{"id":205526,"date":"2026-03-05T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205526\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:17:14","slug":"game-preview-islanders-at-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205526\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Islanders at Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PROJECTED LINES\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below are the Islanders\u2019 lines from\u00a0Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0practice.\u00a0Check back after Wednesday\u2019s morning skate for any updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ondrej Palat\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bo Horvat\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mathew\u00a0Barzal<br \/>Anthony Duclair\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cal Ritchie\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Emil Heineman<br \/>Anders Lee\u00a0\u2013 JG Pageau \u2013\u00a0Simon Holmstrom<br \/>Kyle MacLean\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Casey\u00a0Cizikas\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Marc Gatcomb<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Schaefer \u2013 Scott Mayfield<br \/>Adam Pelech \u2013 Tony DeAngelo<br \/>Carson\u00a0Soucy\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Adam\u00a0Boqvist\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David\u00a0Rittich<br \/>Ilya Sorokin\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DROUIN\u00a0PARTICIPATES IN\u00a0PRACTICE\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Drouin joined the Islanders on the ice at their first practice in\u00a0Anaheim,\u00a0California\u00a0on Tuesday. Drouin missed Sunday\u2019s game with a lower-body injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first-year Islander has 20 points (3G, 17A) in 53 games this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PULOCK TAKES MAINTENANCE DAY\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u00a0Pulock\u00a0(maintenance) missed the team\u2019s practice in Anaheim on\u00a0Tuesday.\u00a0Scott Mayfield jumped up to pair with Matthew Schaefer, while Adam\u00a0Boqvist\u00a0skated in a pair with Carson Soucy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pulock\u00a0earned an assist in the 5-4 win over the Panthers on Sunday night.\u00a0He is one goal (56) away from tying Kenny Jonsson\u00a0(57) for the third most goals by a defenseman in Islanders history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RITTICH TO START AGAINST THE DUCKS\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Patrick Roy confirmed that David\u00a0Rittich\u00a0will start\u00a0between the pipes for the second straight game\u00a0against the Ducks on Wednesday night.\u00a0Rittich\u00a0made 31 saves on 33 shots in New York\u2019s 5-2 win over Anaheim earlier in the season.\u00a0He\u00a0is 13-8-3 this season with a 2.63\u00a0GAA and a .899 SV along with two shutouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Sorokin will start against the LA Kings on Thursday for the second half of the back-to-back set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PROJECTED LINES\u00a0 Below are the Islanders\u2019 lines from\u00a0Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0practice.\u00a0Check back after Wednesday\u2019s morning skate for any updates.\u00a0 Ondrej Palat\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-205526","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205526","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=205526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}