The hangover (hopefully not) from the Islanders’ raucous and absurd 9-0 romp over the New Jersey Devils Tuesday has hopefully subsided as they begin the first stop in a season-longest seven-game road trip tonight in Nashville.
They’ll presumably continue without Bo Horvat in the lineup, though he is skating and on the road trip with the team.
Of all the trivia that came out of that singular night, maybe the most depressing was this, per NHL media and the team’s post-game notes: “The last time the Islanders had two or more hat tricks in a single season was 1993-94 (Pierre Turgeon and Derek King).” Anthony Duclair’s adds to Bo Horvat’s earlier this year to make two in 2025-26.
Mathieu Darche on the Daily Faceoff podcast. For your sanity, his appearance begins after the 7-minute mark. For me the most gratifying part was frank recognition of why the team should, you know, provide more media/social access for fans in a market with a dozen other pro sports teams: