{"id":180541,"date":"2026-03-31T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:59:08","slug":"game-preview-islanders-at-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180541\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Islanders at Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PROJECTED LINES\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00a0is\u00a0how the Islanders\u00a0lined up\u00a0against the Penguins\u00a0on\u00a0Monday night. Check back\u00a0closer to puck drop for any updates to the\u00a0lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anders Lee\u00a0\u2013 Bo Horvat \u2013\u00a0Emil Heineman\u00a0<br \/>Cal Ritchie\u00a0\u2013 Brayden Schenn \u2013\u00a0Mathew Barzal\u00a0<br \/>Ondrej Palat\u00a0\u2013 JG Pageau \u2013\u00a0Simon Holmstrom\u00a0<br \/>Kyle MacLean\u00a0\u2013 Casey\u00a0Cizikas\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Marc Gatcomb\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Schaefer \u2013 Ryan Pulock\u00a0<br \/>Adam Pelech\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Carson Soucy\u00a0<br \/>Scott Mayfield\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Adam\u00a0Boqvist\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BRAYDEN SCHENN SCORING<\/p>\n<p>Schenn has four points (2G, 2A) in his last two games, marking the second time he has earned points in consecutive games since joining the New York Islanders\u00a0at the trade deadline.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old\u00a0has eight points (4G, 4A) since the trade and\u00a036 points (16G, 20A) total this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SINGLE\u00a0PERIOD SCORING\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York scored at least three second period goals for the second consecutive game, as they netted five against the Panthers on Saturday afternoon. The last time they scored three or more goals in a single period in consecutive games was a three-game stretch from Oct. 18-23 earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, with five second period Penguins goals, it was the first time since the Columbus Blue Jackets scored five second period tallies against the Isles on Apr. 17.<\/p>\n<p>BACK AT IT\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders\u00a0are 9-3-1 in the second half of back-to-back sets this season, averaging 2.69 GF\/G in such contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PROJECTED LINES\u00a0 Here\u00a0is\u00a0how the Islanders\u00a0lined up\u00a0against the Penguins\u00a0on\u00a0Monday night. Check back\u00a0closer to puck drop for any updates to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-180541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}