{"id":530972,"date":"2026-03-30T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:37:14","slug":"nhl-game-preview-pittsburgh-penguins-at-new-york-islanders-with-line-combinations-03-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530972\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins at New York Islanders with Line Combinations 03\/30\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NHL<\/p>\n

(Photo by: Heather Khalifa-AP)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins (36-21-16, 88 pts) at New York Islanders (42-27-5, 89 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: UBS Arena
Date: Monday, March 30
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch: NHL Network, MSGSN
Radio:\u00a0105.9 The X\/ WRHU 88.7 FM, 103.9 FM LI New Radio <\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh Penguins News & Notes:<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh lost its last game 6-3 to the Dallas Stars on Saturday. In their previous five games, the Penguins have a 2-3-0 record, scoring three goals per game while allowing 4.4. The Penguins are a game behind the Islanders for the second seed in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n

New York Islanders News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Islanders beat the Florida Panthers on Saturday, 5-2. In their last five games, New York has a 3-2-0 record, scoring 2.8 goals per game while conceding two. New York has a one-point lead over the Penguins for the second seed in the Metropolitan Division entering play Monday.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Mantha-Crosby-Rakell-
Chinakov-Malkin-Rust
Novak-Kindel-Brazeau
McGroarty-Dewar-Koivunen<\/p>\n

Wotherspoon-Karlsson
Girard-Letang
Shea-Clifton<\/p>\n

Skinner
Silovs<\/p>\n

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New York Islanders Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Lee-Horvat-Heineman
Ritchie-Schenn-Barzal
Palat-Pageu-Holmstrom
Maclean-Cizikas-Gatcomb<\/p>\n

Schaefer-Pulock
Pelech-Soucy
Mayfield-Boqvist<\/p>\n

Sorokin
Rittich<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

Anthony Mantha<\/a> had a goal in the Penguins\u2019 5-4 overtime loss to the Islanders in their last meeting, back on February 3rd.<\/p>\n

New York Islanders<\/p>\n

Bo Horvat<\/a> had two goals, including the game-winner in overtime for the Islanders in their 5-4 overtime win in the last meeting with the Penguins on February 3rd.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

C\u00a0Filip Hallander<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
G\u00a0Joel Blomqvist<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
D\u00a0Jack St. Ivany<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F Evgeni Malkin \u2013 DTD
F Sidney Crosby \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

New York Islanders<\/p>\n

C\u00a0Kyle Palmieri<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
G Semyon Varlamov \u2013 IR
F Pierre Engvall \u2013 IR
D Alexander Romanov \u2013 IR
F Anthony Duclair -DTD
D Tony DeAngelo \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

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JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n

Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: Heather Khalifa-AP) Pittsburgh Penguins (36-21-16, 88 pts) at New York Islanders (42-27-5, 89 pts) Venue: UBS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[6686,5976,10448,3669,1495,2522,5,1610,98,776,159,4,5573,118,6870,1469,100,5216,6235,768,5891],"class_list":{"0":"post-530972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-alexander-romanov","9":"tag-anthony-duclair","10":"tag-anthony-mantha","11":"tag-bo-horvat","12":"tag-evgeni-malkin","13":"tag-filip-hallander","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-jack-st-ivany","16":"tag-joel-blomqvist","17":"tag-kyle-palmieri","18":"tag-new-york-islanders","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nhl-game-preview","21":"tag-penguins","22":"tag-pierre-engvall","23":"tag-pittsburgh","24":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","25":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","26":"tag-semyon-varlamov","27":"tag-sidney-crosby","28":"tag-tony-deangelo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116318166702378294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530972","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=530972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}