{"id":288405,"date":"2025-10-09T05:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288405\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T05:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:09:11","slug":"game-preview-islanders-at-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288405\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Islanders at Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROJECTED LINEUP<\/strong><\/p>\n

*Lines subject to change<\/p>\n

Drouin – Horvat \u2013 Heineman
Lee – Barzal \u2013 Palmieri
Shabanov – Pageau \u2013 Holmstrom
Duclair – Cizikas \u2013 Tsyplakov<\/p>\n

Pelech \u2013 Pulock
Romanov \u2013 DeAngelo
Schaefer – Mayfield<\/p>\n

Sorokin
Rittich<\/p>\n

WELCOME TO THE NHL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matthew Schaefer<\/a> and Max Shabanov<\/a> are primed to make their NHL debuts on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Schaefer earned a spot on the Islanders roster after a training camp where he impressed with his skating, poise and maturity. The first-overall pick will become the youngest player in the NHL this season and will be the youngest defenseman in Islanders history at 18-years and 34-days-old.<\/p>\n

Shabanov\u2019s NHL debut comes after four seasons of professional hockey in Russia for the KHL\u2019s Traktor Chelyabinsk. The skilled winger is coming off a 23-goal, 67-point season in Russia.<\/p>\n

A PAIR OF ISLES DEBUTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emil Heineman<\/a> and Jonathan Drouin<\/a> will also debut for the Islanders.<\/p>\n

Drouin, who was acquired from the Colorado Avalanche ahead of the NHL Trade Deadline, will wear an Islanders jersey to kick off his 12th NHL season. Drouin collected 93 points (30G, 63A) in two seasons with the Avalanche and is expected to boost the power play, as he racked up 31 power-play points across those two seasons.<\/p>\n

Heineman is primed to make his Islanders debut, coming off a season where he produced 18 points (10G, 8A) for the Montreal Canadiens. The 23-yar-old has been touted for his heavy and accurate shot though training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PROJECTED LINEUP *Lines subject to change Drouin – Horvat \u2013 HeinemanLee – Barzal \u2013 PalmieriShabanov – Pageau \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":288406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-288405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288405","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=288405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}