{"id":238569,"date":"2025-10-20T12:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238569\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:38:05","slug":"islanders-news-worst-and-first-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238569\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders News: Worst and first coming to town\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s a bit of a lighter week for the 2-3 Islanders, with another day before they host the (still winless) Sharks on Tuesday, the (shockingly Atlantic leading) Red Wings on Thursday, then visit Philadelphia on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With two wins at the end of last week, they avoided falling into a nightmare start, but a variety of \u201cthis could be their undoing\u201d factors are still very much in play: special teams, overall team defense, reliance on great goaltending-or-else, etc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/scores\/2025-10-19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday\u2019s scores<\/a> included the Red Wings beating the Oilers for their fifth win in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a bit of a lighter week for the 2-3 Islanders, with another day before they host the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[51091,385,99],"class_list":["post-238569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-bits-o-islanders-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238569","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=238569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}