The New York Islanders switched up their practice groups on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
See below for the revised groups.<\/p>\n
NOTES<\/p>\n
Matthew Schaefer on Right Side<\/p>\n
Matthew Schaefer skated on the right side on a pairing with Adam\u00a0Pelech. Schaefer, a left-handed shot, skating on the right was something Head Coach Pete DeBoer said he wanted to see at camp, noting Schaefer’s ability to play all over the ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s not the first time he’s played right, and like I said, he ends up on that side a lot in the games when you watch him, anyway,” DeBoer said. “I think the rest of our lineup will dictate [whether he plays on the left or right]. [It’ll depend on] who elevates here in training camp, who plays well. Do we need him on the right because of the way the rest of the D is rolled out? [If] we hit any injuries. Just the familiarity with having had some reps on the right, so that we have that option in all those situations is the idea.”<\/p>\n
DeBoer Starts Work on Power Play\u00a0<\/p>\n
DeBoer also started work on the Islanders power play, which he said is going to take some time to revamp.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s not a quick fix. It hasn’t been good for quite a while,” DeBoer said. “We’re looking to take steps and build a foundation and try and get this to be good going forward. Now you cross your fingers and hope it’s a quick fix. I’m very confident it’s going to be improved and we’re not easing into it.”<\/p>\n
The Isles power play converted at 16.5% last season, which ranked 30th in the NHL and ranked 31st at 12.6% the year prior. DeBoer said he felt the power play was a little “stagnant” last season with players being too locked into their own positions on the power play and less fluid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The good power plays are interchangeable,” DeBoer said. “There’s a lot of motion, there’s a lot of movement, there’s a lot of guys moving to different parts of the ice, and they’re interchangeable in their positioning. I felt this group was really stagnant almost deferring to well, that’s my spot there, that’s your spot.<\/p>\n
“The biggest thing is using the whole zone and being interchangeable,” DeBoer added. “Like all the elite power plays are.”<\/p>\n
BLUE GROUP<\/p>\n
Forwards<\/p>\n
10 – Brayden Schenn
11 – Anthony Duclair
14 – Bo Horvat
18 – Pierre Engvall
21 – Kyle Palmieri
26 – Mitchell Chaffee
32 – Kyle MacLean
44 – JG Pageau
51 – Emil Heineman
53 – Casey Cizikas
63 – Matias Maccelli
64 – Cal Ritchie
73 – Victor Eklund
81 – Ondrej Palat
92 – Simon Holmstrom<\/p>\n
Defensemen<\/p>\n
3 – Adam Pelech
4 – Matt Kessel
6 – Ryan Pulock
7 – Marshall Warren
24 – Scott Mayfield
28 – Alexander Romanov
36 – Isaiah George
37 – Kashawn Aitcheson
48 – Matthew Schaefer
77 – Tony DeAngelo<\/p>\n
Goaltenders<\/p>\n
30 – Ilya Sorokin
40 – Semyon Varlamov
41 – Vitek Vanecek<\/p>\n
LINES<\/p>\n
Holmstrom – Horvat – Palmieri
Maccelli – Ritchie – Schenn
Eklund – Pageau – Heineman
Palat – Cizikas – Duclair
Engvall – MacLean – Chaffee<\/p>\n
Pelech – Schaefer
Romanov – Pulock
Aitcheson – DeAngelo
George – Mayfield
Warren – Kessel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Islanders switched up their practice groups on Saturday morning. See below for the revised groups.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-351594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}