ISLANDERS (18-10-10) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (22-12-5)
10 p.m. SCRIPPS, MSGSN
Islanders projected lineup
Anders Lee -- Bo Horvat -- Mathew Barzal
Pierre Engvall -- Brock Nelson -- Kyle Palmieri
Simon Holmstrom -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau -- Julien Gauthier
Matt Martin -- Casey Cizikas -- Cal Clutterbuck
Alexander Romonov -- Noah Dobson
Samuel Bolduc -- Scott Mayfield
Mike Reilly -- Sebastian Aho
Ilya Sorokin
Kenneth Appleby
Scratched: Oliver Wahlstrom, Hudson Fasching
Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower body), Semyon Varlamov (lower body), Adam Pelech (upper body), Ryan Pulock (lower body)
Golden Knights projected lineup
Ivan Barbashev -- Jack Eichel -- Jonathan Marchessault
Pavel Dorofeyev – Chandler Stephenson -- Mark Stone
Brett Howden -- Nicolas Roy -- Keegan Kolesar
Grigori Denisenko -- Michael Amadio -- Paul Cotter
Alec Martinez – Alex Pietrangelo
Nicolas Hague -- Zach Whitecloud
Brayden McNabb -- Lukas Cormier
Logan Thompson
Jiri Patera
Scratched: Tobias Bjornfot, Brayden Pachal
Injured: William Carrier (undisclosed), Adin Hill (lower body), Ben Hutton (upper body) William Karlsson (lower body), Keegan Kolesar (illness), Kaedan Korczak (lower body), Shea Theodore (upper body)
Status report
Sorokin will make his sixth start in seven games. ... Thompson will start for the fifth straight game. ... Cormier, a defenseman, will make his NHL debut. … Carrier, a forward, will not play.
