Red Wings at Islanders: Notes, Lines, Goalies, How to Watch

The Red Wings and Islanders meet for the final time in the regular season tonight as the 2024-25 campaign passes the quarter pole.

The teams played in Detroit last week, with the Red Wings winning 2-1, and Detroit won on the Islanders’ home rink last month. 1-0.

That’s been a rare bright spot on the season which has left fans ranging from despairing to downright angry.

Neither team comes in on a roll. The Wings have lost four of their last five, while the Islanders have lost five of their last seven.

Patrick Kane and Michael Rasmussen are nursing upper-body injuries. Kane is out tonight and is listed as day to day.

Patrick Kane will not play against the #Isles on Monday night. @DetroitRedWings head coach Derek Lalonde said the veteran forward will “need another day, probably day-to-day situation.” Kane took maintenance day on Sunday.

— Jonathan Mills (@JonathanDMillsy) November 25, 2024

That might give Joe Veleno a chance to get back into the lineup, with conditions, as Kevin Allen reports.

Alex Lyon, who is 2-0 against the Islanders, get the start in net tonight.

Meanwhile, the Islanders are in the midst of a stretch that has them playing three of their next four games at home, including tonight.

So, like last week, tonight’s game pits a pair of teams looking for a spark in what has been a mostly flat season for both.

The Matchup

Who: Red Wings at Islanders

Where: UBS Arena, Elmont, N.Y.

When: 7:30 p.m.

TV/Radio: FanDuel/97.1 FM

Detroit Lines

(as of Sunday’s practice)

Tarasenko-Larkin-Raymond

DeBrincat-Kasper-Berggren

Veleno-Compher-Fischer

Motte-Copp-Fischer

Defensive Pairings

Edvinsson-Seider

Chiarot-Petry

Johansson-Gustafsson

Goalies

Lyon-Talbot

New York Islanders Lines

Anders Lee-Bo Horvat-Jean-Gabriel Pageau

Maxim Tsyplakov-Brock Nelson-Kyle Palmieri

Pierre Engvall-Casey Cizikas-Simon Holmstrom

Matt Martin-Kyle MacLean-Oliver Wahlstrom

Defensive Pairings

Alexander Romanov-Noah Dobson

Isaiah George-Ryan Pulock

Dennis Cholowski-Scott Mayfield

Goalies

Ilya Sorokin-Semyon Varlamov