Islanders Barry Trotz's big challenge ahead

With long-term injuries to key players on the New York Islanders roster, head coach Barry Trotz has some big challenges to get this team back on track.

Since taking over behind the bench for the New York Islanders in 2018, Barry Trotz has had a fairly stable roster. There's been little turnover on the roster.

That's mainly thanks to GM Lou Lamoriello making just a single trade over the last two seasons. But the roster has also seen such stability thanks to having a fairly healthy roster. In 2018-19 the Islanders ranked 19th in terms of man-games lost. Most of that was due to Andrew Ladd.

Now this season, the Islanders are already up to 15th in the league in terms of man-games lost. And that…