How do you think the New York Islanders lineup for the 2024-25 season?
It's the dog days of summer, a mere 13 days following the start of the 2024 NHL Free Agency period.
It's all quiet on the Western Long Island front, as the New York Islanders made their NHL moves on Day 1, signing Anthony Duclair and bringing back Mike Reilly.
Duclair, at $3.5 million annually over the next four seasons, seems to be a bargain deal, as we will see how his second time playing under head coach Patrick Roy goes.
Given what Reilly showed last season after being acquired via a waiver claim in late November, his coming back on a one-year deal worth $1.25 million is what we call a team-friendly deal.
Before we dive into the depth chart -- which can always change if other moves are made -- it's important to note that the Islanders' cap situation doesn't allow them to field a 23-man roster.
On paper, they have $900,000 in available cap space -- depending on what site you look at -- with $874,125 of that going to restricted free agent Simon Holmstrom.
Here's what the Islanders' 22-man roster is likely to look like this fall:
Left Wingers
Anders Lee
Centers
Bo Horvat
Brock Nelson
Jean-Gabriel Pageau
Kyle MacLean
Right Wingers
Mathew Barzal
Kyle Palmieri
Pierre Engvall
Left Defense
Alexander Romanov
Adam Pelech
Mike Reilly
Samuel Bolduc
Right Defense
Noah Dobson
Ryan Pulock
Scott Mayfield
Goaltenders
Ilya Sorokin
Semyon Varlamov
First Call-Ups
C/W Liam Foudy
W Julien Gauthier
D Grant Hutton
G Marcus Hogberg
Projected Starting Lineup
Duclair--Horvat--Barzal
Tsyplakov--Nelson--Palmieri
Lee--Pageau--Engvall
MacLean--Cizikas--Fasching
Romanov--Dobson
Pelech--Pulock
Reilly--Mayfield
Sorokin
Varlamov