The New York Islanders used goals in each of the first two periods to break a four-game losing streak, beating the host Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday night.
Alexander Romanov and Kyle Palmieri scored New York’s goals. Palmieri’s tally at 4:21 of the second stood as the game-winner.
Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin stood tall all night with 38 saves, including 15 in the first period.
David Pastrnak scored the lone goal and Jeremy Swayman made 18 saves for Boston, which is on a five-game skid (0-3-2).
Pastrnak has points in 16 straight games, marking the longest streak in the NHL this season and tied for the longest all-time by a Czech-born player. The goal was his 800th career point.
Boston led 39-20 in shots on goal, registering double digits in each period.
The Bruins’ 15-6 shot edge over the opening 20 minutes was aided by two power plays, and after coming up empty on both, they surrendered the opening goal at 16:11. Rushing out of the box and down the wing, Romanov took Jean-Gabriel Pageau’s pass and fired a glove-side wrist shot past Swayman on a 2-on-1 rush.
Less than a minute after Sorokin denied Pavel Zacha on a breakaway at the other end of the ice, New York doubled its lead when Palmieri crashed the net and buried the rebound of a Brock Nelson shot from the wing that caromed off Swayman into the middle.
Before going down 2-0, the hosts had a golden chance to trim their deficit as Nikita Zadorov clanked the left post with a wrister just 16 seconds into the middle frame.
Pastrnak broke the shutout with 9:56 left in regulation, though, taking a shot from the right goal line that deflected in off the goaltender.
Swayman kept his team in a 2-1 game after stretching across the crease to pad away a point-blank rebound chance by Hudson Fasching with 7:34 to go.
Sorokin matched him with a pad save on Pastrnak at the doorstep before Swayman was pulled for an extra attacker.
Boston forward Matt Poitras left the game after taking Nelson’s check into the open door of the New York bench late in the second period. Before the start of the third, the team announced that he was unlikely to return due to a lower-body injury.
–Field Level Media
