New York Islanders at Chicago Blackhawks: game preview
NY IslandersIslanders2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 43-34-5 · 91 pts · 19that
ChicagoBlackhawks2026-27: 1-3-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 29-39-14 · 72 pts · 31stNineteen points apart last season
NY Islanders finished last season 19th in the league on 91 points. Chicago finished 31st on 72, and the 2025-26 season series went NYI 1-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 133
Across 132 completed games, Chicago lead the head-to-head 71-54-7.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 30 Dec 2025, NY Islanders were 7th in the league and Chicago 30th. By 24 Mar 2026 it was 12th and 30th.
NY Islanders out-attempted Chicago 314 to 245
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New York Islanders
Chicago Blackhawks
NY Islanders and Chicago are level on 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 NY Islanders, 4 for Chicago. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for NY Islanders, 10 for Chicago.
2025-26: 82 games for NY Islanders, 82 for Chicago.
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
NY Islanders
Small sampleChicago
Small sampleSimon Holmstrom has 7 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.
Simon Holmstrom vs Chicago · game by game
See all: Simon Holmstrom vs Chicago · game by game →Arvid Soderblom has been the difference
Arvid Soderblom faced 99 shots across 3 appearances against NY Islanders and conceded 11, a .889 save percentage against a season figure of .813. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 22 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 21 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Ilya Sorokin
See all: Ilya Sorokin →NYI · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Feb
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Semyon Varlamov .864 (1 GP)
Full game logArvid Soderblom
See all: Arvid Soderblom →CHI · 0-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Feb
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Spencer Knight .891 (3 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 5.9 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
NY Islanders3.002.332.842.94
Chicago2.254.252.603.35Goals 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.
5 on the injury lists
NY Islanders · injuries
Chicago · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
Assigned D Charles Alexis Legault to Chicago (AHL).
Agreed to terms with F Oliver Moore on a five-year contract extension. Loaned Fs Jiri felcman, Martin Misiak and Marek Vanacker and D Dylan Anhorn to Rockford (AHL). Assigned F Brett Seney to Rockford.
Placed D Derrick Pouliot on waivers.
NY Islanders · 2026 draft
See all: NY Islanders · 2026 draft →Chicago · 2026 draft
See all: Chicago · 2026 draft →
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