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; 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 in 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 with 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 to Belleville of the American Hockey League.
