Islanders undone by poor third period as season ends with loss to Hurricanes in Game 5 heartbreaker
NY Post
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Islanders played just well enough to believe until the moment their goal became impossible.
They bowed out of the season on Tuesday evening after scratching and clawing their way back from an early deficit before the third period did them in.
They bowed out in five games to a superior Carolina Hurricanes team, 6-3, in a game and in a series that followed the through line of the season.
Close enough to rip hearts into pieces.
They bowed out, and it might be the end of the franchise’s most successful era since the Dynasty.
“I just feel like we deserved a little bit better,” coach Patrick Roy said. “I’m not saying we should have won the series. I’m saying that we could go home and play Game 6 easily. And instead it’s over. So it just feels empty in the way that I thought we did a lot better than what we got in return.”
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