitchell/Lee/Pulock in a game that ran 15 minutes longer with endless whistles. I'll take the wins, but they easily could have been down 3-0 at the end of the first, and played a much better second/third. The NHL's worst ice claimed Horvat as players and pucks stick to it like glue.
Now we see Tampa's skill show who slaughtered New Jersey 8-4, and look different/better with injuries. Name of the game is stay in the race, and at this time New York is in a solid spot, keep winning, will be ups downs. Horvat out? Problem sure, but this offense goes through Schaefer's puck distribution, he's generational, as Horvat said, changed everything. Norris, Hart should be on the table for him, even with the rare mistake on the goal the powerplay again allowed.
I wrote about Lafontaine when it was announced, nothing new to add.