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New York Islanders (29-19-5, 63 pts) at New York Rangers (22-26-6, 50 pts)<\/p>\n
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Date: Wednesday, January 29
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: MSG, MSGSN2
Radio: ESPN 880 AM<\/p>\n
New York Islanders News & Notes:<\/p>\n
The New York Islanders head to Madison Square Garden to face the New York Rangers on Thursday for the second half of a back-to-back set, with an opportunity to sweep the season series over their crosstown rivals. New York is averaging 2.85 goals per game, while allowing 2.70 goals per game.<\/p>\n
New York Rangers News & Notes:<\/p>\n
This is the fourth and final regular season meeting between the Islanders and Rangers in the 2025-26 campaign. The Islanders will look to sweep the season series against the Rangers after winning 5-2 in the first game of a back-to-back last night. New York is averaging 2.65 goals per game while allowing 3.15 goals per game.<\/p>\n
New York Islanders Projected Lines:<\/p>\n
Palat \u2013 Horvat \u2013 Heineman
Drouin \u2013 Barzal \u2013 Duclair
Lee \u2013 Pageau \u2013 Holmstrom
MacLean \u2013 Cizikas \u2013 Gatcomb<\/p>\n
Schaefer \u2013 Pulock
Pelech \u2013 DeAngelo
Soucy \u2013 Mayfield<\/p>\n
Sorokin
Rittich<\/p>\n
New York Rangers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n
Miller \u2013 Zibanejad \u2013 Perreault
Cuylle \u2013 Trocheck \u2013 Lafreniere
Othmann \u2013 Laba \u2013 Raddysh
Brodzinski- Carrick \u2013 Rempe<\/p>\n
Gavrikov \u2013 Schneider
Robertson \u2013 Borgen
Vaakanainen \u2013 Morrow<\/p>\n
Quick
Martin<\/p>\n
Players To Watch:<\/p>\n
New York Islanders<\/p>\n
Ondrej Palat<\/a> notched two points in his Islanders debut. Palat opened Wednesday\u2019s scoring with a power-play goal in the 5-2 win over the Rangers.<\/p>\n New York Rangers<\/p>\n Mika Zibanejad<\/a> leads New York with 22 goals and ranks second with 50 points this season. The Rangers forward has totaled at least 50 points in each of his last eight seasons.<\/p>\n Injury Report:<\/p>\n New York Islanders<\/p>\n C Calum Ritchie<\/a> \u2013 C New York Rangers<\/p>\n LW Artemi Panarin<\/a> \u2013 OUT Next Game:<\/p>\n Islanders- January 31, against Nashville Predators \tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo via NHLPA New York Islanders (29-19-5, 63 pts) at New York Rangers (22-26-6, 50 pts) Venue: Madison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,160,3328,159,5190,5189,4,5573,1768],"class_list":{"0":"post-434728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-islanders","10":"tag-mika-zibanejad","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkislanders","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-game-preview","17":"tag-ondrej-palat"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115979917554372995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434728","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=434728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
C Kyle Palmieri<\/a> \u2013 IR<\/p>\n
D Adam Fox <\/a>\u2013 IR
G Igor Shesterkin<\/a> \u2013 IR
LW Conor Sheary<\/a> \u2013 IR
C Adam Edstrom<\/a> \u2013 IR<\/p>\n
Rangers \u2013 January 31, at Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n