{"id":205478,"date":"2026-03-05T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205478\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:27:08","slug":"ryan-pulock-misses-islanders-loss-to-ducks-due-to-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205478\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Pulock misses Islanders’ loss to Ducks due to upper body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Ryan Pulock was a full go at Wednesday morning\u2019s skate, only for Patrick Roy to announce shortly afterward that Pulock would not play against the Ducks later that evening.<\/p>\n

While there is optimism that Pulock\u2019s injury, officially designated as upper body, will be very much short-term \u2014 as in, playing Thursday against the Kings appears to be on the table \u2014 the defenseman evidently didn\u2019t feel right during the morning skate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was based on the morning skate,\u201d Roy said. \u201cGame-time decision, but he didn\u2019t feel ready to play. We\u2019ll wait for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pulock briefly left Sunday\u2019s win over the Panthers with what appeared to be a shoulder injury, but quickly returned to the game.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Drouin, who missed Sunday\u2019s game, was back in the lineup Wednesday, with Anthony Duclair coming out as a healthy scratch.<\/p>\n

As a result of Pulock\u2019s absence, Adam Boqvist came back into the lineup, starting on the third pair with Carson Soucy as Scott Mayfield moved up to the top pair with Matthew Schaefer.<\/p>\n

It was Boqvist\u2019s first game since a 4-0 win over the Flyers on Jan. 26.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re always going to feel [it] when one of your better guys is out,\u201d Tony DeAngelo told The Post after the 5-1 loss<\/a> in which Pulock\u2019s absence was heavily felt. \u201cBoqy played a real good game, filled in nicely. It\u2019s always next man up, we can\u2019t think too much of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RyanRyan Pulock makes a pass during the Islanders\u2019 5-4 win over the Panthers at UBS Arena on March 1, 2026. ennis Schneidler-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The configuration the Islanders started with did not make it through the first period, as Schaefer and Mayfield \u2014 who started the year together \u2014 struggled to click. By the first intermission, all three pairs seemed to be rotating, which continued throughout.<\/p>\n

The situation served to underscore Pulock\u2019s importance to these Islanders, which has largely been underrated with Schaefer drawing so much attention.<\/p>\n

Pulock\u2019s 24 points already have surpassed his total from last year, and at 21:03 per night, he\u2019s second only to Schaefer in time on ice.<\/p>\n

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Roy called Anaheim\u2019s Leo Carlsson \u201ca special player\u201d after the Swedish center finished with an assist and was noticeable on nearly every shift alongside Cutter Gauthier, who scored twice for the Ducks.<\/p>\n

David Rittich stopped 21 of 25 shots for the Islanders, while Ville Husso turned aside 42 shots for Anaheim.<\/p>\n

Only two scouts were in attendance at Wednesday\u2019s match just 48 hours before the deadline, and both were from the St. Louis Blues, as rumors connecting the Islanders to some of the Blues\u2019 high-end assets such as Jordan Kyrou and Robert Thomas continued to swirl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Ryan Pulock was a full go at Wednesday morning\u2019s skate, only for Patrick Roy to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,12745,404,94412,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-205478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-ryan-pulock","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}