ISLANDERS (3-3-0) at SENATORS (5-2-0)
7 p.m. ET; RDS, TSN5, MSGSN
Islanders projected lineup
Matias Maccelli -- Bo Horvat -- Kyle Palmieri
Brayden Schenn -- Cal Ritchie -- Victor Eklund
Ondrej Palat -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Anthony Duclair
Emil Heineman -- Casey Cizikas -- Simon Holmstrom
Logan Stanley -- Matthew Schaefer
Adam Pelech -- Ryan Pulock
Matt Kessel -- Tony DeAngelo
Semyon Varlamov
Ilya Sorokin
Scratched: Kyle MacLean, Scott Mayfield
Injured: Mathew Barzal (knee), Alexander Romanov (torn right ACL)
Senators projected lineup
Stephen Halliday -- Tim Stutzle -- Drake Batherson
Andre Burakovsky -- Dylan Cozens -- Claude Giroux
Nick Cousins -- Shane Pinto -- Michael Amadio
Warren Foegele -- Ridly Greig -- Fabian Zetterlund
Thomas Chabot -- Artem Zub
Tyler Kleven -- Carter Yakemchuk
Cameron Crotty -- Jordan Spence
Linus Ullmark
Samuel Ersson
Scratched: Hayden Hodgson
Injured: Jake Sanderson (undisclosed), William Eklund (ankle surgery), Nikolas Matinpalo (upper body), Kurtis MacDermid (upper body)
Status report
Barzal did not travel with the Islanders and the forward will miss his seventh straight game to start the season. ... Varlamov will start. ... Zub will make his season debut after missing time with a knee injury sustained during Game 1 of the Eastern Conference First Round against the Carolina Hurricanes last season. ... Sanderson skated with the group in a regular jersey but will miss his sixth consecutive game after being injured during a season-opening 3-2 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Oct. 3; Senators coach Travis Green said the defenseman is "close" to returning. ... Greig is expected to play after missing the final 9:09 of a 7-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday because of a strain. ... Crotty will return after missing two games because of an undisclosed injury. … Eklund had surgery Wednesday to repair a torn tendon in his ankle; the forward is expected to be out 10-12 weeks. ... Defensemen Jorian Donovan and Hoyt Stanley each was reassigned by the Senators to Belleville of the American Hockey League.
