{"id":682440,"date":"2026-10-09T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/682440\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:24:13","slug":"lightning-visit-the-islanders-after-carlsons-2-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/682440\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning visit the Islanders after Carlson&#8217;s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/tampa-bay-lightning-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> (3-1, in the Atlantic Division) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/new-york-islanders-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a> (2-2, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Elmont, New York; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning visit the New York Islanders after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/john-carlson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Carlson<\/a> scored two goals in the Lightning&#8217;s 3-2 win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/minnesota-wild-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">New York had a 43-34-5 record overall and a 22-17-2 record in home games last season. The Islanders scored 229 total goals last season (40 power-play goals and nine shorthanded goals).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Tampa Bay went 50-26-6 overall and 26-12-6 on the road last season. The Lightning had a +57 goal differential last season, scoring 286 goals while giving up 229.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Islanders: Mathew Barzal: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/alexander-romanov-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Romanov<\/a>: out (acl).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Lightning: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/emil-martinsen-lilleberg-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emil Lilleberg<\/a>: out (undisclosed), Dominic James: day to day (hand), Yanni Gourde: out (hip).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Tampa Bay Lightning (3-1, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders (2-2, in the Metropolitan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[6686,6713,56683,5,281,189,285,159,4,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":["post-682440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-alexander-romanov","tag-emil-lilleberg","tag-event_preview","tag-hockey","tag-john-carlson","tag-lightning","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117409996063366747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682440","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=682440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}