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Unsurprisingly in the lead up to this game, all the media attention for the New York Islanders was on rookie phenom Matthew Schaefer, who is from Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up going to Toronto Maple Leafs games. Blah, blah, you’ve heard it all before. But it would be a different rookie from the Toronto area […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 1 day ago | 0 reads
The New York Islanders are solidifying their blueline for years to come. The Isles announced on Tuesday, they've signed former first-round pick Kashawn Aitcheson to a three-year, entry-level contract. Aitcheson is known as one of the best defenceman outside the NHL and is notoriously a bone-crushing defender, who isn't afraid to step up and lay huge hits in open ice. The 19-year-old blueliner leads all Ontario Hockey League (OHL) defensemen in goals (28), power-play goals (15), points (70) and...
From NHL Trade Rumors | 1 day ago | 1 read
The New York Islanders went pretty close to all in this season, as rookie sensation Matthew Schaefer is certainly accelerating the expectations. Schaefer's burst onto the scene and pushed management to sell off some assets ahead of the trade deadline, and expect to see the Isles pushing to make some noise in the Stanley Cup Playoffs This offseason, there's inevitably going to be roster turnover, regardless of the outcomes this spring. Here's three Islanders who aren't expected back next season...
From NHL Trade Rumors | 1 day ago | 0 reads
Back by (popular?) demand, we’ll try to have game thread posts that are separate from the morning thread and any other posts. Ideally, this is to help people riff in-the-moment (hilarious, heated, or otherwise) while not having the emotional reactions get confused in the morning/daytime threads. You know, like once upon a time. The Islanders […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 2 days ago | 0 reads
The Matthews Schaefer experience.
From Pension Plan Puppets | 2 days ago | 0 reads
Mike and Dan recap a week of good and bad for the Islanders, and set up what could be a massive Canadian road trip and a home game against the Blue Jackets next Sunday. A contest in St. Louis with a lot of weird connections ended being the most Rangers-like win we’ve seen in some […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 3 days ago | 2 reads
As the Pittsburgh Penguins begin to enter the homestretch of the regular season, the team appears poised to return to the NHL’s postseason for the first time since 2022. With sixteen games left to play in the season, the Penguins sit tied with the New York Islanders for second place in the NHL’s Metropolitan Division […]
From PensBurgh | 3 days ago | 1 read
The Islanders begin their last road “trip” of the regular season as they head north of the border for visits to tanking Toronto and still playoff-holding Montreal and playoff-hopeful Ottawa. After this trip, they’ll finish with 10 of 12 games at home and only single-game trips to make up those two away games in Buffalo […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 3 days ago | 0 reads
For the third Islanders game in a row, a team got out to a 3-0 lead and had trouble holding it. This time, however, the Islanders — after lamenting their slow starts — got that early lead only to make things tough on themselves in the third. Still, they hung on for the two points […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 5 days ago | 1 read
The Islanders really need to not mess this up. The second-worst team in the league (even worse than the Rangers) is in town and the Isles need the points in the very tight Eastern Conference playoff race. David Rittich will get the start, so hopefully he and the skaters in front of him recapture their […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 5 days ago | 0 reads
The Islanders kicked off an important mini-homestand with their second loss to the Los Angeles Kings in eight days. This one was closer than the deceptive 5-3 loss in Los Angeles, but it didn’t look headed that way when the Isles fell behind 3-0 in the first period. That’s the second game in a row […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 6 days ago | 1 read
The Islanders are back home for a back-to-back, starting with what will hopefully be a vengeance match against the Los Angeles Kings. Coach Patrick Roy has made some line adjustments, putting newcomer Brayden Schenn with Mathew Barzal instead of with Calum Ritchie, the center who his arrival bumped to the wing. Personally, it’s the Palat-Schenn […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 6 days ago | 1 read
With an extra day between games and preceding a rare home back-to-back, it’s a good day to sit back and relish the joy, the rarity and surreal fact that the Islanders are 10-0 in games decided in overtime this year. Mathew Barzal’s streaking goal in St. Louis was the latest addition to the chronicles, largely […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 7 days ago | 0 reads
The Islanders’ incredible overtime magic continued with their 10th OT winner of the season, this time built off the foundation of a three-goal comeback and a rare double-power-play conversion from a team whose power play can rarely shoot straight. Mat Barzal finished the 4-3 win in St. Louis, using his speed to wrongfoot forward Jordan […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 9 days ago | 1 read
The New York Islanders made a big addition at the trade deadline, landing veteran center Brayden Schenn from the St. Louis Blues in an 11th-hour deal just before the 3pm ET buzzer. Schenn had to be convinced by GM Mathieu Darche & head coach Patrick Roy, however, to waive his no-trade clause before the deal was consummated. The Islanders, as it turns out, didn't have the same luck with their own player, forward Anthony Duclair. According to insider David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period , h...
From NHL Trade Rumors | 9 days ago | 2 reads
The Islanders’ final out-of-time-zone road trip comes to a conclusion tonight in St. Louis, with a golden chance to go .500 on a four-game trip that began with a couple of stinkers in Southern California. The Blues are in the middle of a cratering season that has brought Brayden Schenn to Long Island. However, they […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 9 days ago | 1 read
Dan is joined by Lighthouse Hockey’s Jenny Berman to discuss the acquisition of Brayden Schenn and the games surrounding this season’s Trade Deadline. It was a wild weekend for the Islanders, who dropped two massive duds in Anaheim and LA, then made a shocking last minute trade for the St. Louis Blues captain on Friday’s […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 10 days ago | 4 reads
The Islanders finish their four-game road trip with a stop to help Brayden Schenn pack up in St. Louis, where the Blues are returning from a lottery-spoiling perfect four-game western road trip of their own. In full selloff mode, the Blues somehow took out the Kraken, Sharks, Kings and finally the Ducks, with a 4-0 […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 10 days ago | 3 reads
No-trade clauses became the big topic of discussion around and after the trade deadline this year. And for good reason. It's become exceedingly apparent that there are a whole lot of them around these days. And teams want to see something done about it eventually. Additionally, there were also plenty of vetoed trades that seemed to stymie a lof of the action we normally see at the deadline. Colton Parayko said no to the Buffalo Sabres ; Tyler Myers vetoed a trade to the Detroit Red Wings...
From NHL Trade Rumors | 11 days ago | 3 reads
The San Jose Sharks had little to say after a 2-1 overtime loss to the New York Islanders. It was the team’s second overtime loss in as many days and it was clear that the is one stung a lot more than the 3-2 loss to St. Louis on Friday night. For the first half of the game, the Sharks seemed to figure out how to hang with the Islanders, but as the game wore on, San Jose got its scoring chances, but could not maintain puck possession as well as the Islanders did. There were a lot of one-a...
From Fear The Fin | 11 days ago | 4 reads
Bo Horvat scored with a nifty backhand on a breakaway as the Islanders continued their insane overtime record (9-0) and salvaged a win from their California swing, defeating the San Jose Sharks, 2-1. Brayden Schenn made his Islanders debut and was a presence for both the regulation goal for and against, settling in next to […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 11 days ago | 2 reads
The San Jose Sharks welcome Matthew Schaefer and the New York Islanders into SAP Center for the second night of back-to-back games tonight. This is going to be a tough go-around for the Sharks, as the Islanders had a chance to rest up for the game. New York was in San Jose, watching the Sharks play against the St. Louis Blues last night. New York is doing well this season and is, surprisingly, in a playoff spot as of this evening. The Islanders sit in third in the Metropolitan Division, w...
From Fear The Fin | 12 days ago | 4 reads
The 2025-26 New York Islanders begin the rest of their season with a roster that has three veterans they did not have a couple of months ago. Two of them were once semi-stars but are now in their decline — while carrying cap hits that reflect the former phase than the latter — but Mathieu […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 12 days ago | 5 reads
Well this was all most unexpected. Amid rumors of New York Islanders interest in Robert Thomas or Jordan Kyrou of the St. Louis Blues, who were reportedly requiring exorbitant prices for those locked-in prime-age centerpieces, the Isles instead sent a 1st-round pick for 34-year-old Blues captain Brayden Schenn — a center who has declined into […]
From Lighthouse Hockey | 13 days ago | 4 reads
The New York Islanders have finally gotten into the action at this trade deadline, making a big splash, as have the St. Louis Blues, as Brayden Schenn is headed to the Island. The official deal for Brayden Schenn to NYI. pic.twitter.com/03tHXXjLl2 — PuckEmpire (@puckempire) March 6, 2026 It’s a 2026 first-rounder, a third-rounder, and Jonathan Drouin and Swedish prospect Marcus Gidlof going back to St. Louis. The 34-year-old Schenn has been seemingly on the block for a couple of years no...
From NHL Trade Rumors | 13 days ago | 3 reads