Feel free to take all of the grains of salt you need, but a very young incarnation of the Islanders shut out a similarly inexperienced version of the Flyers 3-0 Monday night at Barclays Center in the preseason opener for both teams.
The total number of players with NHL experience for both teams could be counted on two hands (really only Michael Del Zotto and Colin McDonald for Philadelphia and about five or six guys for the Islanders). Eric Boulton is older than any two combined teammates from tonight.