{"id":431771,"date":"2025-12-07T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431771\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:59:13","slug":"islanders-back-to-back-gameday-eyes-on-the-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431771\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Back-to-Back Gameday: Eyes on the Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It wasn\u2019t pretty (other than Ilya Sorokin\u2019s saves and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/short-shifts\/islanders-calum-ritchie-goal-of-season-between-legs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calum Ritchie\u2019s cheeky finish<\/a>), but the Isles pulled it off again to collect two regulation points and stun the Lightning in Tampa. Their march against recent Cup winners and their back-to-back weekend continues early this evening with a visit to the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Florida is also playing back-to-back, though without travel, after getting past the Blue Jackets in a wild 7-6 OT affair yesterday that Columbus coach Dean Evason <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/entire-game-was-a-joke-blue-jackets-evason-left-fuming-after-loss-to-panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called \u201ca joke.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">J-G Pageau is a candidate to return, though Jonathan Drouin is not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/2025-12-06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday\u2019s dozen games<\/a> also included the Rangers taking the Avalanche to OT, the Bruins defeating the Devils. Everyone in the East is going to be crowded this Christmastime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn\u2019t pretty (other than Ilya Sorokin\u2019s saves and Calum Ritchie\u2019s cheeky finish), but the Isles pulled it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":431772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[120352,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-431771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-bits-o-islanders-news","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115680298037190101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431771","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=431771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}