{"id":442135,"date":"2026-01-28T04:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442135\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:18:08","slug":"7-facts-ondrej-palat-new-york-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442135\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Facts: Ondrej Palat | New York Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HE BRINGS A VETERAN PRESENCE<\/p>\n<p>Palat has played 876 games over 14 seasons and has recorded 515 points (181G, 334A) over that span with a career plus-133 rating. He has played the 12th most games of an player from the 2011 Draft class.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old spent 10 seasons with the Lightning, compiling 423 points (143G, 280A) through 628 games for Tampa. He\u2019s familiar with the Islanders and the Metro-NY area, as was in his fourth season with the New Jersey Devils prior to the trade.<\/p>\n<p>Palat has played 248 games with the Devils racking up 92 points (38G, 54A) over that span.<\/p>\n<p>Palat was an alternate captain for three seasons in Tampa (2015-17) and four seasons in New Jersey (2022-26).<\/p>\n<p>CZECHIA CONNECTION<\/p>\n<p>Palat is a native of Frydek-Mistek, Czechia. He joins David Rittich as the only two Czechia-born Islanders on the current roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HE BRINGS A VETERAN PRESENCE Palat has played 876 games over 14 seasons and has recorded 515 points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-442135","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\/442135","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=442135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}