When Anthony Duclair was a 15-year-old in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, he thought his path lay through college — and he held no bones about telling interested teams in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey

Patrick Roy wasted no time in his first training camp as Islanders coach. The first drill on Thursday morning was run by the Isles’ presumptive top line for 2024-25, with Anthony Duclair and Mathew Barzal flanking Bo Horvat.

One of the biggest question marks for the Islanders following last season’s second straight first-round playoff loss to the Carolina Hurricanes was if the team could find a solution to who could join Mat Barzal and Bo Horvat to complete the Isles’ first line.

It’s not quite the Same Old Isles who will show up at training camp this week, but it’s pretty far from a whole new world.

Isles coach, as his first training camp nears, revealed why top goaltender Ilya Sorokin won't be ready for camp.