The National Hockey League's draft highlighted increasing diversity within the sport as a record number of players of color ...

The Islanders have eight picks in the seven-round draft, including two in each of the first two rounds. “We need everything right now,” Islanders Director of Player Development Eric Cairns ...

He was encouraged that Islanders players decided to join the rest of the NHL in sitting out games Thursday and Friday to support the league’s players of color in the wake of Jacob Blake’s ...

On Thursday morning, Islanders coach Barry Trotz said his players were discussing the possibility of boycotting their game, scheduled for 7 p.m. ET, though he predicted they ultimately would ...

“The players hated each other back then,” hockey historian, author and researcher Paul Patskou said. “They never got together. They wanted to win, both the all-stars and the Stanley Cup team.

For the Islanders to compete at the playoff-level they desire, they need their top line in sync and playing to its potential. Barzal is a hard player with whom to build chemistry.

The Islanders wasted no time throwing new acquisition Pierre Engvall into the deep end, putting him on the top line with Anders Lee and Bo Horvat at Thursday’s practice, Engvall’s first with ...

We go from Caps player to Caps player, as the Islanders definitely miss this defenseman. Poti played on the Islanders from 2006-2007 in a season that he recorded 38 assists.