{"id":502679,"date":"2026-10-20T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502679\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:40:10","slug":"ny-islanders-look-to-keep-rolling-against-ducks-despite-growing-injury-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502679\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Islanders look to keep rolling against Ducks despite growing injury concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">The New York Islanders return to UBS Arena on Tuesday night looking to continue their recent momentum when they host the Anaheim Ducks at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">The Islanders (2-0-1 in their last three games) have earned points in four of their previous five contests, including an impressive 4-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. Simon Holmstrom scored twice in that win, while Bo Horvat added a goal and an assist.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"65\">But the victories haven&#8217;t come without a cost.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">The Islanders will be without Matias Maccelli and Calum Ritchie, who suffered lower-body injuries against Toronto. Maccelli is expected to miss two to four weeks, while Ritchie faces a four-to-six-week absence.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6f\">Those injuries have forced head coach Pete DeBoer to shuffle his lineup, with Mitchell Chaffee and Kyle MacLean expected to make their season debuts alongside Casey Cizikas on the fourth line.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6k\">Fortunately, the Islanders have found an identity that doesn&#8217;t necessarily require an offensive explosion every night.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">New York has allowed just 17 goals through eight games, the fewest in the Eastern Conference and second-fewest in the NHL. Their 2.13 goals-against average ranks third leaguewide, while Ilya Sorokin and Semyon Varlamov have combined for an impressive .919 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\">Sorokin is expected to get the start Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6z\">Anaheim arrives on the second night of a back-to-back after falling 5-2 to the Rangers on Monday. The Ducks have lost three straight following a 4-1-0 start, although Leo Carlsson, Beckett Sennecke and Cutter Gauthier provide plenty of offensive danger.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"74\">For the Islanders, the challenge is straightforward: Keep defending, capitalize on opportunities and don&#8217;t allow the mounting injuries to derail a promising start.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"79\">With the Los Angeles Kings visiting Thursday, this is an opportunity to build momentum before the schedule gets tougher.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow eyesonisles.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=eyesonisles.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" preventdefault:click=\"\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\" on:click=\"q-CEpdLuTO.js#s_lDqay9E5m5g[0]\" q:id=\"7f\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Islanders return to UBS Arena on Tuesday night looking to continue their recent momentum when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-502679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502679","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=502679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}