Toughness and sandpaper in general are an increasingly rare commodity among forwards in the National Hockey League. Players capable of breaking and tackling on a regular basis are not to be found on every street corner,

New York Islanders prospect Cole Eiserman had a stellar 2024-25 rookie season at Boston University, scoring 25 goals in 39 games, where he led all NCAA freshmen in goals and ranked fifth among all NCAA skaters.

The New York Islanders have $3.8 million in salary cap space per PuckPedia, and ideally, they will use it to re-sign Maxim Tsyplakov. That said, is that the only thing they can do with the space?

Minimalist city building game Islanders New Shores is finally here, with a mountainous roadmap also planned throughout the rest of 2025.

According to a production spokesperson, the kitchen is stocked with all the breakfast essentials: pancake and waffle mix, eggs, avocados, yogurt and granola, cereals, breads and Nutella. And there are not one but two coffee makers — a drip filter and an espresso machine.

You can look at the system and see the makings of a good team in 2030, something that wasn’t even close to being true at this time last year.

Here are five things we’ve learned about the Islanders over the past two weeks:

The agent, Dan Milstein, for Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin, recently took to X to quiet all of the trade rumors and say there is no truth to any of it.

At the last draft, the Utah Mammoth selected Caleb Desnoyers fourth overall. The Québécois center was a closely watched prospect in Montreal, but the Habs surprised last year, taking him out of the running for Desnoyers.

Marc Gatcomb’s 39-game stint with the Islanders was impressive enough to earn a one-way deal for next season. The Islanders announced a one-year deal with the 25-year-old wing on Sunday after the two sides avoided arbitration one day prior.

The New York Rangers and New York Islanders are taking different paths but have the same goal for the upcoming