New Jersey Devils at New York Islanders: game preview
New JerseyDevils2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 42-37-3 · 87 pts · 21stat
NY IslandersIslanders2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 43-34-5 · 91 pts · 19thFour points apart last season
New Jersey finished last season 21st in the league on 87 points. NY Islanders finished 19th on 91, and the 2025-26 season series went NYI 4-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 253
Across 252 completed games, NY Islanders lead the head-to-head 139-90-22.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 10 Nov 2025, New Jersey were 3rd in the league and NY Islanders 16th. By 3 Oct it was 24th and 15th.
New Jersey out-attempted NY Islanders 342 to 238
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New Jersey Devils
New York Islanders
New Jersey have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for New Jersey, 3 for NY Islanders. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for New Jersey, 10 for NY Islanders.
2025-26: 82 games for New Jersey, 82 for NY Islanders.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
New Jersey
Small sampleNY Islanders
Small sampleCasey Cizikas has 6 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Casey Cizikas vs New Jersey · game by game
See all: Casey Cizikas vs New Jersey · game by game →Ilya Sorokin has started most of these meetings
Ilya Sorokin played 4 of the last 5 meetings with New Jersey, with a .979 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 5 Nov: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 5 Nov: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
New Jersey crease
NJD · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 4 Nov
Two goalies used against NY Islanders
Ilya Sorokin
See all: Ilya Sorokin →NYI · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 4 Nov
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Semyon Varlamov .864 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 5.8 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
New Jersey2.004.332.803.10
NY Islanders3.002.332.842.94Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
7 on the injury lists
New Jersey · injuries
NY Islanders · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers.
Claimed LW Jeremie Poirier off waivers. Placed C/RW Marc McLaughlin, LD Vladislav Kolyachonok, G David Rittich, LW Riley Tufte, LD Topias Vilen, and C/RW Colin White on waivers.
Assigned Ds Mikael Diotte, Ethan Edwards, Jeremy Hanzel, Etienne Morin and Anton Silaev, Fs Josh Filmon, Lenni Hameenaho, Shane Lachance, Matyas Melovsky, Xavier Parent, Cam Squires and Ben Steeves and G Jakub Malek to Utica (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Utica Ds DJ King, Charles Leddy and Eamon Powell, Fs Tristan Ashbrook, Zachary Gallant, Gabe Klassen, Jack Malone, Justin Pearson, Ryan Schmelzer, Cristophe Tellier and Jermey Wilmer and Gs Jeremy Brodeur and Seth Eisele.
Agreed to terms with LD Logan Stanley on a 1-Year contract worth $1.5M. Placed G Vitek Vanecek on waivers with the intention of sending to Hamilton (AHL)
Waived Fs Tanner Fritz, Matt Luff and Nathan Chaffee. Waived Fs Dylan Foudy and Hudson Kuefler for the purpose of sending to Hamilton (AHL).
Signed F Alex Jefferies to a one-year contract.
New Jersey · 2026 draft
See all: New Jersey · 2026 draft →NY Islanders · 2026 draft
See all: NY Islanders · 2026 draft →Saturday 7 November · the full slate
See all: Saturday 7 November · the full slate →
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