{"id":160801,"date":"2025-09-22T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160801\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:18:10","slug":"1-player-on-every-nhl-team-to-get-excited-about-ahead-of-the-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160801\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Player on Every NHL Team to Get Excited About Ahead of the 2025-26 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It&#8217;s been a year of change for the New York Islanders, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/mathieu-darche-hired-as-new-york-islanders-general-manager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">replacing<\/a> general manager Lou Lamoriello with Mathieu Darche and trading forward Brock Nelson <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/brock-nelson-traded-to-avalanche-by-islanders#:~:text=Brock%20Nelson%20was%20traded%20to,in%20the%202028%20NHL%20Draft.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">to Colorado<\/a> and defenseman Noah Dobson <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/noah-dobson-traded-to-canadiens-by-islanders-gets-eight-year-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">to Montr\u00e9al<\/a>.  After missing the playoffs last year, they hope to bounce back as a postseason contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ilya Sorokin will play a significant role in the Islanders&#8217; playoff hopes. The 6&#8217;4&#8243;, 211-pound goaltender put up solid numbers for his struggling club last season, sporting a record of 30 wins, 24 losses, and six overtime losses, with a 2.71 goals-against average, a .907 save percentage, and four shutouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A finalist for the Vezina Trophy <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/records.nhl.com\/awards\/trophies\/vezina-trophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">in 2022-23<\/a>, Sorokin is listed by NHL.com as the sixth-best goaltender <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/video\/top-10-goalies-right-now-ilya-sorokin-6378438742112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">entering this season<\/a>. The Islanders will always have a chance to win whenever he&#8217;s between the pipes, and a strong effort on his part this season could propel them back into the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a year of change for the New York Islanders, replacing general manager Lou Lamoriello with Mathieu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-160801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}