Ethan Sears

Brent Sutter played 18 seasons in the NHL, 12 of them with the Islanders, who will honor him in January by making him the first inductee into the franchise Hall of Fame since 2020 and the 16th play…

“I wish I did keep in touch with him more,” MacLean told The Post. “Text here, phone call here and there. Jonesy, he was a good coach.”

There has been nothing resembling a learning curve for Isaiah George through two games in the NHL.

It was 4-2 over the Senators on Thursday night at the Canadian Tire Center, and a winning formula that still depends first on hard-nosed defense and good goaltending is coming into focus, even as the Islanders are still without the entire left side of their blue line.

For two periods on Saturday night, goalie Ilya Sorokin again carried the Islanders, but it still wasn’t enough.

In the middle of last March, when the Islanders faced the Senators, Kyle MacLean went looking for Bob Jones.

EDMONTON, Alberta — The Islanders are set for their longest road trip in three seasons and it comes at a pivotal moment of their season.

Rewind back there and we were asking whether Simon Holmstrom could step up to the plate and spell Anthony Duclair on the top line, which was the biggest question around the Islanders.

The good news for the Islanders is that Alexander Romanov returned to practice Monday, a positive sign that the defenseman will be back from an upper-body injury sooner rather than later.

Up on the plains of Alberta, they are waiting for history and it nearly came on Tuesday night.