The Islanders host the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday night on Long Island with a couple more lineup updates.
Marshall Warren has been returned to Bridgeport, which — along with yesterday’s practice — would seem to indicate another run of Adam Boqvist on his offhand on the third pair with Scott Mayfield.
And Bo Horvat, as expected, is out after leaving the Mammoth loss injured. Patrick Roy said he won’t play “this week” so hopefully that means a shorter term on the shelf, though maybe it means they’re trying to avoid surgery but won’t know until whatever he hurt has a chance to calm down.
Finally, Ilya Sorokin is “available,” as they say in the Premier League, and will back up David Rittich.
Beyond all that, there is the matter that the Islanders have gone eight games without scoring more than two goals, leading to some line shuffling by Patrick Roy yesterday:
The Leafs are coming off a big comeback — three goals down — win over the Jets, where Auston Matthews had a hat trick to pass Pat LaFontaine for most hat tricks by an American. The Leafs have rebounded lately to climb to two points shy of the wild card in the East’s Crapola Soup, but they are again without Chris Tanev.