First things first: Lou Lamoriello will be back next season as president and general manager of the Islanders and Patrick Roy will be back as the head coach . So no, ownership is not burning the house down after a third straight season without a playoff series victory . But for the first time in a long time, Lamoriello sounded open to the idea that the Islanders are in need of some changes when he spoke at the team's breakup day Friday. 3 Lou Lamoriello will return as General Manager of the New York Islanders next year. AP “First of all, change is inevitable,” Lamoriello said. “It's obvious w ..read more

Round 2 between the Rangers and Hurricanes starts this weekend. Here are the ticket prices for Game 1 at Madison Square Garden on Sunday ..read more

As a member of the U.S. national team and a former Gopher, Kelly Pannek has played for Olympic gold medals and NCAA championships. But the PWHL Minnesota forward has never faced the kind of pressure her team will experience on Saturday, when it ends the regular season at New York with a playoff berth on the line. Minnesota has been chasing that prize for more than two weeks, needing only one ..read more

Matt Martin and Cal Clutterbuck spent the majority of the last 11 years together on the New York Islanders' fourth line. Now they head into the offseason as unrestricted free agents and neither veteran winger has any intention of retiring. “The retirement narrative was certainly not something I started,” Martin joked. Turning 35 years old on Wednesday, Martin has already gone through this once ..read more

On Tuesday, April 30, the Carolina Hurricanes eliminated the New York Islanders 4-1 after winning Game 5 6-3. It is the sixth straight season of the Hurricanes winning the first round to advance in the playoffs. Head coach Rod Brind'Amour is the second coach in NHL history to win a playoff series in the first six years of his coaching career joining Pat Burns. In terms of the players, what three guys stood out in helping Carolina win the series ..read more

The New York Islanders' tenure in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs was short-lived, swiftly ended by the Carolina Hurricanes for the second year in a row. It was a whirlwind campaign for the Islanders, who fired head coach Lane Lambert and brought Patrick Roy aboard to jumpstart their fortunes. What exactly went wrong for the Islanders against the Hurricanes ..read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes are getting production throughout their lineup to start the NHL playoffs. The win came with a healthy output from the supporting forwards behind top threats like Sebastian Aho, Andrei Svechnikov, Seth Jarvis and Jake Guentzel in what became a recurring theme. By the end, third- or fourth-liners like trade-deadline acquisition Evgeny Kuznetsov, dirty-work finisher Stefan Noesen and first-time postseason goal scorer Jack Drury had at least three points in the five-game series ..read more

Rod Brind’Amour is in the final year of a deal reached in 2021 ..read more

Strangely enough, there was a good portion of the fanbase actually rooting for the Islanders to at the very least, make it a series as to prolong the journey for our potential next round opponent. Despite the longest overtime we've had in a first round that surprisingly hasn't had many long nights, the Islanders didn't give the Hurricanes a run for their money in the slightest. Believe it or not, I actually went with the Islanders in seven games when making my first round predictions which in hindsight, may have been banking on a version of the Islanders completely different from what we saw i ..read more

The Carolina Hurricanes are one step closer to a potential Stanley Cup title after eliminating the New York Islanders in five games on Tuesday night in the first round of the playoffs. GM Don Waddell shed light on DeAngelo and Brett Pesce's injury, revealing the latter could play in round two. It's important to note that DeAngelo has been playing more lately because of Pesce's injury ..read more