Kyle Palmieri scored the tiebreaking goal with 6:14 left for the visiting New York Islanders, who completed a successful weekend with a 4-2 win over the Ottawa Senators on Sunday.
Anders Lee and Kyle MacLean scored in the first and Bo Horvat added an empty-netter with 51 seconds left for the Islanders, who have won two straight for just the second time this season. New York beat the visiting Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 on Saturday.
Goalie Ilya Sorokin made 29 saves.
Adam Gaudette scored in the first and Josh Norris had a goal in the second for the Senators, who had their two-game winning streak snapped. Goalie Anton Forsberg recorded nine saves.
Gaudette gave the Senators a short-lived lead by capping an end-to-end rush 5:37 into the first. Noah Gregor was about to go around the net but saw Gaudette shove Islanders defenseman Isaiah George, who slipped as he tried to regain his position. Gregor passed into the crease to Gaudette, who shoveled a shot beyond Sorokin’s glove.
The Islanders tied the score with a power-play goal just under seven minutes later when Lee collected the rebound of Noah Dobson’s shot and navigated the puck around Forsberg’s stick at the 12:27 mark.
MacLean put the Islanders ahead 2:21 later. Dennis Cholowski’s pass into the crease glanced off the stick of MacLean, who was battling for position with Senators defenseman Nick Jensen, and fluttered past Forsberg.
Norris tied the score 37 seconds into the middle period with a power-play goal set up by a nifty pass from Drake Batherson. The right winger, stationed in the crease, took a pass from Tim Stutzle and sent a no-look dish to Norris, who buried a shot in the upper right corner.
A tripping call on Norris with seven minutes left set up Palmieri’s game-winner. Lee passed from the goal line to Palmieri, who fired a shot from the left faceoff circle that sailed under Forsberg’s glove.
Forsberg was pulled with a little under three minutes remaining but the Senators didn’t record a shot before Horvat iced the victory with his empty-netter.
–Field Level Media
