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Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press via AP<\/p>\n
New York Islanders (32-21-5, 69 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (32-17-8, 72 pts)<\/p>\n
Venue: Prudential Center
Date: Thursday, February 26
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/TSN2\/RDS\/MSGSN
Radio:\u00a0103.9 FM LI NEWS\/101.9 FM\/TSN 690<\/p>\n
Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n New York Islanders News & Notes:<\/p>\n The Islanders were on a two-game winning streak before the Olympic break. They had won five of their last seven games, averaging 3.3 goals per game while allowing 2.3 goals per game. <\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens News & Notes:<\/p>\n The Canadiens picked up a 5-1 win over the Jets before the break. They had points in five straight games entering the break, averaging 4.4 goals per game while allowing 2.4 goals per game during that stretch. <\/p>\n New York Islanders Projected Lines:<\/p>\n Palat-Horvat-Barzal Schaefer-Pulock Sorokin Get your Isles Hockey merchandise here<\/a><\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens Projected Lines<\/p>\n Caufield-Suzuki-Dach Hutson-Dobson Montembeault Get your Montreal Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n Players To Watch:<\/p>\n New York Islanders<\/p>\n Anders Lee had a point in every game against Montreal last season, finishing with two goals and an assist against them.<\/p>\n Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n Nick Suzuki had a point in each game against the Islanders last season, finishing with a goal and three assists against them.<\/p>\n Injury Report:<\/p>\n New York Islanders<\/p>\n F\u00a0Pierre Engvall<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n F Patrik Laine \u2013 IR Next Game<\/p>\n \tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press via AP New York Islanders (32-21-5, 69 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (32-17-8, 72 pts)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[8493,2216,5,122,2218,21,3328,159,5190,5189,4,5573,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-472909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-anders-lee","9":"tag-atlantic-division","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-islanders","12":"tag-metropolitan-division","13":"tag-montreal-canadiens","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-islanders","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkislanders","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-nhl-game-preview","20":"tag-nick-suzuki"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472909","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=472909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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