The New York Islanders look to rebound from their opening night loss and pick up their first win of the season tonight when they host the Winnipeg Jets. Here’s the pre-game report.
According to The Winnipeg Sun’s Ted Wyman, the Islanders’ projected lines are:
Lee - Barzal- Eberle
Dal Colle - Nelson - Bailey
Beauvillier - Brassard - Komarov
Martin - Cizikas - Clutterbuck
Pelech - Pulock
Toews - Mayfield
Leddy - Boychuk
Greiss
Varlamov
Thomas Greiss is the expected starter for the Islanders. It also looks like Noah Dobson will be scratched again (and I am very against New York going this route).
Here are Winnipeg’s lines,
according to NHL.com’s Cory Wright.
Ehlers - Scheifele - Wheeler
Connor - Copp - Laine
Bourque - Lowry - Letestu
Perreault - Roslovic - Appleton
Morrissey - Kulikov
Heinola - Pionk
Bitetto - Poolman
Brossoit
Hellebuyck
Winnipeg lost their first game against the Rangers on Thursday before squeaking out of New Jersey with an overtime victory on Friday. The Jets’ defense is certainly significantly weaker than where we saw it last year. Out are Dustin Byfuglien, Tyler Myers and Jacob Trouba. Laurent Brossoit is expected to get into his second game of the season.
Bringing this back from last year, for each pre-game report I’ll try to do an overperformers and underperformers section. This looks at who, on either team, historically overperforms or underperforms against the specific opponent they’re playing in the upcoming game and what their career stats are against the team (and you’ll definitely want to take a look at Anders Lee’s stats versus Winnipeg).
OVERPERFORMERS
NYI- Mathew Barzal has four goals and five points in four games vs WPG.
NYI- Leo Komarov has seven points in 13 games vs WPG.
NYI- Nick Leddy has eight points in 15 games vs WPG.
NYI- Anders Lee has 11 goals, 16 points and is a plus-11 in 12 games vs WPG.
NYI- Ryan Pulock has four points in five games vs WPG.
WPG- Kyle Connor has four points in four games vs NYI.
WPG- Adam Lowry has six goals and nine points in 10 games vs NYI.
WPG Neal Pionk has four points in five games vs NYI.
UNDERPERFORMERS
NYI- Casey Cizikas has two points in 13 games vs WPG.
NYI- Cal Clutterbuck has three points in 16 games vs WPG.
WPG- Gabriel Bourque has zero points in eight games vs NYI.
WGP- Andrew Copp has zero points in seven games vs NYI.
WPG- Patrik Laine has zero goals and three points in six games vs NYI.
WPG- Josh Morrissey has zero points in four games and is a minus-four vs NYI.
GOALTENDING
NYI: Thomas Greiss is 4-2-1 with a .907 save percentage in his career vs WPG.
WPG: Laurent Brossoit has never played against the Islanders.
Puck drop is at 7 p.m.
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