{"id":195017,"date":"2025-10-07T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195017\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:50:46","slug":"matthew-schaefer-cracks-new-york-islanders-roster-will-make-nhl-debut-thursday-vs-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195017\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Schaefer cracks New York Islanders roster, will make NHL debut Thursday vs. Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matthew Schaefer, the first overall pick in June\u2019s draft, will be a part of the New York Islanders opening night roster and make his NHL debut against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Islanders general manager Mathieu Darche said Monday that Schaefer has \u201ccompletely earned spot on the roster and in the lineup,\u201d per Arthur Gross of Newsday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Isles<\/a> GM Mathieu Darche says No. 1 overall pick Matthew Schaefer has &#8220;completely earned spot on the roster and in the lineup.&#8221; Confirms Schaefer will make his NHL debut in season opener, Thursday night in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Gross (@AGrossNewsday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGrossNewsday\/status\/1975215959964282967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-2 left-shot defenceman appeared in only 17 games with the Erie Otters last season after sustaining a broken collarbone while representing Canada at the World Juniors in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 18-year-old blueliner had seven goals and 22 points in 17 OHL games and had a goal and two points at the World Juniors.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Schaefer, the first overall pick in June\u2019s draft, will be a part of the New York Islanders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,96941,96940,448,82],"class_list":["post-195017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-matthew-schaefer-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8485366","tag-new-york-islanders-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-2","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}