{"id":393608,"date":"2026-01-06T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393608\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:41:12","slug":"nhl-game-preview-new-jersey-devils-at-new-york-islanders-with-line-combinations-1-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393608\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: New Jersey Devils at New York Islanders with Line Combinations 1\/6\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NHL<\/p>\n

(Photo by: Noah K. Murray-AP)<\/p>\n

New Jersey Devils (22-18-2, 46 pts) at New York Islanders (23-15-4, 50 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: UBS Arena
Date: Tuesday, January 6
Time: 7:30 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+, HULU
Radio:\u00a0101.9 WFAN, 103.9 FM LI News<\/p>\n

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New Jersey Devils News & Notes:<\/p>\n

They lost their last game, 3-1, to the Hurricanes on Sunday. They\u2019re 2-2-1 in their last five games, averaging 2.2 goals per game while allowing 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n

New York Islanders News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Islanders beat the Maple Leafs 4-3 in Overtime on Saturday. They\u2019re 3-2-0 in their last five games, averaging 2.6 goals per game while allowing 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n

New Jersey Devils Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Hughes-Hischier-Bratt
Meirer-Mercer-Gritsyuk
Palat-Glass-Brown
Lammikko-Glendening-Noesen<\/p>\n

Siegenthaler-Hamilton
Hughes-Pesce
Dillon-White<\/p>\n

Markstrom
Allen<\/p>\n

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New York Islanders Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Lee-Barzal-Heineman
Drouin-Pageau-Holmstrom
Gatcomb-Ritchie-Shabanov
Maclean-Cizikas-Duclair<\/p>\n

Schaefer-Pulock
Pelech-DeAngelo
Mayfield-McWard<\/p>\n

Sorokin
Rittich<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

New Jersey Devils<\/p>\n

Jack Hughes<\/a> had a team-high 11 shots for the Devils in an overtime loss to the Islanders back on November 11th, 2025.<\/p>\n

New York Islanders<\/p>\n

Jonathan Drouin<\/a> had an assist and was tied for the team lead in shots in the overtime win over the Devils back on November 11th, when they last met.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

New Jersey Devils<\/p>\n

D\u00a0Johnathan Kovacevic<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F\u00a0Evgenii Dadonov<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
D\u00a0Simon Nemec<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F\u00a0Zack MacEwen<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<\/p>\n

New York Islanders<\/p>\n

F Pierre Engvall<\/a> \u2013 IR
G\u00a0Semyon Varlamov<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
D\u00a0Alexander Romanov<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F\u00a0Kyle Palmieri<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F- Bo Horvat<\/a> -Out
D- Matthew Schaefer<\/a> -DTD<\/p>\n

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JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n

Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: Noah K. Murray-AP) New Jersey Devils (22-18-2, 46 pts) at New York Islanders (23-15-4, 50 pts)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[6686,3669,38981,5,122,1272,1771,1037,776,374,151,3328,159,5190,5189,4,6870,6235,1178,1091],"class_list":["post-393608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-islanders","tag-alexander-romanov","tag-bo-horvat","tag-evgeni-dadonov","tag-hockey","tag-islanders","tag-jack-hughes","tag-johnathan-kovacevic","tag-jonathan-drouin","tag-kyle-palmieri","tag-matthew-schaefer","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl","tag-pierre-engvall","tag-semyon-varlamov","tag-simon-nemec","tag-zack-macewen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115848445047194700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393608","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=393608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}