{"id":495401,"date":"2026-03-09T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/495401\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:11:21","slug":"preview-blues-vs-islanders-st-louis-blues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/495401\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Blues vs. Islanders | St. Louis Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a Streak:<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Blues and New York Islanders will meet for the second and final time this season as the Blues look to keep the wins coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Blues return home from a 4-0 road trip, most recently earning a dominant 4\u20130 shutout against the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday. The victory also marked just the third time in franchise history that St. Louis has completed a perfect four-game road trip sweep.<\/p>\n<p>New York enters the contest in the final game of its own four-game road swing, aiming to continue building momentum in its post-break playoff push. The Islanders have won four of their last six games and currently hold the third playoff spot in the Metropolitan Division with 77 points.<\/p>\n<p>It will be an emotional night as St. Louis welcomes back Brayden Schenn. The former Blues captain will be making his first trip to Enterprise Center as a visitor since being traded at the deadline last week. The forward played 17:26 in his Islanders debut, a 2-1 overtime win in San Jose on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a Streak: The St. Louis Blues and New York Islanders will meet for the second and final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-495401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheimducks","11":"tag-ducks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116201517134062854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495401","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=495401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}