{"id":318274,"date":"2025-11-28T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/318274\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:18:12","slug":"how-islanders-approach-to-2026-nhl-trade-deadline-is-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/318274\/","title":{"rendered":"How Islanders&#8217; approach to 2026 NHL trade deadline is changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s too early in the season to know anything definite about the trade deadline, but the Islanders are on course to be one of the NHL\u2019s most fascinating teams as the rumor mill heats up.<\/p>\n<p>Developments over the past week \u2014 namely Alexander Romanov <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/23\/sports\/alexander-romanov-to-undergo-surgery-in-islanders-injury-blow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">going down with a right shoulder injury<\/a> that will keep him out for the regular season, at least \u2014 only add to a dynamic in which every turn of events is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/26\/sports\/mathieu-darche-has-made-all-right-moves-and-revived-islanders-vibes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pushing general manager Mathieu Darche<\/a> in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, you can see four huge factors that need to play into the Islanders\u2019 deadline approach, and they don\u2019t add up to a cohesive picture of what Darche should pursue.<\/p>\n<p>1. The Islanders\u2019 record, which at 13-9-2 after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/26\/sports\/islanders-power-play-woes-deepen-in-frustrating-loss-to-bruins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday\u2019s loss\u00a0to the Bruins<\/a> implies they are much more of a playoff contender than anyone thought at the start of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s too early in the season to know anything definite about the trade deadline, but the Islanders are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[75618,50235,38006,394,385,77322,4892,99,358],"class_list":["post-318274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-inside-the-islanders","tag-mathieu-darche","tag-matthew-schaefer","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318274","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=318274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}