Chicago Blackhawks (26-31-13, in the Central Division) vs. New York Islanders (40-26-5, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Elmont, New York; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders play the Chicago Blackhawks in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
New York has a 19-11-2 record at home and a 40-26-5 record overall. The Islanders are 14-5-2 in games they score at least one power-play goal.<\/p>\n
Chicago has a 26-31-13 record overall and a 13-15-6 record on the road. The Blackhawks have a -40 scoring differential, with 180 total goals scored and 220 given up.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Islanders won the previous matchup 3-2 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Matthew Schaefer has 22 goals and 29 assists for the Islanders. Emil Heineman has five goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Frank Nazar has 11 goals and 23 assists for the Blackhawks. Connor Bedard has four goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Islanders: 5-5-0, averaging 2.4 goals, 3.9 assists, 3.2 penalties and 8.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: 3-3-4, averaging 2.2 goals, 3.9 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Islanders: Alexander Romanov: out (shoulder), Pierre Engvall: out for season (ankle), Anthony Duclair: day to day (lower-body), Semyon Varlamov: out for season (knee), Kyle Palmieri: out (knee), Ryan Pulock: day to day (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: Shea Weber: out for season (ankle), Andrew Mangiapane: day to day (undisclosed), Oliver Moore: out (lower body), Sacha Boisvert: day to day (not injury related ), Matt Grzelcyk: out (upper-body).<\/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":"Chicago Blackhawks (26-31-13, in the Central Division) vs. New York Islanders (40-26-5, in the Metropolitan Division) Elmont, New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[60274,301,911,521,37,96,5263,5,4,292,43],"class_list":["post-518223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chicago-blackhawks","tag-60274","tag-article","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-blackhawks","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-chicagoblackhawks","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116277890715249593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518223","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=518223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}