{"id":520683,"date":"2026-03-24T19:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/520683\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:44:32","slug":"islanders-gameday-big-night-in-eastern-playoff-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/520683\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Gameday: Big night in Eastern playoff race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s another huge night in the playoff race in the Eastern Conference, with the Islanders hosting another \u201cgotta get these points\u201d opponent in the Chicago Blackhawks, who are finishing out another chapter of their multi-year tank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The only game last night was unhelpful to the Isles, as the Smurfs managed all of 9 shots on goal in falling at home to the Senators. So, heading into tonight, Montreal (3rd\/Metro, 86) Pittsburgh (2nd\/Metro, 86), Columbus (3rd\/Metro, 85), Boston (WC1, 86), Long Island (WC2, 85), and outsiders Detroit (84) and Ottawa (83) are separated by a range of three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And all of those teams have one game in hand on the Isles, who have 11 remaining to play. All of them are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/2026-03-24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in action tonight<\/a>, a great night for scoreboard watching and shouting at numbers on a screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s another huge night in the playoff race in the Eastern Conference, with the Islanders hosting another \u201cgotta&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26255,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-520683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-bits-o-islanders-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116285870213963751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520683","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=520683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}