ISLANDERS (35-22-5) at KINGS (24-22-14)
9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, SNP, SNO, SNE, TVAS
Islanders projected lineup
Ondrej Palat — Bo Horvat — Mathew Barzal
Jonathan Drouin — Calum Ritchie — Emil Heineman
Anders Lee — Jean-Gabriel Pageau — Simon Holmstrom
Kyle MacLean — Casey Cizikas — Marc Gatcomb
Matthew Schaefer — Ryan Pulock
Adam Pelech — Tony DeAngelo
Carson Soucy — Scott Mayfield
Ilya Sorokin
David Rittich
Scratched: Maxim Shabanov, Anthony Duclair, Adam Boqvist
Injured: Kyle Palmieri (ACL), Alexander Romanov (upper body), Semyon Varlamov (knee)
Kings projected lineup
Artemi Panarin — Anze Kopitar — Adrian Kempe
Trevor Moore — Alex Turcotte — Alex Laferriere
Jared Wright — Kenny Connors — Corey Perry
Jeff Malott — Samuel Helenius — Taylor Ward
Mikey Anderson — Drew Doughty
Joel Edmundson — Brandt Clarke
Brian Dumoulin — Cody Ceci
Darcy Kuemper
Anton Forsberg
Scratched: Jacob Moverare
Injured: Quinton Byfield (undisclosed), Joel Armia (upper body), Andrei Kuzmenko (meniscus), Kevin Fiala (fractured leg)
Status report
The Islanders did not hold a morning skate following a 5-1 loss at the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday. … Pulock could be available after participating in a morning skate but not playing Wednesday because of an upper-body injury. … Doughty (lower body), Moore (illness) and Kuemper (illness) each is likely to return. … Byfield, a forward, will miss his second straight game and could be placed on injured reserve. … Wright was recalled from Ontario of the American Hockey League on Thursday after forward Warren Foegele was traded to the Ottawa Senators.
