Mat Barzal didn’t make it a secret how miserable it was for him to watch the Islanders slip out of the playoff race, unable to do anything about it. The 27-year-old from Coquitlam, British ...

Barzal suffered an upper-body injury on Oct. 30 in Columbus, just 10 games into the season. He worked his way back to game action in mid-December, but after returning for 20 games where he put up 15 ...

Varlamov last played on Nov. 29 and missed the final 57 games after having a procedure on his knee in December. He said he hopes to resume skating in June after an abortive attempt at an in-season ...

Mathew Barzal missed the season’s final 10 weeks after undergoing kneecap surgery, and without him the Islanders suffered a disastrous finish. Corey Sipkin for New York Post The Isles lost five ...