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\nHurricanes forward Seth Jarvis celebrates his first of two goals behind Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin during Carolina\u2019s 4-3 win Saturday in Raleigh. (Karl DeBlaker \/ AP Photo)<\/p>\n
\nHurricanes forward Seth Jarvis celebrates his first of two goals behind Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin during Carolina\u2019s 4-3 win Saturday in Raleigh. (Karl DeBlaker \/ AP Photo)<\/p>\n
RALEIGH \u2014 If there were any concerns the Hurricanes would take their foot off the accelerator after clinching a playoff berth, those were put to rest Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Carolina dominated the desperate Islanders in a 4-3 win that didn\u2019t reflect how thorough a beat down the Metropolitan Division leaders inflicted on the overwhelmed visitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe played a really good team,\u201d said Seth Jarvis, \u201cand I\u2019m really proud of how we came out and handled it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes outshot New York 40-16 and have allowed a combined 26 shots against in their last two games \u2014 two playoff hopefuls in the Blue Jackets and Islanders. The 5-on-5 shot attempts were 71-21. Matthew Schaefer, the Islanders\u2019 wunderkind defenseman and shoe-in for the Calder Trophy, was on the ice at 5-on-5 for four shots on goal for and 21 against.<\/p>\n
Despite all that, the game wasn\u2019t a total rout thanks to New York goalie Ilya Sorokin (36 saves), who did everything he could while playing for the second straight night to try to get the Islanders valuable points in the standings.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s one of the top goalies in the world,\u201d Hurricanes forward Jackson Blake said. \u201cWhen you shoot that many pucks, though, I think you\u2019re going to get the bounces once in a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Islanders, outshot nearly six to one in the first half of the game, still led 2-1 on goals by Matt Gatcomb and Max Shabanov.<\/p>\n
But Blake tied the game just past the midway point of regulation for his 22nd goal when Logan Stankoven bodied Islanders defenseman Scott Mayfield \u2014 eight inches taller and 50 pounds heavier \u2014 off the puck along the boards to set up his linemate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat goal is all credit to him,\u201d Blake said of Stankoven. \u201cI had the easy part just to finish it, but he made an unbelievable play there. He\u2019s a smaller guy, but he doesn\u2019t play like it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jarvis, who tied the game in the first period by scoring on a partial breakaway off a stretch pass from Sean Walker, gave Carolina its first lead by setting up Sebastian Aho for a shorthanded goal \u2014 the Hurricanes\u2019 third in as many games.<\/p>\n
That shorthanded rush was started when defenseman Jaccob Slavin angled a backhand pass off the boards and up to Jarvis to create the opportunity. Jarvis then feathered a pass through Schaefer to Aho, who banged in his 26th goal of the season at 16:17 of the second for a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat pass by (Slavin), and then just executing was the biggest thing,\u201d Jarvis said. \u201cAnd (Aho) scoring was huge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jarvis\u2019 second goal, his 32nd of the year, came in the opening shift of the third when Andrei Svechnikov won a race to a loose puck and sent a pass cross ice for a Jarvis one-timer.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes ended up needing the two-goal cushion.<\/p>\n
New York sent Sorokin to the bench with more than three minutes remaining and got within one when Anders Lee scored his 19th goal of the season on a redirection in front of Brandon Bussi (13 saves) with 97 seconds left.<\/p>\n
But Bussi shut the door at the end, making two saves in the final 30 seconds to secure his fourth straight win and 29th of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last minute got a little hairy, but overall I just can\u2019t say enough,\u201d Hurricanes coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cThat was pretty impressive considering what\u2019s at stake. I thought our guys just played the way we wanted to, and we got what we deserved tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
The win pushed Carolina\u2019s magic number to one to win the division, and the team\u2019s 104 points have it atop the Eastern Conference with six games remaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at our last couple of games, and I think that desperation type of feeling has been apparent in each game,\u201d defenseman K\u2019Andre Miller said. \u201cSo obviously we\u2019re closing in tight on the end of the year, and the playoffs are right around the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notes: Stankoven won 6 of 11 faceoffs and has won more than 50% of his draws in three straight games. \u2026 Carolina went 0 for 3 on the power play, snapping its eight-game goal streak. \u2026 Miller had two assists, his seventh multipoint game of the season. \u2026 Forwards Nicolas Deslauriers and Jesperi Kotkaniemi and defenseman Mike Reilly were healthy scratches for Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricanes forward Seth Jarvis celebrates his first of two goals behind Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin during Carolina\u2019s 4-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541423,"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-541422","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\/116350000441499754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541422","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=541422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}