Pavel Zacha scored the game-winning and insurance goals less than three minutes apart in the third period on Wednesday night ...
The New York Islanders (8-9-5) found a way to do it again. The Islanders blew a third-period lead for the fourth time in five ...
Simon Holmstrom’s first stint on the Islanders’ top line was a flop. Try two, however, has been a different story.
But the Islanders, who struggled for much of the ... who made 38 saves, including two point-blank shots from McDavid on a rush at 15:07 of the third period before Lee tied it.
Then, Holmstrom scored his second of the game at 18:09 of the middle frame, after he deflected a Dennis Cholowski point shot to extend the Islanders' lead to 4-2: That was Holmstrom's first career ...
It took the Sabres only four days to spoil the momentum that they built by sweeping the three-game trip through California.
16 points in 16 games is substandard in the NHL as an 82-point season would leave the Islanders far from a playoff spot. Last season, they qualified with 94 points and the cutoff in the Eastern ...
The Islanders break their third-period curse and actually add a goal while preserving Sorokin’s first shutout of the season.