The game between the New York Islanders and Carolina Hurricanes will take place at UBS Arena on Friday, April 21 at 7:00 PM ET.
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The New York Islanders will welcome the Carolina Hurricanes to UBS Arena for an NHL game on Friday. The New York Islanders lost 4-3 in their last game over the Hurricanes. Kyle Palmieri, Mathew Barzal and Brock Nelson scored for the Islanders, and Sorokin finished with 32 saves. New York coach Lane Lambert was also irked by a late no-call when defenseman Scott Mayfield took an inadvertent high stick from Carolina’s Jordan Martinook shortly before Fast’s winning goal.
That capped a night in which the Islanders had no power plays compared to the Hurricanes’ six, including two double-minors for high-sticking. “Right now we just have to worry about the next game,” Lambert said. The Hurricanes took the series opener Monday night, scoring twice with the man advantage — their first multi-goal game on the power play since early March — before the teams shared a scoreless 37-minute grind to the horn in Carolina’s 2-1 win.
This time, Carolina grabbed an early lead on Stastny’s deflection from the top of the crease then pushed ahead 2-0 on a bouncing own-goal off the stick of the Islanders’ Sebastian Aho, coming off Noesen’s dump-in on a power play that somehow instead slipped by Sorokin. Yet the Islanders responded with three straight goals, including Barzal — who missed the last 23 regular-season games with a lower-body injury — converting a bad open-ice turnover from Brady Skjei by turning around Brett Pesce and whipping the puck past Raanta in the final minute of the second.
The Carolina Hurricanes on the other hand won 4-3 against the Islanders in their last game. The Carolina Hurricanes had gone from leading by two goals to trailing midway through the final period, suddenly facing the prospect of losing their home-ice advantage against the New York Islanders. Jaccob Slavin, Jesper Fast and the rest of the Hurricanes turned in a steady response befitting a team in the playoffs for the fifth straight season.
Fast took a cross-ice pass from Jordan Staal and buried it past Ilya Sorokin at 5:03 of overtime to lift the Hurricanes past the Islanders 4-3 on Wednesday night, taking a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series. “Certainly in spurts we were OK,” coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We probably played our best hockey when we got down.” Staal’s pass came from the left side near the boards and found Fast loose on the right for the finish over Sorokin’s pad. And that opportunity came only because Slavin managed a game-tying score midway through the third period despite a tough angle from the goal line on the left side.
“We know how we have to play and we’ve been a team all year that will battle hard until that last buzzer goes,” Slavin said. Paul Stastny and Stefan Noesen also scored for the Hurricanes, while Antti Raanta had 23 saves. But Carolina lost top-line forward Teuvo Teravainein to what coach Rod Brind’Amour said afterward was a broken hand on an uncalled slash late in the third period.
Noah Dobson – Brock Nelson – Kyle Palmieri
Mathew Barzal – Adam Pelech – Sebastian Aho
Samuel Bolduc – Casey Cizikas – Cal Clutterbuck
Pierre Engvall – Hudson Fasching
Bo Horvat – Anders Lee
Matt Martin – Scott Mayfield
Jean-Gabriel Pageau – Zach Parise
Ryan Pulock
Ilya Sorokin
Brent Burns – Jaccob Slavin – Sebastian Aho
Jesper Fast – Seth Jarvis – Stefan Noesen
Jordan Staal – Paul Stastny – Jalen Chatfield
Jack Drury – Shayne Gostisbehere
Jesperi Kotkaniemi – Jordan Martinook
Martin Nečas – Brett Pesce
Antti Raanta – Brady Skjei
Derek Stepan
Teuvo Teräväinen
New York Islanders: Scott Mayfield, Alexander Romanov, Oliver Wahlstrom
Carolina Hurricanes: Teuvo Teravainen, Frederik Andersen, Max Pacioretty, Ondrej Kase, Andrei Svechnikov, Jake Gardiner
The game between the New York Islanders and Carolina Hurricanes will take place at UBS Arena on Friday, April 21 at 7:00 PM ET.
The match between the New York Islanders and Carolina Hurricanes will be telecast live on Fox Sports Carolinas, Bally Sports South, MSG Sportsnet, TBS.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Fox Sports Carolinas, Bally Sports South, MSG Sportsnet, TBS. | April 21 (7:00 PM ET) |
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