Alex Steeves scored two goals Wednesday night for the Boston Bruins, who completed a season sweep of the New York Islanders with a 3-1 win in Elmont, N.Y.
Tanner Jeannot scored the game-winning goal in the first minute of the second period for the Bruins, who won despite being outshot 45-14.
The 14 shots were the third fewest in a victory in franchise history. Boston had 13 shots in a 2-0 win over the Dallas Stars on Oct. 15, 2003, and also in a 2-0 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Oct. 12, 1955.
Steeves tied the score in the first and iced the win with a short-handed goal in the third as the Bruins won for the third time in seven games (3-4-0) following a seven-game winning streak.
Goalie Jeremy Swayman made 44 saves, including 13 after the Islanders pulled Ilya Sorokin with 4:34 left.
The Bruins finished 3-0-0 against the Islanders, outscoring them 12-6.
Mathew Barzal scored in the first for the Islanders, who are 1-2-0 on a seven-game homestand following a 6-1-0 road trip. Sorokin recorded 11 saves.
Barzal gave the Islanders a short-lived lead in impressive fashion 4:41 into the first. The center, playing on his bobblehead night at UBS Arena, was stationed in the left faceoff circle when he took a pass from Tony D’Angelo. In one motion, Barzal maneuvered the puck around Pavel Zacha and tucked a shot into the left corner of the net past a sprawling Swayman.
Steeves tied the score just 1:42 later, when he put back the rebound of a Sean Kuraly shot over Sorokin.
Jeannot collected the game-winner to cap a chaotic sequence 43 seconds into the middle period. Nikita Zadorov’s shot glanced off Sorokin and bounced off several players in the crease before Jeannot fired a shot over Sorokin’s glove.
A turnover by promising Islanders rookie Matthew Schaefer led to Steeves’ second goal. Steeves picked off a pass by Schaefer to begin a 2-on-1 that ended when Fraser Minten dragged himself around a sprawling Schaefer and dished to Steeves, who beat Sorokin from point-blank range with 9:39 left.
–Field Level Media
