{"id":318993,"date":"2025-11-30T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318993\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:37:24","slug":"nhl-star-plays-through-acl-tear-and-sets-up-goal-in-remarkable-display-of-toughness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318993\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL star plays through ACL tear and sets up goal in remarkable display of toughness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-205\/isabel-baldwin.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ISABEL BALDWIN, US ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  09:44 EST, 30 November 2025   |  Updated:  09:44 EST, 30 November 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">New York Islanders star Kyle Palmieri displayed remarkable grit on the ice on Friday when he skated on through a horrific injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 34-year-old tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee late in the second period of the Islanders&#8217; 4-3 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers at the UBS Arena &#8211; but that didn&#8217;t stop him from helping his team find the back of the goal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Palmieri was checked by Flyers defenseman Jamie Drysdale, which sent him flying awkwardly into the boards behind the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He stayed down on the ice for a while, appearing to grimace in pain, before he managed to gather himself and get back to his feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Yet, as he gingerly skated towards the Islanders&#8217; bench, he snuck in behind an\u00a0unsuspecting Flyers defenseman and seized the chance to steal the puck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Palmieri then passed the puck to teammate Jonathan Drouin, who dropped it onto the stick of Emil Heineman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Kyle Palmieri after getting hurt on the boards, stole the puck while heading to the bench, got the assist and then went to the dressing room \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EBg7ugtYwc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EBg7ugtYwc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BR_OpenIce\/status\/1994530421351023021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 28, 2025<\/a>     <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-61a3858292636f7a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/104312457-15338825-image-a-1_1764513150099.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"New York Islanders star Kyle Palmieri tore the ACL in his left knee during Friday's game\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">New York Islanders star Kyle Palmieri tore the ACL in his left knee during Friday&#8217;s game\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e95387ef0d372a5b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/104312461-15338825-image-a-2_1764513162882.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The forward showed remarkable grit as he momentarily played through the pain\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The forward showed remarkable grit as he momentarily played through the pain\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-34a45c347feebfa7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/104312501-15338825-image-a-3_1764513257871.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Palmieri's steal set up Emil Heineman's (right) goal in the second period of the 4-3 loss\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Palmieri&#8217;s steal set up Emil Heineman&#8217;s (right) goal in the second period of the 4-3 loss\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Heineman then flicked it home to polish off Palmieri&#8217;s steal with a goal and claw it back to 3-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After completing the pass, Palmieri immediately made his wat to the bench and hobbled to the locker room with the help of a trainer. He did not return.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The injury came as a major blow to the Isles and Palmieri with the forward now set to miss the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The veteran is set to undergo surgery, ruling him out for out six-to-eight months, the team confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Palmeiri had six goals and 12 assists in 25 games this season. The gritty forward joined the Islanders in a trade with New Jersey in April 2021. He had played 223 straight games for the Islanders before Friday&#8217;s injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Palmieri was a first-round pick by Anaheim in 2009. He has 276 goals and 269 assists in 925 regular-season games with the Ducks, Devils and Islanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Islanders also lost defenseman Alexander Romanov to a serious shoulder injury earlier this month. Forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau is also out with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        NHL star plays through ACL tear and sets up goal in remarkable display of toughness<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ISABEL BALDWIN, US ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Published: 09:44 EST, 30 November 2025 | Updated: 09:44 EST, 30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,100,575,588,85],"class_list":["post-318993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dailymail","tag-nhl","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318993","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=318993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}