New York Islanders (24-15-4, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Nashville Predators (19-19-4, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Nashville, Tennessee; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders visit the Nashville Predators after Anthony Duclair recorded a hat trick in the Islanders’ 9-0 win over the New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n
Nashville is 10-9-2 in home games and 19-19-4 overall. The Predators have a 14-5-1 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
New York has a 24-15-4 record overall and a 10-7-2 record in road games. The Islanders have conceded 116 goals while scoring 125 for a +9 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan O’Reilly has scored 12 goals with 24 assists for the Predators. Luke Evangelista has two goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mathew Barzal has 11 goals and 24 assists for the Islanders. Calum Ritchie has scored three goals with one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Predators: 6-4-0, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.9 assists, 3.2 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Islanders: 5-4-1, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.3 assists, three penalties and 7.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Predators: None listed.<\/p>\n
Islanders: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Islanders (24-15-4, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Nashville Predators (19-19-4, in the Central Division) Nashville, Tennessee;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43539,597,9,11,10,7622,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-92137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-43539","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92137","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=92137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}