LIGHTNING (18-11-2) at ISLANDERS (18-11-3)<\/p>\n
3 p.m. ET; The Spot, MSGSN<\/p>\n
Lightning projected lineup<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel — Anthony Cirelli — Nikita Kucherov<\/p>\n
Jake Guentzel — Brayden Point — Oliver Bjorkstrand<\/p>\n
Pontus Homberg — Yanni Gourde — Zemgus Girgensons<\/p>\n
Curtis Douglas — Nick Paul — Scott Sabourin<\/p>\n
J.J. Moser — Darren Raddysh<\/p>\n
Charle-Edouard D’Astous — Emil Lilleberg<\/p>\n
Declan Carlile — Max Crozier<\/p>\n
Jonas Johansson<\/p>\n
Brandon Halverson<\/p>\n
Scratched: Dominic James, Gage Goncalves<\/p>\n
Injured: Ryan McDonagh (undisclosed), Erik Cernak (undisclosed), Andrei Vasilevskiy (undisclosed), Victor Hedman (elbow), Dominic James (undisclosed)<\/p>\n
Islanders projected lineup<\/p>\n
Emil Heineman — Mathew Barzal — Jonathan Drouin<\/p>\n
Anders Lee — Jean-Gabriel Pageau — Maxim Shabanov<\/p>\n
Simon Holmstrom — Calum Ritchie — Anthony Duclair<\/p>\n
Kyle MacLean — Casey Cizikas — Marc Gatcomb<\/p>\n
Matthew Schaefer — Ryan Pulock<\/p>\n
Adam Pelech — Adam Boqvist<\/p>\n
Travis Mitchell — Scott Mayfield<\/p>\n
Ilya Sorokin<\/p>\n
David Rittich<\/p>\n
Scratched: Maxim Tsyplakov, Adam Boqvist<\/p>\n
Injured: Bo Horvat (lower body), Kyle Palmieri (ACL), Alexander Romanov (upper body), Semyon Varlamov (knee), Ethan Bear (upper body)<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
Hedman, a defenseman, will have a procedure on his elbow on Monday. He is expected to return in early February and play for Team Sween at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026. \u2026 Vasilevskiy practiced on Friday but the goalie will not play against the Islanders. He could return Monday against the Florida Panthers. \u2026 James, a forward, was a full participant on Friday and could return on Saturday after missing an 8-4 win against the New Jersey Devils on Thursday. … Defenseman Jack Finley was loaned to Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Friday. \u2026 Drouin, a forward, will return to the lineup after missing the past five games with a lower-body injury (back). … Horvat, a forward, will not play after sustaining a lower-body injury at the 13:08 mark of the second period in their 5-2 win against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIGHTNING (18-11-2) at ISLANDERS (18-11-3) 3 p.m. ET; The Spot, MSGSN Lightning projected lineup Brandon Hagel — Anthony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-341122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341122","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=341122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}