Florida Panthers (35-33-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders (41-27-5, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Elmont, New York; Saturday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders face the Florida Panthers in Eastern Conference action.<\/p>\n
New York has a 20-12-2 record in home games and a 41-27-5 record overall. The Islanders are 14-5-2 in games they score one or more power-play goals.<\/p>\n
Florida has a 16-18-0 record in road games and a 35-33-3 record overall. The Panthers have a 30-8-0 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the third time this season. The Islanders won 5-4 in the last matchup. Matthew Schaefer led the Islanders with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Emil Heineman has scored 20 goals with nine assists for the Islanders. Calum Ritchie has four goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Carter Verhaeghe has 21 goals and 29 assists for the Panthers. Matthew Tkachuk has five goals and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Islanders: 6-4-0, averaging 2.5 goals, 4.2 assists, 2.9 penalties and 8.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Panthers: 5-5-0, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.1 assists, 3.3 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Islanders: Alexander Romanov: out (shoulder), Pierre Engvall: out for season (ankle), Tony DeAngelo: out (lower body), Semyon Varlamov: out for season (knee), Kyle Palmieri: out (knee), Ryan Pulock: day to day (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Panthers: Cole Schwindt: out (lower body), Brad Marchand: out (lower body), Mackie Samoskevich: day to day (neck), Evan Rodrigues: day to day (upper body), Sam Reinhart: day to day (foot), Niko Mikkola: out (knee), Anton Lundell: out (upper-body), Uvis Balinskis: out (foot), Jonah Gadjovich: out (upper body), Aleksander Barkov: out (knee).<\/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":"Florida Panthers (35-33-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders (41-27-5, in the Metropolitan Division) Elmont, New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[60800,301,911,5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-525612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-60800","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-islanders","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-islanders","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkislanders","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-hockey","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116301032647400455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525612","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=525612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}