{"id":81584,"date":"2025-06-19T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/81584\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:45:10","slug":"islanders-need-to-get-back-to-having-an-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/81584\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders need to get back to having an edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Islanders, unlike, say, the Maple Leafs or Hurricanes, probably do not need to view their problems through the lens of trying to beat the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Having missed the playoffs entirely this past season, the Islanders <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/29\/sports\/mathieu-darche-has-to-fix-everything-as-new-islanders-gm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are too far off<\/a> to view their window of opportunity as lining up with Florida\u2019s run of dominance in the Eastern Conference. They need to build up a core instead of wondering whether the clock will run out on one.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are lessons to be learned from the Panthers\u2019 unflinching and relentless run <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/17\/sports\/panthers-beat-oilers-in-game-6-to-capture-second-straight-stanley-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to back-to-back Stanley Cups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably the most impressive pair of numbers on Florida\u2019s statistical r\u00e9sum\u00e9: The Panthers ended the regular season second overall in Corsi For percentage while leading the league in raw hit totals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders, unlike, say, the Maple Leafs or Hurricanes, probably do not need to view their problems through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[57,5,3521,122,8563,2595,3328,159,5190,5189,4,2541,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-81584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-florida-panthers","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-inside-the-islanders","11":"tag-islanders","12":"tag-jean-gabriel-pageau","13":"tag-mathieu-darche","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-islanders","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkislanders","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","20":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114709864391331923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81584","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=81584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}