{"id":397687,"date":"2026-01-08T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397687\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:59:10","slug":"islanders-gameday-the-journey-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397687\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Gameday: The journey begins\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The hangover (hopefully not) from the Islanders\u2019 raucous and absurd 9-0 romp over the New Jersey Devils Tuesday has hopefully subsided as they begin the first stop in a season-longest seven-game road trip tonight in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They\u2019ll presumably continue without Bo Horvat in the lineup, though he is skating and on the road trip with the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of all the trivia that came out of that singular night, maybe the most depressing was this, per NHL media and the team\u2019s post-game notes: \u201cThe last time the Islanders had two or more hat tricks in a single season was 1993-94 (Pierre Turgeon and Derek King).\u201d Anthony Duclair\u2019s adds to Bo Horvat\u2019s earlier this year to make two in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mathieu Darche on the Daily Faceoff podcast. For your sanity, his appearance begins after the 7-minute mark. For me the most gratifying part was frank recognition of why the team should, you know, provide more media\/social access for fans in a market with a dozen other pro sports teams:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hangover (hopefully not) from the Islanders\u2019 raucous and absurd 9-0 romp over the New Jersey Devils Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397688,"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-397687","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\/115860076254969837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397687","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=397687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}