{"id":425481,"date":"2026-01-24T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/425481\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:07:11","slug":"islanders-matinee-news-sabres-are-good-now-bos-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/425481\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Matinee News: Sabres are good now, Bo\u2019s back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Islanders are back from the road and primed for that classic \u201cfirst game after the trip\u201d letdown, although several games on their Western sojourn were a letdown, so hopefully they don\u2019t feel like they can ease into things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meeting them this afternoon in Elmont are the Buffalo Sabres, who have been on an absolute tear taking them from the basement to passing the Islanders in the Eastern standings. The roster\u2019s the same, so the fired Kevyn Adams must be wondering what it was about him that they were able to turn it on as soon as the GM was fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There was some lineup news from practice yesterday as Bo Horvat was a full participant and is expected to play today. Ryan Pulock, however, is listed as day to day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/2026-01-23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last night\u2019s NHL scores<\/a> included the Flyers, Devils and Capitals picking up wins \u2014 and yes, Mitch Marner was booed in Toronto and yes Vegas beat the Leafs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A \u201ctense\u201d reunion as boos \u201crained down\u201d on Marner. Barbarians. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/maple-leafs-faithful-rain-jeers-down-upon-marner-in-tense-reunion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders are back from the road and primed for that classic \u201cfirst game after the trip\u201d letdown,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425482,"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-425481","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\/115949997064809526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425481","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=425481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}