With just a couple weeks to go until the Isles hit the ice for training camp, 24 thoughts for the 24 players with the best chance of making the Opening Night roster:

Anders Lee: Going by the eye test, Lee did not appear to be the same kind of force around the net last season as in the past, but the advanced numbers would contest that claim — he had a career high in individual expected goals and scored 28 for the second straight season. The Islanders need more from him on the power play, though, as he scored just six times at five-on-four last season.

Bo Horvat: Lou Lamoriello bought high on Horvat, whose shooting percentage with Vancouver last season was a career-high 21.7 percent, then dropped to 8.1 percent with the Isles, and he admitted he needed to be doing more. Horvat’s track record says we should expect a rate somewhere between the two — around 14 or 15 percent. That would count as a success for the Islanders.

Mathew Barzal: We got just seven games of Barzal playing next to Horvat during the regular season before Barzal went down with a knee injury. A lot of this season’s ceiling will be dictated by the longer-term results of that partnership and whether Barzal sticks as a winger.