NEW YORK ISLANDERS NOTES:

LAST GAME
DATE NYI RESULT SCORE NYI SCORERS IN GOAL
Wednesday,
March 15
Win NYI 6 at ANA 3 Palmieri, Fasching,
Nelson (2), Engvall,
Parise
Sorokin (30/33)
Kyle Palmieri recorded four points and Brock Nelson scored twice as the New York Islanders defeated the Anaheim Ducks, 6-3, Wednesday night at Honda Center in Anaheim. Adam Pelech and Zach Parise each tallied multi-point games, Hudson Fasching found the back of the net for the sixth time this season, and Ilya Sorokin turned aside 20 of 23 shots faced to help the Islanders sweep their two-game season series against Anaheim.

RECENT TRANSACTIONS & UPDATES
Mar. 14 Jean-Gabriel Pageau has been activated off the team’s IR list.
Mar. 11 Cal Clutterbuck has been activated off the team’s IR list.

INJURIES GAMES MISSED

3 Adam Pelech Dec. 9 – Jan. 21

8 Noah Dobson Jan. 23 – Jan. 28

10 Simon Holmstrom Dec. 23 – Jan. 6

12 Josh Bailey Nov. 29, Feb. 18 – Feb. 24

13 Mathew Barzal Jan. 6, Feb. 20 –

15 Cal Clutterbuck Oct. 13, Nov. 8, Dec. 2- Dec. 6, Dec. 17 – Jan. 3, Jan. 21 – Mar. 9

20 Hudson Fasching Jan. 19 – Jan. 28

21 Kyle Palmieri Nov. 23 – Dec. 13, Dec. 17 – Jan. 21

25 Sebastian Aho Oct. 13 – Oct. 20

26 Oliver Wahlstrom Oct. 13, Dec. 29 –

36 Otto Koivula Mar. 11 –

40 Semyon Varlamov Dec. 19 – Jan. 1

44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau Feb. 14 – Mar. 11

Man Games Lost: 176

RECENT RESULTS
Wednesday, Mar. 15 at Anaheim W (6-3)
Tuesday, Mar. 14 at Los Angeles L (5-2)
Saturday, Mar. 11 vs. Washington L (5-1)
Thursday, Mar. 9 at Pittsburgh W/OT (4-3)
Tuesday, Mar. 7 vs. Buffalo W (3-2)
Saturday, Mar. 4 vs. Detroit W (4-1)

UPCOMING GAMES
Mar. 21 vs. Toronto UBS Arena (Belmont Park, NY) 7:30PM
Mar. 24 at Columbus Nationwide Arena (Columbus, OH) 7:00pm
Mar. 25 vs. Buffalo UBS Arena (Belmont Park, NY) 5:00pm
Mar. 27 vs. New Jersey UBS Arena (Belmont Park, NY) 7:30pm
Mar. 29 at Washington Capital One Arena (Washington, DC) 7:30pm

VS. SAN JOSE:
Last five meetings (2-0-3)
Oct. 18, 2022 UBS Arena W (5-2)
Feb. 24, 2022 SAP Center L/SO (4-3)
Dec. 2, 2023 UBS Arena L/OT (2-1)
Feb. 23, 2020 Nassau Coliseum W (4-1)
Nov. 23, 2019 SAP Center L/OT (2-1)

2022-23 1-0-0
Franchise History 21-17-3-5
NYI Home 12-7-2-2
NYI Away 9-10-1-3

SEASON SERIES
DATE LOCATION RESULT/TIME
Oct. 18, 2022 UBS Arena W, 5-2
Mar. 18, 2023 SAP Center 10:30pm

TEAM NOTES
TONIGHT’S MATCHUP
Tonight, the New York Islanders visit the San Jose Sharks in the second and final matchup between the two clubs this season. The last time these teams met was October 18, 2022, when four Islanders recorded multi-point games, including Noah Dobson, Brock Nelson and Adam Pelech, in a 5-2 Islander win. The Islanders conclude a three-game West Coast road trip tonight, as they face their final Pacific Division opponent of the 2022-23 regular season. They will look to improve to 10-6-0 against Pacific teams tonight.

The Islanders enter tonight’s matchup with points in six of their last eight games (5-2-1) and in their last five straight meetings against San Jose. The last time the Islanders visited SAP Center was February 24, 2022, where they collected a point in a 4-3 shootout loss to the Sharks.

The Islanders improved to 15-15-5 in road contests and 8-4-1 on the back-end of back-to-back games on Wednesday night, as they defeated the Anaheim Ducks, 6-3, at Honda Center. It was the first time the Islanders found the back of the net six times in a single contest since January 3, 2022 in Vancouver. Five Islanders registered multi-point games in the win.

DIVISION RECORDS
DIVISION RECORD NEXT OPPONENT LAST OPPONENT
Metropolitan 13-6-1 Mar. 24 at CBJ Mar. 11 vs. WSH (L)
Atlantic 7-8-4 Mar. 21 vs. TOR Mar. 7 vs. BUF (W)
Pacific 9-6-0 Mar. 18 at SJS Mar. 15 at ANA (W)
Central 6-7-3 none Feb. 28 at MIN (L/SO)

SAN JOSE SHARKS NOTES:

LAST GAME
Game 69 – 3/16 – SJS 1 vs SEA 2 (OT)…William Eklund (1g, 0a) scored his second goal in as many games, a penalty shot marker
against Philipp Grubauer. At 20 years, 155 days, Eklund became the second-youngest player in Sharks history to score on a penalty
shot, trailing only Jeff Friesen (19 years, 119 days on Dec. 2, 1995). He’s the second rookie (Tomas Plihal, March 9, 2008) to score a
penalty shot for the Sharks. It was the first penalty shot goal for San Jose since Logan Couture on March 11, 2019.
SJ Goals: Eklund (2 penalty shot)
SF: 32
SA: 32
SJ PP: 0/2
SJ PK: 3/3
W: Grubauer
OTL: Reimer

RECENT TRANSACTIONS
3/16 Assigned D Shakir Mukhamadullin to the San Jose Barracuda

TONIGHT’S OPPONENT: NEW YORK ISLANDERS
With six wins and points in seven of their past 10 games, the New York Islanders find themselves tied with the Pittsburgh Penguins with 78 points in the Eastern Conference Wild Card race. The Islanders, who are 15-15-5 on the road this season, have split the first two games of a California swing, falling at Los Angeles Tuesday before a 6-3 win at Anaheim Wednesday. The Pierre Engvall, Brock Nelson, Kyle Palmieri line had a big effort in the Isles’ Wednesday contest, totaling four goals and four assists on the evening. New York took the first meeting between the clubs on the season series, a 5-2 decision on October 18. Oliver Wahlstrom paced the Islanders with two goals in the game with four skaters chipping in multi-point efforts for New York.

March 18, 7:30 p.m. PT
SAN JOSE SHARKS VS NEW YORK ISLANDERS
19-36-14 (52 pts), 8th Pacific 2022-23 RECORD/STANDING 35-27-8 (78 pts), 5th Metropolitan/2nd Wild Card
0-3-2 LAST 5 GAMES 3-2-0
0-1-0 SEASON SERIES 1-0-0
22-18-3-3 ALL-TIME RECORD AGAINST OPPONENT 21-17-3-5
2022-23 PLAYER STATS
Logan Couture and Erik Karlsson (69) GAMES PLAYED LEADER 5 players (70)
Timo Meier (31) GOALS LEADER Brock Nelson (30)
Erik Karlsson (65) ASSISTS LEADER Mathew Barzal (37)
Erik Karlsson (85) POINTS LEADER Brock Nelson (65)