The New York Islanders opened their 2023-24 regular-season schedule with a 3-2 win Saturday over the Buffalo Sabres.
But when the second line gets on the scoreboard twice and the first line counts itself unlucky to not join them, with a 12-5 scoring chance margin and 4-1 high-danger chance margin, that means the top six performed at a level it didn’t usually reach in previous years, at least as a collective.
The signs were there, though, in how well the second line of Engvall, Nelson and Palmieri performed once together. There is also the fact that, prior to Horvat and Engvall’s acquisitions, the Islanders did not really have a clear-cut, consistent top two lines. At least ahead of Tuesday’s game against Arizona, there are significantly fewer questions about the slotting of the forward group than there were for the entire first half of last season.That is no small detail when the two pieces that helped complete the puzzle, Horvat and Engvall, both joined midway through last season and still have more chemistry to build.
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