WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Add another injury onto the pile.
Pierre Engvall was out of the lineup for Tuesday’s 4-2 Islanders loss to the Jets with an upper-body injury and declared day-to-day by the team.
Engvall joins Ryan Pulock, Semyon Varlamov, Casey Cizikas and Robert Bortuzzo on a shelf that has been occupied by a rotating cast since opening night.
Without him, and in the wake of Monday’s disastrous 5-0 loss to the Wild, Isles coach Lane Lambert shook up the lineup against the Jets.
Bo Horvat and Mat Barzal were re-separated with Oliver Wahlstrom back on the right side of Horvat.
Barzal skated between Simon Holmstrom and Cal Clutterbuck on the third line while Hudson Fasching was moved up to the second line with Brock Nelson and Kyle Palmieri.
Julien Gauthier skated on the fourth line with Matt Martin and Jean-Gabriel Pageau.
The prognosis on Engvall, who skated 14:54 on Monday night, amounted to a shoulder shrug.
“We have two days before [playing the Blackhawks] so we’ll see,” Lambert said, asked about Engvall’s status for Friday’s game.
Ilya Sorokin started for the second consecutive day on Tuesday after the Islanders pulled him for the final 20 minutes of Monday’s loss in hopes of saving his energy, stopping 40 of 43 shots.
One of the goals he did let up came on a freak play when Sorokin lost a skate blade and as a result could not get over to contest Neal Pionk’s shot on the power play at 15:19 of the second period.
“It’s just unfortunate,” Lambert said. “We’ve had a couple of interesting goals on this trip. When you’re fighting it a little bit or struggling a little bit, sometimes these things happen. The ally-oop goal [at the end of the game] in Nashville and tonight this one here.
“We just have to make sure we find a way here. Stay positive and keep going.”
Varlamov has been on the ice once in his recovery from a lower-body injury, Lambert said.
Pulock, Cizikas and Bortuzzo have all yet to begin skating.
Jets winger Kyle Connor returned to the lineup for his first game since Dec. 10, with Mark Scheifele going on injured reserve to open up a roster spot for the former 40-goal scorer.