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Islanders handed painful playoffs reminder in loss to Hurricanes

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Nino Niederreiter (l.) battles with the Islanders' Ryan Pulock.

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Islanders got an all too painful reminder of last season’s playoff failures.

Dougie Hamilton and Andrei Svechnikov each had a goal and an assist as the Hurricanes improved to 5-0-0 for the first time with a 5-2 win over the Islanders on Friday night.

Carolina outshot the Islanders 40-19.

Teuvo Teravainen, Brett Pesce and Eric Haula also scored, and Nino Neiderreiter added a pair of assists for the Hurricanes, whose previous best start was 4-0-0 in 1995-96.