{"id":570074,"date":"2026-03-28T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:57:09","slug":"nhl-game-preview-florida-panthers-at-new-york-islanders-with-line-combinations-03-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570074\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Florida Panthers at New York Islanders with Line Combinations 03\/28\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NHL-Game-Preview-Florida-Panthers-at-New-York-Islanders-with-Line-Combinations-03.28.2026.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Florida Panthers at New York Islanders with Line Combinations 03\/28\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo by: Stefan Jeremiah-AP)<\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers (35-33-3, 73 pts) at New York Islanders (41-27-5, 87 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: UBS Arena<br \/>Date: Saturday, March 28<br \/>Time: 1:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: ESPN+, Scripps Sports, MSGSN<br \/>Radio:\u00a0560 AM WQAM\/ WRHU 88.7 FM, 103.9 FM LI New Radio <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Panthers lost 3-2 to the Minnesota Wild on Thursday in their last game. In their previous five games, Florida has a 2-3-0 record, scoring 2.8 goals per game while allowing 3.2.<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders beat the Stars on Thursday, 2-1. In their last five games, New York has a 2-3-0 record, scoring 2.2 goals per game while conceding three. <\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Verhaeghe-Bennett-Tkachuk<br \/>Luostarinen-Rodrigues-Boqvist<br \/>C.Reinhardt-Nosek-Hinostroza<br \/>Foote-Kunin-Gregor<\/p>\n<p>Forsling-Ekblad<br \/>Kulikov-Jones<br \/>Sebrango-Benning<\/p>\n<p>Bobrovsky<br \/>Tarasov<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Florida&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Florida Hockey Merchandise here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Lee-Horvat-Heineman<br \/>Ritchie-Schenn-Barzal<br \/>Palat-Pageu-Holmstrom<br \/>Maclean-Cizikas-Gatcomb<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer-Pulock<br \/>Pelech-Soucy<br \/>Boqvist-Mayfield<\/p>\n<p>Sorokin<br \/>Rittich<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Seattle&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=New+York+&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Seattle&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Hockey Merchandise here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/?s=Carter%20Verhaeghe&amp;post_tag=carter-verhaeghe\" id=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/?s=Carter%20Verhaeghe&amp;post_tag=carter-verhaeghe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Verhaeghe<\/a> had a goal in the Panthers\u2019 4-1 win over the Islanders back on December 7th.<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/?s=Matthew%20Schae&amp;post_tag=matthew-schaefer\" id=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/?s=Matthew%20Schae&amp;post_tag=matthew-schaefer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Schaefer<\/a> had two goals and an assist in the Islanders\u2019 5-4 win over the Panthers back on March 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Florida Panthers<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">F Jonah Gadjovich \u2013 IR<br \/>F Aleksander Barkov \u2013 IR<br \/>F Cole Schwindt \u2013 IR<br \/>F Brad Marchand \u2013 IR<br \/>F Anton Lundell \u2013 DTD<br \/>F Sam Reinhart \u2013 DTD<br \/>F Mackie Samoskevich \u2013 DTD<br \/>F Evan Rodriguez \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders<\/p>\n<p>C\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/kyle-palmieri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Palmieri<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>G Semyon Varlamov \u2013 IR<br \/>F Pierre Engvall \u2013 IR<br \/>D Alexander Romanov \u2013 IR<br \/>F Anthony Duclair -DTD<br \/>D Tony DeAngelo \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Next Game<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8db68b5dc1a6417474926df3f6d3c47ad5c5859e11a1a42050a5fdf654aba77b.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: Stefan Jeremiah-AP) Florida Panthers (35-33-3, 73 pts) at New York Islanders (41-27-5, 87 pts) Venue: UBS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[132099,29824,151358,241673,64,63,4778,280113,216263,39848,3274,3915,216267,127916,280114,31031,5791,575,214648,280115,54983,42504,85,280116],"class_list":{"0":"post-570074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-aleksander-barkov","9":"tag-alexander-romanov","10":"tag-anthony-duclair","11":"tag-anton-lundell","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-brad-marchand","15":"tag-carter-verhaeghe","16":"tag-cole-schwindt","17":"tag-evan-rodrigues","18":"tag-florida-panthers","19":"tag-hockey","20":"tag-jonah-gadjovich","21":"tag-kyle-palmieri","22":"tag-mackie-samsoskevich","23":"tag-matthew-schaefer","24":"tag-new-york-islanders","25":"tag-nhl","26":"tag-nhl-game-preview","27":"tag-pierre-engvall","28":"tag-sam-reinhart","29":"tag-semyon-varlamov","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-tony-deangelo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570074","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=570074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}