CANES FALLING QUICKLY IN STANDINGS AS ISLES REFUSE TO LOSE
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With a season quickly hitting its midway, the Hurricanes find themselves comfortably in second place as the former Champions, the New York Islanders, continue to steam roll its competition.
"The Isles are as deep as anyone in the league." Said defensema Jay McKee. "They come at you in waves, so much offense. Big problem though is it just isn’t their forwards that are scary, their defense doesn't give you a hell of a lot either. We just have to find a way to keep up with them and hope they hit a slump."
The Canes, who went on an undefeated streak of 16 games, now find themselves 9 points out of first. The Isles have gone 9-0-1 in their last 10 while the Canes stumbled after their big streak and went 4-5-1 in the same span.
"It is no secret that when we slipped, they capitalized," said captain Shane Doan. "We need to concentrate on our own team though. We need to get out offense rolling again. Scoring 10 goals in the last 2 games though seemingly has us back on track. Personally, I think a lot of our offense problems were just mental road blocks, but it seems to me we have moved past that. Bring on whoever now."
The Canes will take on the Columbus Blue Jackets and look for Jose Theodore to get the start in hopes to continue a new streak.
"In order for us to be successful, we need Theo to be solid," said Doan. "He is a monster back there and he gets a lot of teams intimidated before the game even begins. I like that. Makes teams think they need to make the perfect play all the time. Whatever toots their horn."
Columbus is in Carolina tonight.
With a season quickly hitting its midway, the Hurricanes find themselves comfortably in second place as the former Champions, the New York Islanders, continue to steam roll its competition.
"The Isles are as deep as anyone in the league." Said defensema Jay McKee. "They come at you in waves, so much offense. Big problem though is it just isn’t their forwards that are scary, their defense doesn't give you a hell of a lot either. We just have to find a way to keep up with them and hope they hit a slump."
The Canes, who went on an undefeated streak of 16 games, now find themselves 9 points out of first. The Isles have gone 9-0-1 in their last 10 while the Canes stumbled after their big streak and went 4-5-1 in the same span.
"It is no secret that when we slipped, they capitalized," said captain Shane Doan. "We need to concentrate on our own team though. We need to get out offense rolling again. Scoring 10 goals in the last 2 games though seemingly has us back on track. Personally, I think a lot of our offense problems were just mental road blocks, but it seems to me we have moved past that. Bring on whoever now."
The Canes will take on the Columbus Blue Jackets and look for Jose Theodore to get the start in hopes to continue a new streak.
"In order for us to be successful, we need Theo to be solid," said Doan. "He is a monster back there and he gets a lot of teams intimidated before the game even begins. I like that. Makes teams think they need to make the perfect play all the time. Whatever toots their horn."
Columbus is in Carolina tonight.
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