You know it is late August when we begin by stating the obvious: The Islanders are going to need injury luck on their side to compete next season.<\/p>\n
The Islanders \u2014 and 31 other teams.<\/p>\n
So why bring this up? Because this time of year, it is a constructive exercise to look at a roster and ask yourself how many players you are absolutely sure will have a great season, barring a freak injury or something extraordinary happening.<\/p>\n
Define \u201cgreat season\u201d however you like, but for the sake of simplicity, let\u2019s set the bar fairly low and say 50 points for a forward, 70-plus games with a five-on-five expected goals rate above 50 percent for a defenseman and a save percentage above .900 for a goalie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You know it is late August when we begin by stating the obvious: The Islanders are going to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[75615,75616,75617,75618,75619,394,385,4892,75620,99,358],"class_list":["post-116833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-pelech","tag-anthony-duclair","tag-bo-horvat","tag-inside-the-islanders","tag-mathew-barzal","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-simon-holmstrom","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}