Still searching for their first victory at Nassau Coliseum in 2000, the reeling Islanders will welcome Gino Odjick back for his first game of the calendar year when they play host to the Senators this afternoon.

Odjick, who just served the final game of an eight-game suspension for his blind-side punch on Pittsburgh’s Darius Kasparaitis Dec. 30, rejoins a team that managed only one victory in his absence, that coming on Jan. 8 in Boston.

The Isles are 0-3-1 at home in 2000, falling last to the Rangers 5-2 Saturday.

Isles yesterday recalled wingers Mike Watt and Dmitri Nabokov from their Lowell farm.