Islanders @ Avalanche [Game #37 thread]

Semyon Varlamov — who at one point we feared wouldn’t even make this trip — gets the start against one of his former teams. Welcome back, Pierre Engvall, and we hardly knew ya, Identity Line.

Here’s how they line up vs. the Colorado Avalanche in Denver:

#Isles in warmups

Lee-Horvat-Barzal
Engvall-Nelson-Palmieri
Holmstrom-Pageau-Gauthier
Fasching-Cizikas-Clutterbuck
Romanov-Dobson
Bolduc-Bortuzzo
Reilly-Mayfield
Varlamov
Sorokin— Andrew Gross (@AGrossNewsday) January 3, 2024