{"id":934931,"date":"2026-10-20T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934931\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:38:14","slug":"islanders-gameday-news-visited-by-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934931\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Gameday News: Visited by Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Islanders begin their life \u2014 well, technically it began late in the first period in Toronto Saturday \u2014 with two more regulars out as they host the Ducks and Tough Negotiator Pat Verbeek on Long Island Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The prognosis for the two newest injuries is not as bad as it could\u2019ve been, but opposite what I at least expected. Center Cal Ritchie, who skated off on his own power, is expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/islanders\/news\/isles-day-to-day-maccelli-ritchie-injury-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">miss four to six weeks<\/a>, while winger Matias Maccelli, who needed help off the ice and down the hall, is listed as two to four weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Of course, with Mat Barzal still out despite \u201cmaybe being ready by opening weekend,\u201d we\u2019ll view all prognoses with even more suspicion than usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Regardless, Mitchell Chaffee gets the emergency recall and Kyle MacLean gets a turn in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Oh, but speaking of the Barzal situation, which gets more concerning by the week:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders begin their life \u2014 well, technically it began late in the first period in Toronto Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,44301,575,85],"class_list":["post-934931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bits-o-islanders-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934931","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=934931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}