Watch Carolina Hurricanes vs New York Islanders Live Online
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Watch Carolina Hurricanes vs New York Islanders Live Online
This is the first of four meetings between the teams this season. The Hurricanes won every game in 2008-09, and put an exclamation point on the season series by winning 9-0 on April 7 at RBCCenter. Six games into their season, the Islanders still don't have a win. After earning points in their first three contests, New York has come up empty since and is coming off a 4-1 loss on home ice to the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night.
Many were under the impression that Carolina would take the momentum gained from last season's tremendous playoff run and carry it into this campaign, but so far, that hasn't happened. The Hurricanes have won only two of their first seven games and have been outscored 22-15. They're coming off a 2-0 loss to New Jersey on Saturday.
Looking for some type of secondary scoring, Islanders coach Scott Gordon has broken up his top line of John Tavares, Kyle Okposo and Matt Moulson. Tavares will center Moulson and captain Doug Weight, while Okposo will skate alongside Sean Bergenheim and Frans Nielsen, who is set to make his season debut on Wednesday following preseason knee surgery. Gordon was planning on starting the season with that trio before Nielsen went down with a knee injury during training camp.
