The idea that Anthony Duclair would walk in this season as if he hadn’t missed a step, put the injury-addled mess that was 2024-25 behind him and be the 25-goal, 40-plus-point player the Islanders thought they were signing in July 2024 was always fanciful, even for the most optimistic observer.

Still, 11 games into the Islanders’ season, the state of play for Duclair doesn’t look that much better than it did last March, when he was playing his way into coach Patrick Roy’s public ire on a torn groin .

The 30-year-old Duclair has three points in 11 games, and on a per-60-minute basis is barely scraping a better scoring rate than he did last season — 1.1 points vs. 1.0. It’s not just the lack of points, either. Duclair is disappearing for games at a time.

He has an abysmal 35.28 expected

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