Islanders show flashes of brilliance, but same problems turn up again in loss to Hurricanes

New York Post · Ethan Sears · 2026-11-06 03:10 UTC

The Islanders lost consecutive games in regulation for the first time this season.

The Hurricanes have rolled into UBS Arena and overwhelmed the Islanders before, and it’s happened so many times that their 2-0 lead inside of four minutes Thursday night felt like the start of something embarrassing.

That it was, instead, the first act of a pulsating 60 minutes of hockey is something in which the Islanders might take heart. That it ended up making the difference in the end, that they failed to play a full 60 minutes, and that they still haven’t beaten the reigning-champion Hurricanes in 22 months are what they ought to regret bitterly.

“We kind of let that one slip through our fingers,” Kyle Palmieri told The Post after this 5-3 defeat to Carolina.

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