{"id":149007,"date":"2025-09-11T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149007\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:26:07","slug":"the-most-important-stat-for-every-player-on-islanders-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149007\/","title":{"rendered":"The most important stat for every player on Islanders defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picking up <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/04\/sports\/the-most-important-stat-for-every-islanders-forward\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where we left off last week<\/a>, we dig into one stat for every Islanders defenseman and goaltender to prime us for 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>All advanced stats per Evolving Hockey unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Schaefer<\/p>\n<p>5: Islanders in history who have won the Calder Trophy<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer is not the odds-on favorite to win the Calder \u2014 that would be Montreal\u2019s Ivan Demidov \u2014 and he\u2019s behind the likes of Michael Misa, Alexander Nikishin, Zeev Buium, Isaac Howard, Jimmy Snuggerud, Zayne Parekh and Ryan Leonard as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picking up where we left off last week, we dig into one stat for every Islanders defenseman and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[75615,389,75618,394,385,4892,92193,99,358,92194],"class_list":["post-149007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-pelech","tag-ilya-sorokin","tag-inside-the-islanders","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-ryan-pulock","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-tony-deangelo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}