Columbus Blue Jackets (37-21-11, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New York Islanders (39-26-5, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Elmont, New York; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Blue Jackets -115, Islanders -104; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Columbus Blue Jackets visit the New York Islanders seeking to continue a four-game win streak.<\/p>\n New York is 13-6-2 against the Metropolitan Division and 39-26-5 overall. The Islanders have gone 14-5-2 in games they score one or more power-play goals.<\/p>\n Columbus is 10-7-4 against the Metropolitan Division and 37-21-11 overall. The Blue Jackets have gone 34-4-8 when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n The teams square off Sunday for the fourth time this season. The Islanders won 4-3 in overtime in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Emil Heineman has scored 20 goals with eight assists for the Islanders. Matthew Schaefer has four goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Charlie Coyle has 17 goals and 38 assists for the Blue Jackets. Adam Fantilli has five goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Islanders: 5-5-0, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.5 assists, 3.5 penalties and 9.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n Blue Jackets: 7-0-3, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.5 assists, 3.8 penalties and 10.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Islanders: Alexander Romanov: out (shoulder), Pierre Engvall: out for season (ankle), Semyon Varlamov: out for season (knee), Kyle Palmieri: out (knee), Max Shabanov: day to day (lower-body).<\/p>\n Blue Jackets: Brendan Smith: out (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets (37-21-11, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New York Islanders (39-26-5, in the Metropolitan Division) Elmont,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[1942,6686,911,10786,1285,230,37676,3427,5,122,776,374,35971,3328,7763,159,5190,5189,4,292,2225,5188,6870,6235,43],"class_list":["post-517425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-islanders","tag-adam-fantilli","tag-alexander-romanov","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-brendan-smith","tag-charlie-coyle","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-data-skrive","tag-emil-heineman","tag-hockey","tag-islanders","tag-kyle-palmieri","tag-matthew-schaefer","tag-max-shabanov","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-oh-state-wire","tag-ohio","tag-pierre-engvall","tag-semyon-varlamov","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116275276928830552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517425","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=517425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}