SEASON SERIES\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is the\u00a0second\u00a0of\u00a0three\u00a0regular season\u00a0meetings\u00a0between the Isles and\u00a0Hurricanes\u00a0this year. New York\u00a0is\u00a00-1-0\u00a0in the season series.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The third and final game between the two sides is the Islanders\u2019 season finale on Apr. 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HURRICANES\u00a0NOTES\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes enter Saturday night as winners of their last two games, both against the Blue Jackets. Their most recent victory was a 5-1 win on Thursday night on home ice. Logan Stankoven\u00a0(2G), Alexander Nikishin, Andrei\u00a0Svechnikov\u00a0and Jordan\u00a0Martinook were Carolina\u2019s goal scorers, and Frederik Andersen made nine saves on 10 shots in the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Hurricanes\u00a0(102\u00a0points)\u00a0lead the Metropolitan Division and clinched a playoff berth\u00a0on Thursday night. They are 10 points ahead of the Pittsburgh Penguins (92 points), who\u00a0sit\u00a0second place in the Metro.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sebastian Aho is riding a four-game point streak, with five points (5A) in that stretch. Aho has\u00a025 points (8G, 17A) in his last 25 outings and leads the Hurricanes with 77 points (25G, 52A) this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andrei\u00a0Svechnikov also enters Saturday night on a point streak, with four points (3G, 1A) in his last three games. Svechnikov\u00a0ranks second on the Hurricanes with 65 points (28G, 37A) this season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rounding out Carolina\u2019s top line, Seth Jarvis has 10 points (2G, 8A) in his last 10 games. Jarvis is fourth on the team with 63 points (30G, 33A)\u00a0in\u00a0this\u00a0campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes lead the NHL with 439 takeaways, which is 44 ahead of\u00a0next\u00a0closest team (Washington Capitals) at 395.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carolina\u00a0also\u00a0ranks\u00a0first in the\u00a0league\u00a0with a league-low 23.9\u00a0shots against\u00a0per game.\u00a0They gave up just 10 shots\u00a0in their most recent win over the\u00a0Blue Jackets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes\u2019 power-play (24.8%) is tied for the third best in the NHL\u00a0and\u00a0has\u00a0converted\u00a0seven times in their last five games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carolina\u2019s penalty kill (80.8%) ranks 12th\u00a0in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEASON SERIES\u00a0\u00a0 This is the\u00a0second\u00a0of\u00a0three\u00a0regular season\u00a0meetings\u00a0between the Isles and\u00a0Hurricanes\u00a0this year. New York\u00a0is\u00a00-1-0\u00a0in the season series.\u00a0 The third and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-185195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}