The New York Islanders host the team that ousted them last spring, the Carolina Hurricanes, for their tenth game of a thus-far pleasant 5-2-2 season.
They’ll do so without Adam Pelech, something that was expected but was surprisingly confirmed by the team at today’s morning skate.
The Canes are off to a 6-5-0 start — uneven and disappointing by their current standards, which include being a favorite to win the division and contend for an elusive Cup. (It’s hard to say a Cup is “elusive” for a franchise that won it in 2006, but they’ve been on a good run under Rod Brind’Amour and many feel like they’ll break all the way through one of these years.