Preseason Game Preview: Islanders at Devils

NEW YORK ISLANDERS AT NEW JERSEY DEVILS

1 PM | PRUDENTIAL CENTER

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The New York Islanders kick off the preseason in New Jersey, taking on the Devils at Prudential Center at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

Sunday's game is the first of four preseason contests for the Islanders, as the league shortened the exhibition slate to accommodate an 84-game regular season schedule. Previous preseasons typically featured between six and eight games. 

The NHL's Collective Bargaining Agreement also stipulates that players with over 100 NHL games played are capped at two preseason contests, so it'll be a short evaluation window for Head Coach Pete DeBoer. The NHL also mandates that at least eight veteran players must suit up in an exhibition game.

LINEUPS

ISLANDERS LINEUP

See below for the lineup and projected lines for Sunday's game.

Ondrej Palat - Cal Ritchie - Victor Eklund
Cole Eiserman - Matthew Highmore - Pierre Engvall
Daniil Prokhorov - Liam Foudy - Joey Larson
Tomas Poletin - Luca Romano - Gleb Veremyev

Isaiah George - Matt Kessel
Kashawn Aitcheson - Ethan Bear
Marshall Warren - Vladimir Dravecky

Vitek Vanecek
Henrik Tikkanen

DEVILS LINEUP

Per NewJerseyDevils.com, the Devils are icing the following lineup on Sunday. Former Islanders goaltender David Rittich is likely to play part of the contest. 

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Forwards

10 Riley Tufte
12 Cody Glass 
16 Connor Brown 
20 Shane Lachance
29 Lenni Hameenaho
36 Colin White
37 Ben Steeves
49 Ryan Schmelzer
57 Matyas Melovsky
67 Xavier Parent
75 Cam Squires
93 Amadeus Lombardi

Defensemen

5 Brenden Dillon
18 Vladislav Kolyachonok
24 Seamus Casey
47 Declan Chisholm
52 Anton Silaev
73 Ethan Edwards

Goaltenders

31 Jakub Malek
33 David Rittich