Islanders get trounced by Hurricanes in latest embarrassing loss
NY Post
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Islanders’ belief that they can turn the season around is running into the hard reality of what it looks like when they get out onto the ice.
The latest ignominy, Tuesday’s 4-0 defeat to the Hurricanes at the Lenovo Center, was only the latest in what is now 33 games’ worth of evidence that the Islanders — who were last above NHL .500 on Oct. 25 — are a team that will need everything it has just to reach mediocrity.
Let alone the playoffs.
“We’re getting guys healthy now,” Ryan Pulock told The Post. “We have a full lineup, we need to find a way to win these games. I think it might be somewhat early, but there needs to be urgency. These games are really important. We need to find a way to get some points.”
The Hurricanes were faster, stronger on the puck, harder at the front of the net and — to no one’s surprise — light years better on both special teams units than the Islanders.
Mathew Barzal and Adam Pelech returned to the lineup just two days prior, after six weeks of waiting, and already that has been completely overshadowed because the Islanders’ myriad problems look the exact same as they did with them out.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The Islanders’ belief that they can turn the season around is running into the hard reality of what it looks like when they get out onto the ice.
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