You might call today the official start of the New York Islanders 2022-23 campaign. You could say season, but that doesn’t feel right until the puck drops in game number one.
But whatever you call it, the Islanders will take the ice as a team for the first time since last April (though they may not hit the ice until tomorrow, as they just have to “report” today). They might not have expected it—and we as fans definitely did not—but it will be essentially the same group that you see in the photo, plus one Alexander Romanov and minus one Barry Trotz.