{"id":398410,"date":"2026-01-08T22:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/398410\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:51:26","slug":"how-islanders-goal-fest-evoked-one-of-franchises-tastiest-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/398410\/","title":{"rendered":"How Islanders goal-fest evoked one of franchise&#8217;s tastiest nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2014 Toward the end of Anthony Duclair\u2019s scrum with reporters Tuesday night, a reporter asked whether he ever had seen a promotion tied to a hat trick like the one the Islanders ran in their 9-0 win against the Devils at UBS Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Duclair, who had <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/06\/sports\/anthony-duclair-scores-hat-trick-in-islanders-destruction-of-devils\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scored three goals in a game<\/a> for the first time since 2019, prompting a 30 percent off sale on hats at the team store, said he had not.<\/p>\n<p>Had the Islanders scored a 10th goal, which would have been their first time reaching double digits since 1984, whichever business executive made the call on the hat sale would have faced another question: How quickly could the Islanders get Wendy\u2019s on the phone?<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 13, 1979 was, maybe, one of the only days of the pre-Internet era when that would have been easier than it is now, because, famously, a Wendy\u2019s executive already was in attendance at Nassau Coliseum that night to watch the Rangers face the Islanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2014 Toward the end of Anthony Duclair\u2019s scrum with reporters Tuesday night, a reporter asked whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5976,5,3521,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4,2541,43,336,50533],"class_list":["post-398410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-islanders","tag-anthony-duclair","tag-hockey","tag-inside-the-islanders","tag-islanders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wendys"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115861932322670329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398410","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=398410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}