{"id":549045,"date":"2026-04-09T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549045\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:30:23","slug":"islanders-vs-maple-leafs-game-79-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549045\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders vs. Maple Leafs [Game #79 thread]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A week to go, all the main teams in action and the Islanders with perhaps their most beatable opponent of the remaining four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s the expected lineup and combos, with Max Shabanov staying in, Mat Barzal playing center, Tony DeAngelo returning from injury, and Kyle MacLean sitting out:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Anders Lee \u2013 Bo Horvat \u2013 Simon Holmstrom<br \/>Brayden Schenn \u2013 Mathew Barzal \u2013 Cal Ritchie<br \/>Max Shabanov \u2013 JG Pageau \u2013 Emil Heineman<br \/>Ondrej Palat \u2013 Casey Cizikas \u2013 Marc Gatcomb<br \/>Anthony Duclair, Kyle MacLean<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Matthew Schaefer \u2013 Ryan Pulock<br \/>Adam Pelech \u2013 Tony DeAngelo<br \/>Carson Soucy \u2013 Scott Mayfield<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is our game thread. Don\u2019t get all upset and fire somebody over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week to go, all the main teams in action and the Islanders with perhaps their most beatable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[38215,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-549045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-game-threads","9":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116377119880168340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549045","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=549045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}