{"id":897207,"date":"2026-10-28T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897207\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:00:10","slug":"varlamov-gets-1st-nhl-win-since-2024-islanders-edge-predators-in-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897207\/","title":{"rendered":"Varlamov gets 1st NHL win since 2024, Islanders edge Predators in shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Varlamov was 0-1-2 over his past three starts in his return to the NHL this season after having each of his knees partially replaced. The 38-year-old played two games at the end of last season with Bridgeport of the American Hockey League. He won both, allowing a total of three goals (.939 save percentage).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s an amazing feeling. A very special moment,\u201d Varlamov said. \u201cA year ago, to be honest with you, I didn&#8217;t see this coming. It was such a grind the last two years to get to this point, where you have an opportunity to play and compete at the highest level in the world. I&#8217;m very thankful for this opportunity. I just want to thank everybody who was involved in my rehab, the surgery and everything. I&#8217;m very, very proud of everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brayden-schenn-8475170\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Schenn<\/a> scored his 300th NHL goal, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/anthony-duclair-8477407\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Duclair<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/bo-horvat-8477500\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Horvat<\/a>\u00a0also scored for the Islanders (6-4-2), who are 2-1-1 in their past four games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kyle-palmieri-8475151\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Palmieri<\/a> and Horvat scored in the shootout for New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m just so happy for (Varlamov),\u201d Horvat said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming, and he&#8217;s been playing well up to this point, and to finally see him get that win the way he did, making big saves and pulling through for him, it definitely feels good for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Varlamov was 0-1-2 over his past three starts in his return to the NHL this season after having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-897207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897207","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=897207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}