{"id":386075,"date":"2026-01-02T05:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386075\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:47:10","slug":"islanders-lack-of-scoring-is-real-problem-they-need-to-fix-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386075\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders&#8217; lack of scoring is real problem they need to fix \u2014 fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You almost have to give the Islanders credit. It\u2019s a hard thing to go nine games without scoring more than two goals and not have the ensuing results be a total disaster. Harder still when the No. 1 goalie is hurt for a chunk of that period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The longer the Islanders walked that tightrope, though, the harder it became to stay on it, and on Thursday they finally went down in flames, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/01\/sports\/islanders-start-new-year-with-embarrassing-loss-to-mammoth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7-2 to the Mammoth<\/a> in a listless performance on both ends of the ice that marked their largest margin of defeat this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost battles, one-on-one battles, where we should have been better in those areas,\u201d coach Patrick Roy said. \u201cTake some penalties, offensive-zone penalties. Too many men. These details, at some point, will hurt you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minus the ability to score, the Islanders have been asking for near perfection from every other part of their game, and the good news \u2014 for now \u2014 is that a couple of rough nights in a row in the defensive zone can still be called an anomaly.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You almost have to give the Islanders credit. It\u2019s a hard thing to go nine games without scoring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4,43,350,336,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-386075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-islanders","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkislanders","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-utah-hockey-club"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115823931808158756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}