{"id":388267,"date":"2026-01-03T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388267\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:20:10","slug":"islanders-gameday-brother-can-you-spare-more-than-two-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388267\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Gameday: Brother, can you spare more than two goals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Islanders host the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday night on Long Island with a couple more lineup updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Marshall Warren has been returned to Bridgeport, which \u2014 along with yesterday\u2019s practice \u2014 would seem to indicate another run of Adam Boqvist on his offhand on the third pair with Scott Mayfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And Bo Horvat, as expected, is out after leaving the Mammoth loss injured. Patrick Roy said he won\u2019t play \u201cthis week\u201d so hopefully that means a shorter term on the shelf, though maybe it means they\u2019re trying to avoid surgery but won\u2019t know until whatever he hurt has a chance to calm down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Finally, Ilya Sorokin is \u201cavailable,\u201d as they say in the Premier League, and will back up David Rittich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Beyond all that, there is the matter that the Islanders have gone eight games without scoring more than two goals, leading to some line shuffling by Patrick Roy yesterday:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Leafs are coming off a big comeback \u2014 three goals down \u2014 win over the Jets, where Auston Matthews had a hat trick to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/winnipeg-jets-toronto-maple-leafs-game-recap-january-1-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pass Pat LaFontaine<\/a> for most hat tricks by an American. The Leafs have rebounded lately to climb to two points shy of the wild card in the East\u2019s Crapola Soup, but they are again without Chris Tanev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders host the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday night on Long Island with a couple more lineup updates.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[26255,5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-388267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-bits-o-islanders-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-islanders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkislanders","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115830903592987553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388267","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=388267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}