{"id":274990,"date":"2025-11-06T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274990\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:07:13","slug":"matthew-schaefer-is-sending-islanders-opponents-back-to-the-drawing-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274990\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Schaefer is sending Islanders opponents back to the drawing board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bruins were not the first team, nor will they be the last, whose strategy with Matthew Schaefer seemed to revolve around physical intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>All the conversation about Nikita Zadorov\u2019s shove <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/04\/sports\/islanders-get-into-heated-scuffle-with-bruins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that sent Schaefer to the ice<\/a> in the second period of the eventual 4-3 shootout win for Boston on Tuesday night, though, seemed to overlook the actual purpose of the act itself.<\/p>\n<p>Zadorov was trying to find a way to blunt Schaefer\u2019s impact on the game. In that, he failed miserably.<\/p>\n<p>Forget how many penalties the defenseman committed in a 10-second span \u2014 two, though coach Patrick Roy wanted a few more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bruins were not the first team, nor will they be the last, whose strategy with Matthew Schaefer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[38006,394,385,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-274990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-matthew-schaefer","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274990","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=274990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}