Petr Mrazek and Robin Lehner were easily the best players on their teams Friday. imacSportsnet has your complete Game 1 takeaways. Isles TakeWarning
The 27-year-olds appeared to be playing themselves towards the National Hockey League exit when they were unimpressive enough last season that their teams cut them adrift as unrestricted free agents rather than extend qualifying offers to retain their rights.
The contracts these goalies were offered by Carolina and the Islanders, identical one-year $1.5 million deals, were essentially NHL life rafts — a chance for them to save their careers by proving they could still stop pucks at an elite level. It came after Islanders winger Cal Clutterbuck, with time on the puck in an attacking position, passed it to no one inside the Carolina blue line to launch a two-on-one counterattack by the Hurricanes. New York survived the initial rush, but couldn’t regain the puck before Staal was able to whack it past defenceman Devon Toews’ stick and Lehner’s outstretched left pad.
Still, it was no Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Given the emotions of the playoffs, albeit in a Stanley Cup tournament in which “home-ice advantage” often no longer exists, you have to wonder if the Islanders will miss their old barn this series.It was impressive how the Hurricanes, badly outplayed for the final 15 minutes of the opening period, recovered their equilibrium, caught up to the Islanders in the middle frame and pushed the game at them in the third.
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