Your New York
Islanders will face the Carolina Hurricanes tonight in Raleigh, NC. The Hurricanes are down to their minor
league goaltenders due to injuries to Cam Ward & Anton
Khudobin. Kevin Poulin will guard the
net for Long Island.
Forwards: Vanek-Tavares-Okposo,
Grabner-Nielsen-Bailey, Bouchard-Regin-Nelson, Martin-Cizikas-McDonald.
Aaron Ness &
Colin McDonald will be in tonight as well.
Cal Clutterbuck (Upper Body) & (Healthy) Matt Carkner are out
tonight.
D-Pairings: MacDonald-Hamonic, Ness-Hickey,
Donovan-Martinek.
Kevin Poulin in goal,
2-1-0 lifetime against the Hurricanes.
Evgeni Nabokov will be on the bench.
In the first period,
the islanders managed to control most of the play in both zones, but never
managed to get any consistent pressure on the Carolina net. Dvorak makes it 1-0 Hurricanes. Their transition play must improve and their
passes need to connect to open up lanes for the offense to get the best chances
to score. Thomas Hickey with some nice
looks on net in the game so far. Isles
continue to dictate pace, but struggle to cash in. Michael Grabner looks like he has forgotten how to score. Carolina leads in sog, 7-5.
The Islanders need
more grit and shots on goal to get this game going in the second period. Casey Cizikas continues to draw PP
opportunities for the Isles, but the special teams are M.I.A., Matt Moulson is
indeed missed on the Isles PP. Kyle
Okposo continues to punish anyone who touches Tavares. Isles playing with a little jump. Michael
Grabner misses on another breakaway. He
and Bailey have lost their scoring touch.
Canes out shoot Isles 11-7 in the period, 18-12 in the game so far. Credit Kevin Poulin for staying sharp and
making the good saves when called upon.
Donovan and Nelson.
The Isles continue to
struggle getting shots on net in the third period and seem satisfied in taking
low percentage chances when they are given to them. Peters looks way too comfortable in net for Carolina. This needs to change going forward. Like the game by Aaron Ness so far
tonight. He looks pretty comfortable. The Isles slowly come alive in the offensive
zone late in the period after Poulin has put on a clinic here to keep the Isles
down by only one goal. At very least,
he has shown that he deserves more time in the Isles net very soon. With time running out, Isles net is empty
for the extra attacker. Isles let time
expire, unable to score the equalizer.
Shots on goal in the period were 9-6 Isles and Carolina with a 24-21 advantage
in the game.
Kevin Poulin takes
the loss in a 1-0 game to the Carolina Hurricanes. The Isles drop to 4th place, with Carolina moving up to 3rd as
the Rangers move to within a point after beating Columbus. The Islanders are 6-7-3 with 15 pts. and on a
2 game losing skid.
A couple bright spots
tonight were the play of Kevin Poulin who was 23/24 with a .958Sv%. Call-up, Aaron Ness was impressive in his
first game of the season. He had 13:29
of ice time & saw time in the final minute of the game.
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