New York Islanders (42-30-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (48-21-6, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Raleigh, North Carolina; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Hurricanes -243, Islanders +200; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Carolina Hurricanes host the New York Islanders after Logan Stankoven’s two-goal game against the Columbus Blue Jackets in the Hurricanes’ 5-1 win.<\/p>\n
Carolina is 48-21-6 overall and 18-4-1 against the Metropolitan Division. The Hurricanes have a 16-4-3 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n
New York is 14-8-2 against the Metropolitan Division and 42-30-5 overall. The Islanders have given up 220 goals while scoring 219 for a -1 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season. The Hurricanes won 6-2 in the last meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Seth Jarvis has 30 goals and 33 assists for the Hurricanes. Stankoven has five goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Matthew Schaefer has 22 goals and 35 assists for the Islanders. Mathew Barzal has one goal and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hurricanes: 7-3-0, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.1 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Islanders: 4-6-0, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.9 assists, 3.1 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hurricanes: Pyotr Kochetkov: out (hip).<\/p>\n
Islanders: Alexander Romanov: out (shoulder), Pierre Engvall: out for season (ankle), Tony DeAngelo: out (lower body), Semyon Varlamov: out for season (knee), Kyle Palmieri: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press New York Islanders (42-30-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (48-21-6, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-540051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-islanders","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkislanders","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116345986851942944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}