New York Islanders Top 50 Players All-Time

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UNIONDALE, NY – NOVEMBER 22: Former New York Islander Billy Smith is honored prior to the New York Islanders game against the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on November 22, 2014 in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) /

4. Billy Smith (371 points)

What’s not to like about Billy Smith? He played an aggressive style of, stopped a ton of rubber and backstopped the Isles to four back-to-back cups. In 17 seasons with the Islanders Smith averaged a 3.16 GAA and a .882 SV%. Great numbers for the era he played in, where seven goals in a game was an average night.

Getting Smith fourth overall in the 1972 expansion draft was a stroke of genius by then GM Bill Torrey.