The home-and-home between the Mediocre Metro Mid-Tier begins tonight in Columbus, at the very not-Belmont time of 7:00 p.m. EDT.
The Blue Jackets haven’t won in 10 games, but they at least fetched consolation points from their weekend, which is more than the Isles can say.
Leave your First Islanders Goal picks here.
The Islanders enter tonight trailing the Blue Jackets by four points but with two games in hand. Columbus is 15 points behind the final wild card holders in Washington. So the stakes are low, or out of reach.
In today’s media availability, Barry Trotz said Ilya Sorokin is doing alright and should be back soon (but not tonight).