New York Islanders at Carolina Hurricanes: game preview
NY IslandersIslanders2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 43-34-5 · 91 pts · 19that
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndTwenty-two points apart last season
NY Islanders finished last season 19th in the league on 91 points. Carolina finished 2nd on 113, and the 2025-26 season series went CAR 3-0-0.
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Meeting number 126
Across 125 completed games, Carolina lead the head-to-head 79-32-14.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 30 Oct 2025, NY Islanders were 28th in the league and Carolina 9th. By 14 Apr 2026 it was 18th and 2nd.
Carolina out-attempted NY Islanders 198 to 145
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New York Islanders
Carolina Hurricanes
Carolina have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for NY Islanders, 4 for Carolina. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for NY Islanders, 10 for Carolina.
2025-26: 82 games for NY Islanders, 86 for Carolina.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
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Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 26 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 26 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
NY Islanders crease
NYI · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 25 Jan
No appearances against Carolina in the last meetings.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 25 Jan
No appearances against NY Islanders in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.0 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
NY Islanders3.002.332.842.94
Carolina2.753.003.612.93Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
4 on the injury lists
NY Islanders · injuries
Carolina · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Agreed to terms with LD Logan Stanley on a 1-Year contract worth $1.5M. Placed G Vitek Vanecek on waivers with the intention of sending to Hamilton (AHL)
Waived Fs Tanner Fritz, Matt Luff and Nathan Chaffee. Waived Fs Dylan Foudy and Hudson Kuefler for the purpose of sending to Hamilton (AHL).
Signed F Alex Jefferies to a one-year contract.
Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
NY Islanders · 2026 draft
See all: NY Islanders · 2026 draft →Carolina · 2026 draft
See all: Carolina · 2026 draft →Thursday 28 January · the full slate
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