{"id":547675,"date":"2026-04-08T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:31:11","slug":"islanders-news-falling-further-lighthouse-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547675\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders News: Falling further\u2026 | Lighthouse Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tuesday night\u2019s Eastern Conference results were not great for the Islanders as the Ottawa Senators beat the Atlantic-leading Tampa Bay Lightning (with a five-goal third period!) in regulation and the Red Wings and Blue Jackets had a three-point game, with Detroit falling via shootout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But at least we know where everyone stands with four games to go, as those results consumed the final games in hand hanging over the Isles\u2019 heads:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Today is Pete DeBoer\u2019s third and final day of trying to orient the team before the games resume Thursday against the Leafs. It\u2019s only three days and it\u2019s only four games, but it will be fascinating to see what DeBoer does with the structure and the lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alex Ovechkin will decide this summer whether to continue. Won\u2019t we all. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/capitals-alex-ovechkin-to-decide-on-future-in-off-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A goalfest between Utah and Edmonton could be a playoff preview. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/oilers-lose-to-motivated-mammoth-in-possible-playoff-preview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday night\u2019s Eastern Conference results were not great for the Islanders as the Ottawa Senators beat the Atlantic-leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[26255,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-547675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-bits-o-islanders-news","9":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116370046103340378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547675","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=547675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}