NEW YORK (AP) — Aleksander Barkov had his third profession hat trick, main the Florida Panthers to a 3-2 extra time victory in opposition to the New York Islanders on Tuesday evening.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 24 saves and Eastern Conference-leading Florida prolonged its win streak to 11 video games. Jonathan Huberdeau added three assists.
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Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Sebastion Aho scored for New York, and Ilya Sorokin made 39 saves in his fifth straight begin because the Islanders fell for the second straight recreation.
Barkov accomplished the hat trick 20 seconds into the extra time session when he beat Islanders ahead Kyle Palmieri in a race and pushed a backhand previous Sorokin. It was the Panthers captain’s thirty seventh purpose of the season, a profession excessive.
Barkov knotted the rating at 2-all when he beat Sorokin for the second time with a wrist shot at 16:02 of the third interval. Barkov’s preliminary shot created a scramble in entrance and the puck finally squirted again out to the Finnish heart. Radko Gudas and Huberdeau assisted on the tying purpose.
The Islanders gained a 2-1 benefit when Pageau buried a reasonably go from Mathew Barzal on the facility play at 1:01 of the third interval. New York’s aggressive forecheck to begin the ultimate body pressured MacKenzie Weegar to take a delay-of-game penalty and led to the Islanders alternative on the man-advantage. Noah Dobson additionally assisted.
Weegar took one other expensive penalty late within the third interval that ended a Panthers power-play alternative. He additionally acquired a 10-minute misconduct for slamming his stick in opposition to the glass on his strategy to the penalty field.
Barkov evened the rating at 1-1 when he notched his thirty fifth purpose of the season and eleventh on the facility play at 14:12 of the second interval. The Panthers’ captain cleverly snuck a wrist shot from the purpose whereas Sam Reinhart screened Sorokin. Claude Giroux and Jonathan Huberdeau assisted.
Florida outshot New York 17-12 within the center interval.
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Aho opened the scoring at 4:56 of the second interval along with his second of the season. The 26-year-old despatched a wrist shot over the precise shoulder of Bobrovsky after receiving a lovely cross-ice go from Andy Greene. Kieffer Bellows additionally assisted in his fourth straight look within the lineup following a stretch of six video games wherein the 2016 first-round choose was a wholesome scratch.
Islanders ahead Oliver Wahlstrom was scratched for a second straight recreation.
REMEMBERING MIKE BOSSY
The New York Islanders honored Hall of Fame ahead Mike Bossy with a video tribute and a second of silence previous to puck drop Tuesday. The four-time Stanley Cup champion died on April 15 after a battle with lung most cancers. Bossy was chosen by the Islanders within the first spherical of the 1977 NHL draft and completed his profession with 573 objectives, twenty second all-time in NHL historical past. Only two gamers reached 500 objectives in fewer video games, Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. The seven-time All Star had his quantity retired by the Islanders on March 3, 1992.
UP NEXT:
Islanders: Host New York Rangers on Thursday
Panthers: Host the Detroit Red wins on Thursday within the opener of a three-game homestand.
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