The 2026-27 Islanders campaign has begun, and Sean, Arthur, and crew are back to cover it all! The fellas discuss what they saw in the first two games, what's ahead, Mat Barzal's status, and much more!
Good Morning, Islanders Country.
Some nights in an 82-game season, you look for a story and, truthfully, there isn’t much. The score is the score. Somebody scored. Somebody didn’t. Maybe there was a decent quote afterward.
You file it away and move on because not every game comes with a theme, a milestone, a moment, a reason to remember it two weeks later.
And then there are nights like Saturday.
A buzz built before puck drop, helped along by a game-ops and video presentation that has quietly become one of the league's better shows. The building felt alive before the Islanders gave anyone a reason to get loud.
Then came the second period.
Bo Horvat scored his 100th goal as an Islander. Simon Holmstrom and J.G. Pageau showed off the chemistry that keeps making that line work. Victor Eklund scored his first NHL goal with his very proud mother there to see it.
And if you’ve spent the last few months pounding the table over last season’s trade-deadline acquisitions (guilty, very much guilty ✋🏻), then for one night, you were on the wrong side of the argument.
