New York Islanders racked up their sixth victory of the National Hockey League campaign after brushing the Calgary Flames aside in a 4-0 win. “Everyone is doing a good job. And every point is huge for us”.
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Chicago became the first team to win consecutive games by a 1-0 score in overtime with the same goal scorer and goaltender.
There’ll be no chorus singing “New York, New York”, by Frank Sinatra on the plane ride to the next city on the Calgary Flames’ road trip. Kyle Okposo also had a two-assist night and now has six on the season.
NOTES: Islanders D Thomas Hickey, who sustained a lower-body injury Saturday in a win over the St. Louis Blues, is expected to miss a month after being placed on injured reserve Monday morning.
“Special teams was a factor”, Jack Capuano said. “I thought everybody contributed”.
Nielsen scored 5:26 into the third. “Our second and third efforts are paying off”.
“We can’t have too many more of these or it will get away from us pretty quickly”, Flames captain Mark Giordano said. “Tonight we unraveled a bit”.
“I just think we’re getting better as the game goes on”, Clutterbuck said. It lead to a goal from Frans Nielsen off a deflection from Kris Russel’s stick. Casey Cizikas rang one off the crossbar midway through the first period.
New York held a 14-8 shots advantage in the first. Each team ended with ten shots each in the second period.
It was more than enough support for Halak, who is 3-1-0 with a 1.76 goals-against average and. Grabovski took a pass from center Josh Bailey, who was stationed along the left boards, and fired a shot under the right armpit of Flames goalie Joni Ortio.
Calgary Flames’ Jiri Hudler (24) chases New York Islanders’ Travis Hamonic (3) during the fi … But what they’ve done has put them back near the top of the conference before the first month of the season is finished. “But we let in one goal get us down. We have to fight through and turn this around”. New York finally broke the scoreless tie on a Mikhail Grabovski power play goal, his second goal of the year.
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Islanders forward Ryan Strome returned after he was a healthy scratch in the previous game. And the Martin-Cizikas-Cal Clutterbuck trio, the only line that has remained intact through all nine games, barreled through the Flames all night and produced the third goal, a wrister by Clutterbuck at 11:33 of the third after a few strong boardwork by Cizikas.
