{"id":523722,"date":"2026-11-09T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/523722\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:02:08","slug":"islanders-gameday-barzal-joins-the-california-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/523722\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Gameday: Barzal joins the California trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We don\u2019t know when Mat Barzal will play again, but it\u2019s a good sign that he has joined the Islanders for their California trip, along with fellow injured teammates Matias Maccelli and Ryan Pulock. The center (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousehockey.com\/islanders-news-headlines\/45127\/islanders-2026-27-preview-centers-of-meh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he\u2019ll ultimately be a center again, yes? no?<\/a>) hasn\u2019t played yet, dealing with inflammation from his broken knee cap of a couple years ago that bothered him all last season and kept him out of the World Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s important that he get back into form so that his presence, along with Matthew Schaefer, can convince Nikita Kucherov to come to Long Island in July 2027. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t know when Mat Barzal will play again, but it\u2019s a good sign that he has joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14261,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-523722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bits-o-islanders-news","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523722","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=523722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}