Max Shabanov produced two goals and one assist in his ninth career game as the New York Islanders rolled past the host Detroit Red Wings 5-0 on Thursday night.
Ilya Sorokin recorded his second shutout this season by making 29 saves as the Islanders completed their seven-game road trip with a 6-1 record.
Calum Ritchie supplied a goal and an assist. Mathew Barzal and Bo Harvat also scored for New York while Casey Cizikas contributed two assists.
Horvat, who leads the Islanders with 14 goals, has recorded at least one point in 10 of the last 11 games.
John Gibson made 21 saves for the Red Wings, who had won three of their previous four.
The Islanders emerged from the first period with a 2-0 lead.
Ritchie scored at 6:46 of the period. Shabanov collected the puck at center ice and fed it to Ritchie, who skated along the left side and beat Gibson on the stick side. Adam Boqvist also received an assist, his first of the season.
Shabanov made it 2-0 at 14:54. He took a shot that deflected off a defender and fluttered over Gibson’s right shoulder. Cizikas and Ritchie were credited with assists.
Jonathan Drouin nearly made it 3-0 in the closing seconds of the period when he banged a shot off the right post.
Sorokin made a pad save against Lucas Raymond on a breakaway two minutes into the second period. Barzal then gave the Islanders a 3-0 lead just more than a minute later with a shot from the slot after a Wings turnover in their own zone.
Horvat scored from the right circle at 5:04 of the period, beating Gibson on the glove side to make it 4-0. Ryan Pulock and Emil Heineman earned the assists.
Shabanov scored on a backhander at 6:52 of the third period, which gave the 25-year-old rookie his first multi-goal game. The Russia native entered the night with one goal and two assists.
–Field Level Media
