It was strange to hear Pete DeBoer note on Wednesday that the Islanders are about one-sixth of the way through the season. Not because he was wrong, but because 14 games out of 84 still feels like nothing.
There’s a difference, though, between it still being early in the season and the sample size being so small as to be meaningless.
We still have plenty of unanswered questions, but there are some things we can start to state definitively.
So, in that spirit, here are five things I know and five things I don’t about the Islanders so far.


