Islanders’ approach with Pierre Engvall can’t continue

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Pierre Engvall has been back with the Islanders for all of five days and it is already becoming a question of how long this situation will be tolerable for either side.

The hope, as expressed by Lou Lamoriello on Saturday, was that Engvall took his initial demotion to the AHL at the end of training camp as a wake-up call and applied himself in a more consistent way, proving he should be in the lineup every night and helping the Islanders win games.

Instead, Engvall was invisible in consecutive games and coach Patrick Roy’s comments about him afterwards caused uncomfortable storylines for the Islanders to circulate around social media on both occasions.

First, on Saturday: “Pierre, we know what he did in the past two years. I guess Lou thought it was a good moment for him to be back and play.”