SUNRISE, Fla. — The Islanders don’t but know — or aren’t but saying — how severe the accidents suffered by Mathew Barzal and Scott Mayfield on Saturday evening are.
However neither participant was within the lineup for Sunday’s 6-3 defeat to the Panthers, and all of the Islanders can do now could be wait and hope that neither participant joins an inventory of longer-term accidents that already contains Noah Dobson, Ryan Pulock, Marcus Hogberg and Semyon Varlamov.
None of these 4 are anticipated again earlier than the 4 Nations break.
Lou Lamoriello stated Saturday that Dobson and Pulock would start skating through the two-week layoff, with Hogberg anticipated to return on roughly a four-week timetable and Varlamov out indefinitely.
The organizational line concerning Barzal and Mayfield was that they’ll know extra on Monday.
Although, with the Islanders unlikely to observe following a back-to-back with journey dwelling, it appears unlikely that extra data might be forthcoming that quickly.
“You know what, injuries, it’s unfortunately part of the game,” coach Patrick Roy stated earlier than the sport as a crew spokesman repeated that they’d know extra tomorrow. “I remember when I was in Colorado, when we lost [Peter] Forsberg in that series against L.A. [in 2001], it was a moment for other guys to take the lead. It’s the same thing right now.”
The Islanders got here into Sunday driving a seven-game profitable streak, however have a slew of accidents.
Within the span of a pair weeks, all the proper facet of their protection corps has gotten damage, with Tony DeAngelo, Scott Perunovich and Adam Boqvist changing Dobson, Pulock and Mayfield.
Dennis Cholowski, a wholesome scratch in six of the previous seven video games, rejoined the lineup in Florida taking part in on the left facet of a pair with Boqvist.
Anthony Duclair, who missed Saturday’s time beyond regulation win over the Lightning with sickness, additionally got here again into the lineup and performed on the highest line instead of Barzal.
Each Barzal and Mayfield appeared to undergo leg accidents on Saturday.
Mayfield was conserving weight off his proper facet after crashing into the top boards and Barzal struggled to stand up after blocking Darren Raddysh’s shot off his kneecap at five-on-six.
Barzal already missed 21 video games this season with an undisclosed upper-body harm.
Mayfield performed simply 50 video games final season and underwent surgical procedure after breaking his left ankle whereas blocking a shot on opening evening.
With Jakub Skarek being the fourth goaltender to begin a recreation for the Islanders this season, it was the primary time since 2015-16 that the membership used that many netminders.
Thomas Greiss, Jaroslav Halak, Jean-Francois Berube and Christopher Gibson had been the 4 that season.
