Islanders see Schenn as a center<\/a>, a second-line center, pushing Calum Ritchie to the wing. That might be a subtle improvement as Ritchie adjusts in his rookie season at age 20, but it\u2019s also asking too much a lot of Schenn, who was frequently moved to wing with the Blues over the past few seasons. With the matchups, and J-G Pageau taking on some assignments, maybe it\u2019s more like they have two third lines.<\/p>\n\u201cYou should see the texts we got from former players, players that have been with him,\u201d says Mathieu Darche in the media availability scrum below. This does not surprise me at all; I\u2019m a fan of Schenn\u2019s game at its peak and his approach even today. The challenge and fear is that was yesteryear. Former players are former players for a reason. Schenn probably gets, and delivers, a boost down the stretch here in this new environment, and freed from the burden of captaining a team that was in full identity crisis.<\/p>\n
The impact on following seasons is, again, for another day.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of this hotel interview about leaving the Blues, Schenn talks a little bit about excitement for the team and opportunity he\u2019s joining \u2014 and later, about he and his brother Luke fielding \u201cprobably 45 calls\u201d since 11 p.m. the night before discussing possible trade destinations and logistics with family:<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how they may line up tonight:<\/p>\n
And Schenn on the power play, too. He\u2019s a smart player who still has hands, so\u2026well, surely he can\u2019t make the PP any worse?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m actually curious to see if the Isles ever use Schenn in 3-on-3 overtime. You wouldn\u2019t think it from his speed at this age, but he can be effective and finish coming down the wing in that role.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a laaaaate start tonight, 10 p.m. EST \u2014 and EDT starts tomorrow, you\u2019ll lose an hour! \u2014 but I know we\u2019ll all be curious to see how they look and do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 New York Islanders begin the rest of their season with a roster that has three veterans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[26255,5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-491903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-bits-o-islanders-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-islanders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkislanders","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116189781016706687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}