In the absence of an official thread, let's loiter about the internets, following our guys as they battle Montreal and New Jersey. (RDS pirate feed available on net, Twitter reports for NJ game. Apologies that my French is poor to nonexistent, so I can't relay what Montreal's booth has to say about us.)

LINES: http://islanders.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=64337&navid=DL|NYI|home for source

MONTREAL SQUAD:

Forwards
81 Justin DiBenedetto – 45 David Ullstrom – 29 Krys Kolanos
16 Jon Sim – 40 Rob Hisey – 25 Nino Niederreiter
58 Jesse Joensuu - 37 Dean McAmmond – 18 Jed Ortmeyer
59 Micheal Haley – 50 Tomas Marcinko – 33 Jeremy Yablonski

Defensemen
38 Jack Hillen – 36 Travis Hamonic
6 Anders Eriksson – 42 Dylan Reese
71 Mark Katic – 8 Bruno Gervais

Goaltenders
34 Manny Legace
1 Mikko Koskinen

NEW JERSEY SQUAD:

Forwards
57 Blake Comeau, 91 John Tavares, 15 Parenteau
93 Doug Weight, 12 Josh Bailey, 49 Rhett Rakhshani
26 Matt Moulson, 51 Frans Nielsen, 7 Trent Hunter

Defensemen

4 Mark Eaton, 24 Radek Martinek
3 Calvin de Haan, 47 Andrew MacDonald
55 Mike Mottau, 20 James Wisniewski

Goalies

Rick DiPietro
Dwayne Roloson

If anyone can supply the 4th forward line for the New Jersey game?

First period summaries:

MONTREAL 3, ISLES 1: Sim scores on a nice set-up from NINO. Montreal controlling the game, Legace not getting much help from our guys.

NEW JERSEY 1, ISLES 1: Isles site (link above with lines) has a nice recap of Bailey's goal on a Weight marker. Not mentioned is the fact that we gave up a penalty shot to Kovalchuk which DiPi did not give up a goal on:

(from @NYIslanders)

1. DP comes out, forces Kovalchuk to hit the post. #isles #vsnjd
2. Kovalchuk about to take pealty shot. #vsnjd

That's what I've got for now...2nd about to start in Montreal, hoping my poor French skills suddenly resurrect themselves...