Islanders goalies Thomas Greiss and Semyon Varlamov talk during an summer training camp session at Northwell Health Ice Center on July 22, 2020. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Semyon Varlamov and Thomas Greiss will get playing time in the Islanders’ lone exhibition game against the Rangers on Wednesday night in Toronto.
Coach Barry Trotz will then have to make the tough decision as to which netminder gets the start for Saturday’s Game 1 of the Islanders’ best-of-five qualifying series against the Panthers at Scotiabank Arena.
“Both guys will get work,” Trotz said of the exhibition game, adding how each plays will impact his ultimate decision “a little bit.