{"id":473115,"date":"2026-02-26T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/473115\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:48:37","slug":"islanders-gameday-at-last-post-olympic-sprint-begins-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/473115\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Gameday (at last!): Post-Olympic sprint begins in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019re back! Or rather, they\u2019re back. The Islanders face a compressed post-Olympic schedule, with 24 games to go and re-entering play in third place in the Metro, with several teams nipping at their heels. Things begin tonight vs. the Canadiens in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Your picks for the First Islanders Goal in three weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousehockey.com\/post\/HaCCfmC9Kkas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/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\/2026-02-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last night\u2019s games<\/a> included gold medalist Tage Thompson\u2019s Sabres getting past his gold medal teammate Jack Hughes\u2019 Devils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re back! Or rather, they\u2019re back. The Islanders face a compressed post-Olympic schedule, with 24 games to go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[26255,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-473115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-bits-o-islanders-news","9":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116137486094886992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473115","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=473115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}