Hurricanes 6, Islanders 4: Isles come up short in second weekend loss

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The Isles can’t make use of Engvall’s two-goal game as the Hurricanes close out a back and forth game. The New York Islanders showed a lot of fight in this game after yet another sluggish start where they dug themselves into an early hole. Kyle Palmieri continued his power play hot streak, Pierre Engvall picked up apparently his first ever multi-goal game in the NHL, and Marcus Hogberg played a solid game, making some excellent saves to keep the Isles in this one as the score went back and forth over the first two periods.
But the Hurricanes pulled away in the third, and the Isles couldn’t make the most of their chances to get back into it, ultimately dropping both games this weekend and dropping behind multiple teams in the wildcard race.
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Much like in Tampa, this one opened with two even quicker goals from the Hurricanes, with Mark Jankowski and Logan Stankoven getting on the board within a few seconds of each other, less than five minutes into the period.
But just a couple of minutes later, Pierre Engvall got one back, picking up the puck in the defensive zone and springing a 2 on 1 with Casey Cizikas, before shooting it past Pyotr Kochetkov.

Then, Andrei Svechnikov took an interference penalty, and Kyle Palmieri converted to tie the game. Palmieri gloved Noah Dobson’s pass and set it up for himself for a beautiful shot.

And early into the second, Engvall would strike again, wristing it past Kochetkov from the faceoff dots to give the Isles their first lead of the night.

But that lead would be short-lived, as Sebastian Aho tied the game after Tsyplakov took a hooking penalty.
The Hurricanes nearly made it 4-3, but Alex Romanov cleared the puck off the line to avoid a sure goal, then drew a four minute double-minor for high sticking. But... Seth Jarvis would then score to give the Hurricanes the lead for real this time.
Continuing the early goals trend, though, Anders Lee put the puck in to tie the game, picking up a cross-ice pass from Bo Horvat.

But Dmitri Orlov scored five minutes later to restore the Carolina lead at 5-4 nearly midway through the third. And despite some solid saves by Marcus Hogberg to keep the Isles in it, Seth Jarvis picked up his second of the game to extend the lead to 6-4.
Patrick Roy pulled Hogberg for the extra skater, and then Carolina was called for too many men on the ice, giving the Isles a 6 on 4 power play opportunity. They couldn’t convert, and ultimately dropped yet another game.
Up Next
Next, the Islanders head back to UBS Arena to host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday, hopefully to earn a better result than Saturday’s game.


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