The Trend Line · 2026-27 · awaiting opening night

New York Islanders

State of the teamThe Islanders missed the playoffs for a second straight year, but the season belonged to Matthew Schaefer. The No. 1 pick won the Calder Trophy unanimously — the first to do so since Teemu Selanne in 1992-93 — and tied Brian Leetch's rookie record for goals by a defenceman. With the team fading down the stretch, New York fired coach Patrick Roy with four games left and brought in Peter DeBoer. In Schaefer, the Islanders have a franchise cornerstone to build around. Under DeBoer the Islanders re-signed Tony DeAngelo for two years and added Matias Maccelli, but lost goaltender David Rittich to New Jersey and headed toward the season still without a captain. The new season starts tracking here at puck drop.
84
2021-22
93
2022-23
94
2023-24
82
2024-25
91
2025-26
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2026-27
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Team Points Pace

Cumulative standings points through each game of the season, one colour per year. The red line is this season. Toggle to season-total bars for the year-over-year story.

one colour per season · hover for game detail
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Goals For & Against

Offence and defence, by season or game by game. Lower is better on goals against.

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Player Production

Each column is a core player; each dot is one season. Red is this season. Toggle the metric; hover any dot for the full line.

red = current season · one colour per past year
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Ice Time Tracker

Who's getting more ice time? Average minutes per game, season by season — the clearest read on who's gaining, and losing, the coach's trust. Flip to power-play time to see who's on the top unit. Add any skater on the roster; click a name in the legend to hide his line.

Minutes per game, from official NHL ice-time data.
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Goaltending

Every goalie season, dot size scaled by games played.

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Team Engine

Under-the-hood numbers, season by season: faceoffs, possession (SAT% is what the analytics crowd calls Corsi; Fenwick is the same idea minus blocked shots — above 50% means this team controls play), special teams, and shot rates.

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Zone Time

Offensive-zone time is the why behind shot-attempt share (SAT%) above — a team that lives in the offensive zone out-attempts opponents. The line tracks how that's moved season by season; the bar is this year's split. Based on NHL player-tracking data.

No player-tracking zone data published for this team.
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