{"id":21204,"date":"2025-06-28T07:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21204\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T07:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:17:13","slug":"islanders-fans-celebrate-in-grand-fashion-at-2025-nhl-draft-party-at-ubs-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21204\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders fans celebrate in grand fashion at 2025 NHL Draft party at UBS Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathieu Darche <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/24\/sports\/mathieu-darche-leaves-door-open-to-islanders-dream-draft-scenario\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called the shots<\/a> from the makeshift war room in the Islanders\u2019 dressing room at UBS Arena. Just a few dozen yards away, a packed house of fans reacted to his every move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fans filled the arena\u2019s floor and the lower bowl for Friday\u2019s NHL draft party as the Islanders began a new era by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/27\/sports\/islanders-make-matthew-schaefer-no-1-pick-in-2025-nhl-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">selecting Matthew Schaefer with the top pick<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The clear sentiments from those in attendance: excitement and optimism at the selections of Schaefer, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/27\/sports\/islanders-draft-victor-eklund-kashawn-aitcheson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Eklund (16th overall) and Kashawn Aitcheson (17th)<\/a>, mixed with a tinge of disappointment that Darche could not trade up for Long Island native James Hagens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was little surprise or shock from the crowd when the Islanders took Schaefer, but that did nothing to subdue the raucous cheers when the team officially picked the 17-year-old defenseman from Stoney Creek, Ontario.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mathieu Darche called the shots from the makeshift war room in the Islanders\u2019 dressing room at UBS Arena.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7834,405,403,1301,5226,5225,293,8993,5228,5227,19608,62,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-21204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-nassau-county","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-draft","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-parties","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114759771425105889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}