Sign up to participate in the jersey auction or make a donation to the Islanders Children\u2019s Foundation here.<\/a><\/p>\nAfter dropping the season opener, the Lightning took advantage of their three-game homestand with a trio of wins. They\u2019re coming off a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Wild and snapped an 0-for-14 start on the power play as John Carlson\u2019s two goals helped the Lightning to their third straight victory.<\/p>\n
The Lightning have been a model of consistency with at least 98 points in each of the last five seasons after winning back-to-back Stanley Cups, but have lost in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs each of the last four years.<\/p>\n
They still boast a roster full of talent including 2025-26 Hart Trophy winner Nikita Kucherov \u2013 who had 44 goals, 86 assists and 130 points last season \u2013 and two-time Vezina Trophy winner Andrei Vasilevskiy.<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll be an early season measuring stick game for the Islanders who are still looking to put a complete effort together according to Head Coach Pete DeBoer. That\u2019ll be a challenge against a physical and talented Lightning team that likes to mix it up and throw other teams off their game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve been building towards a game like this,\u201d DeBoer said. \u201cThis is one of the top teams in the league so we’ve got to try and put all the pieces together tomorrow night. I think we’ve slowly made improvements every night out in different areas. We haven’t put it all together for 60 minutes yet, and this is a team that we’re going to be forced to do that if we want to have a chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK ISLANDERS (2-2-0) VS TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING (3-1-0) 7:30 P.M. | UBS ARENA | BUY TICKETS HOW…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-369658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369658","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=369658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}