Mathew Barzal was a shock scratch for Friday’s match in Calgary, taking warmups with the team before he was listed as out for Friday’s game against the Flames.
The Islanders announced that Barzal was day-to-day with a lower-body injury, an exclamation mark on the slew of injuries they’ve had over the past month. Barzal has arguably been the Islanders’ best player this season, with 41 points in 40 games going into Friday. To lose him for any period of time would border on calamity for an Islanders team that is in the midst of a dogfight for a postseason berth.
The Islanders had just been starting to get healthy, with Cal Clutterbuck returning to the lineup on Thursday in Edmonton and Semyon Varlamov making his first start since Dec. 17 against the Flames. Kyle Palmieri, Adam Pelech, Oliver Wahlstrom and Simon Holmstrom are still on the shelf, with Palmieri being the only one of the four who made the trip out to Western Canada.
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