New York Islanders

Every NHL player the encyclopedia attributes to the New York Islandersfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room New York Islanders has passed down, steadiest first. The G room is their most stable — 13 holders across 54 years, a new one every 4.2 on average.

1. G13 holders · 12 handoffs · 1973–2026 · one every 4.2y
   Billy Smith1973–1989→Glenn Resch1974–1981→Roland Melanson1981–1985→Kelly Hrudey1984–1989→Mark Fitzpatrick1989–1993→Glenn Healy1990–1993→Tommy Salo1995–1999→Rick DiPietro2001–2013→Evgeni Nabokov2012–2014→Jaroslav Halak2015–2018→Thomas Greiss2016–2020→Semyon Varlamov2020–2025→Ilya Sorokin2021–2026
2. LW24 holders · 23 handoffs · 1973–2025 · one every 2.2y
   Garry Howatt1973–1981→J.P. Parise1975–1978→Clark Gillies1975–1986→John Tonelli1979–1986→Greg Gilbert1982–1989→Richard Kromm1986–1993→Derek King1987–1997→David Volek1989–1994→Benoit Hogue1992–1995→Marty Mcinnis1992–1997→Niklas Andersson1996–2000→Ted Donato1999–2002→Brad Isbister2000–2003→Jason Blake2001–2007→Sean Bergenheim2004–2010→Andy Hilbert2007–2009→Blake Comeau2007–2012→Matt Moulson2010–2014→Matt Martin2010–2025→Michael Grabner2011–2015→Nikolay Kulemin2015–2018→Andrew Ladd2017–2020→Zach Parise2022–2023→Pierre Engvall2023–2025
3. RW28 holders · 27 handoffs · 1973–2026 · one every 1.9y
   Ed Westfall1973–1979→Billy Harris1973–1980→Bobby Nystrom1973–1986→Mike Bossy1978–1987→Duane Sutter1980–1987→Patrick Flatley1984–1996→Alan Kerr1985–1991→Mikko Makela1986–1990→Brad Dalgarno1986–1996→Brad Lauer1987–1992→Randy Wood1987–1997→Mick Vukota1988–1997→Steve Thomas1992–1995→Ziggy Palffy1994–1999→Mariusz Czerkawski1998–2004→Mark Parrish2001–2006→Trent Hunter2002–2011→Arron Asham2003–2007→Miroslav Satan2006–2008→Richard Park2007–2010→Kyle Okposo2008–2016→Josh Bailey2009–2023→PA Parenteau2011–2012→Cal Clutterbuck2014–2024→Anthony Beauvillier2017–2023→Jordan Eberle2018–2021→Oliver Wahlstrom2020–2025→Simon Holmstrom2023–2026
4. C31 holders · 30 handoffs · 1973–2026 · one every 1.7y
   Lorne Henning1973–1981→Andre St. Laurent1974–1978→Jude Drouin1975–1978→Bob Bourne1975–1986→Bryan Trottier1976–1990→Wayne Merrick1978–1984→Anders Kallur1980–1985→Butch Goring1980–1985→Brent Sutter1981–1992→Pat LaFontaine1984–1991→Ray Ferraro1991–1995→Pierre Turgeon1992–1995→Travis Green1993–1998→Kip Miller1995–2002→Bryan Smolinski1997–1999→Claude Lapointe1997–2003→Dave Scatchard2000–2004→Oleg Kvasha2001–2006→Michael Peca2002–2004→Alexei Yashin2002–2007→Shawn Bates2002–2008→Frans Nielsen2007–2016→John Tavares2010–2018→Casey Cizikas2012–2026→Brock Nelson2013–2025→Anders Lee2013–2026→Ryan Strome2014–2017→Mathew Barzal2017–2026→Jean-Gabriel Pageau2020–2026→Kyle Palmieri2021–2026→Bo Horvat2023–2026
5. D36 holders · 35 handoffs · 1973–2026 · one every 1.5y
   Gerry Hart1973–1979→Jean Potvin1973–1981→Bert Marshall1974–1979→Dave Lewis1974–1980→Denis Potvin1974–1988→Stefan Persson1978–1986→Dave Langevin1980–1985→Ken Morrow1980–1989→Tomas Jonsson1982–1989→Gord Dineen1983–1995→Gerald Diduck1985–1990→Jeff Norton1988–1993→Rich Pilon1989–2000→Tom Kurvers1992–1994→Uwe Krupp1992–1994→Scott Lachance1992–1999→Vladimir Malakhov1993–1995→Kenny Jonsson1996–2004→Bryan Berard1997–2008→Zdeno Chara1998–2022→Roman Hamrlik2001–2004→Adrian Aucoin2002–2004→Radek Martinek2002–2014→Bruno Gervais2006–2011→Mark Streit2009–2013→Andrew MacDonald2009–2014→Travis Hamonic2011–2017→Calvin de Haan2012–2018→Thomas Hickey2013–2022→Scott Mayfield2014–2026→Johnny Boychuk2015–2020→Nick Leddy2015–2021→Adam Pelech2016–2026→Ryan Pulock2016–2026→Noah Dobson2020–2025→Alexander Romanov2023–2026

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1973–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.