{"id":531855,"date":"2026-03-30T23:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/531855\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:02:41","slug":"penguins-sidney-crosby-to-return-vs-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/531855\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins&#8217; Sidney Crosby to return vs. Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"pittsburgh-penguins\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> will be getting a big boost in their lineup for Monday&#8217;s big game against the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby missed Saturday&#8217;s loss to the Dallas Stars with an upper-body injury suffered during the Penguins&#8217; previous game against the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear what caused Crosby to leave the game.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby played 6:39 before he was forced to exit. It was just his fifth game back with the Penguins after suffering an injury during the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins captain has a team-leading 64 points and 28 goals in 61 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins enter Monday&#8217;s game against the Islanders sitting third in the Metro with 88 points \u2014 just one behind New York and tied with the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins will be getting a big boost in their lineup for Monday&#8217;s big game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-531855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-islanders","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkislanders","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116320622851117415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531855","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=531855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}