{"id":424141,"date":"2026-10-10T11:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424141\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:14:12","slug":"lightning-visit-the-islanders-after-carlsons-2-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424141\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning visit the Islanders after Carlson\u2019s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT: Tampa Bay Lightning (3-1, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders (2-2, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n<p>WHERE\/WHEN: Elmont, New York; Saturday, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning visit the New York Islanders after John Carlson scored two goals in the Lightning\u2019s 3-2 win against the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n<p>New York had a 43-34-5 record overall and a 22-17-2 record in home games last season. The Islanders scored 229 total goals last season (40 power-play goals and nine shorthanded goals).<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay went 50-26-6 overall and 26-12-6 on the road last season. The Lightning had a +57 goal differential last season, scoring 286 goals while giving up 229.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Islanders: Mathew Barzal: out (knee), Alexander Romanov: out (ACL).<\/p>\n<p>Lightning: Emil Lilleberg: out (undisclosed), Dominic James: day to day (hand), Yanni Gourde: out (hip).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHAT: Tampa Bay Lightning (3-1, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders (2-2, in the Metropolitan Division)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28,5691,76046,110,135,862,137,136],"class_list":["post-424141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-florida","tag-nhl","tag-social-sports","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}