{"id":253829,"date":"2025-10-31T19:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:12:16","slug":"islanders-promote-top-prospect-cal-ritchie-after-travel-snafu-delays-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253829\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders promote top prospect Cal Ritchie after travel snafu delays debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 His plane made it to D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders called up top prospect Cal Ritchie on Friday before facing the Capitals, a day after Ritchie\u2019s flight to Carolina was reportedly canceled, stopping the team from calling him up to face the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall Warren was sent down to Bridgeport as a corresponding move.<\/p>\n<p>With Mat Barzal set to rejoin the Islanders\u2019 lineup after being healthy-scratched in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/30\/sports\/islanders-beat-by-hurricanes-after-mathew-barzals-benching\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday\u2019s loss to the Hurricanes<\/a> because he missed the team bus, the question is now whether the Isles intend Ritchie to be in the lineup on a more permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.45868946;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37540357\" width=\"861\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cuylle-50-new-york-rangers-112454692_038b73.jpg\" alt=\"Cal Ritchie during an Islanders-Rangers preseason game on Sept. 29, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37540357\"  \/>Cal Ritchie during an Islanders-Rangers preseason game on Sept. 29, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old center, who was acquired from the Avalanche last season in the trade that sent Brock Nelson to Colorado, pushed hard for a roster spot in training camp, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/03\/sports\/islanders-cal-ritchie-exits-with-lower-body-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but was one of the team\u2019s last cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In three games at Bridgeport this season, he has three points and has missed three more games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 His plane made it to D.C. The Islanders called up top prospect Cal Ritchie on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,5791,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-253829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-new-york-islanders","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253829","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=253829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}