New York Islanders (31-21-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New Jersey Devils (28-26-2, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Newark, New Jersey; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders visit the New Jersey Devils after Bo Horvat’s two-goal game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Islanders’ 5-4 overtime win.<\/p>\n
New Jersey is 4-10-2 against the Metropolitan Division and 28-26-2 overall. The Devils have given up 172 goals while scoring 142 for a -30 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
New York is 11-6-2 against the Metropolitan Division and 31-21-5 overall. The Islanders have gone 15-5-0 in one-goal games.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the fourth time these teams meet this season. The Islanders won 9-0 in the previous meeting. Anthony Duclair led the Islanders with three goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jesper Bratt has scored 13 goals with 28 assists for the Devils. Jack Hughes has one goal and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Horvat has 23 goals and 15 assists for the Islanders. Jean-Gabriel Pageau has scored five goals with two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Devils: 5-5-0, averaging 2.2 goals, 3.9 assists, three penalties and 7.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Islanders: 5-5-0, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.9 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Devils: None listed.<\/p>\n
Islanders: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Islanders (31-21-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New Jersey Devils (28-26-2, in the Metropolitan Division) Newark,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[54156,301,5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-444958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-54156","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-islanders","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-islanders","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkislanders","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-hockey","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116011861611473363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444958","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=444958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}