The Isles added two goals following turnovers to beat the Hurricanes on Tuesday night and extend their first-round playoff series.
were ready to capitalize, both on a bizarre bounce of the puck and mistakes by the Carolina Hurricanes. That was enough to keep them alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
"We believe in one another, we believe in this group and what we can do and how we can play," Islanders captain Anders Lee said."That was no different coming into this evening. ... We came in tonight and played a very solid hockey game and put everything on the line." The Hurricanes certainly would've preferred to close this one out Tuesday considering how they're grinding forward with an injury-depleted group of forwards — including top names like Andrei Svechnikov and Teuvo Teravainen .
"I like the way we played, played hard," Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said."We had a couple of mistakes that cost us, but there wasn't a ton of those. It's just the bounces didn't go our way. It's very simple."Nelson's goal stood out. He swung at the puck after it had struck Aho near the mouth and was falling to the ice, batting it past Raanta on the right side early in the second for a wild score.
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