{"id":540811,"date":"2026-04-04T19:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:46:53","slug":"nhl-game-preview-new-york-islanders-at-carolina-hurricanes-with-line-combinations-04-04-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540811\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: New York Islanders at Carolina Hurricanes with Line Combinations 04\/04\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-96.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP photo\/Adam Hunger<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders (42-30-5, 92 pts) at Carolina Hurricanes (48-21-6, 102 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Lenovo Center<br \/>Date: Saturday, April 4<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/MSGSN\/FDSNSO<br \/>Radio: WRHU 88.7 FM, 103.9 FM LI New Radio\/102.5 The Game<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders suffered their third straight loss last night with a 4-1 defeat to the Flyers. During their skid, they\u2019re averaging 2.3 goals per game while allowing 5.3 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes picked up a 5-1 win over the Blue Jackets on Thursday. They\u2019ve won three of their last four games, averaging four goals per game while allowing two goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Lee-Horvat-Heineman<br \/>Ritchie-Schenn-Barzal<br \/>Palat-Pageu-Holmstrom<br \/>Maclean-Cizikas-Gatcomb<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer-Pulock<br \/>Pelech-Soucy<br \/>Boqvist-Mayfield<\/p>\n<p>Rittich<br \/>Sorokin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Seattle&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=New+York+&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Seattle&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Hockey Merchandise here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Svechnikov-Aho-Jarvis<br \/>Hall-Stankoven-Blake<br \/>Ehlers-Staal-Martinook<br \/>Carrier-Jankowski-Robinson<\/p>\n<p>Slavin-Chatfield<br \/>Miller-Walker<br \/>Gostisbehere-Nikishin<\/p>\n<p>Andersen<br \/>Bussi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Carolina&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Carolina Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders<\/p>\n<p>Simon Holmstrom had a goal in the Islanders\u2019 loss to Carolina back in October. <\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>Logan Stankoven had a goal and an assist in the Hurricanes\u2019 win over the Islanders back on October 30th.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-los-angeles-kings-0\">C\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/kyle-palmieri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Palmieri<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>G Semyon Varlamov \u2013 IR<br \/>F Pierre Engvall \u2013 IR<br \/>D Alexander Romanov \u2013 IR<br \/>D Tony Deangelo \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>D Charles-Alexis Legault \u2013 IR<br \/>G Pyotr Kochetkov \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/pyotr-kochetkov-probably-done-for-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">IR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP photo\/Adam Hunger New York Islanders (42-30-5, 92 pts) at Carolina Hurricanes (48-21-6, 102 pts) Venue: Lenovo CenterDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[29,5,5236,122,520,2218,3328,159,5190,5189,4,5573,4652],"class_list":{"0":"post-540811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-injury-report","11":"tag-islanders","12":"tag-logan-stankoven","13":"tag-metropolitan-division","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-islanders","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkislanders","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-nhl-game-preview","20":"tag-simon-holmstrom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116348169539239133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540811","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=540811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}