Islanders Come Back In The Third Period Again, Beat Penguins 4-2

Without their No. 1 defenseman Alexander Romanov, the New York Islanders ran back their script from Sunday night. 

Trailing 2-0 entering the third, the Islanders stormed back with three unanswered goals for the 4-2 comeback victory. 

Here's how it happened:

The Islanders recorded the first five shots of the game as they came ready to play. They were fast with their regroups, generating chance after chance but could not score. 

Then, on the Penguins' first shot of the game, Joona Koppanen scored his first career NHL goal after he deflected a Vladisalv Kolyachonok point shot:

The Islanders found a way to tilt the ice back but could not score.

And then, before the end of the first period, Sidney Crosby batted a loose puck glove side on Sorokin with 15 seconds to go in the first:

Patrick Roy challenged for goaltender interference, but lost, putting Pittsburgh on the power play. 

The Islanders killed off the penalty, served by Pierre Engvall, but found themselves on the kill a few minutes later after Bo Horvat took an unsportsmanlike penalty. 

They got the kill but nothing else in the second period as they entered the third down 2-0. 

However, the Islanders got on the board just 17 seconds into the third period. Kyle Palmieri's breakaway wrist shot hit off the glove-side post, Tristan Jarry's back, and then in to cut their deficit to 2-1. 

Noah Dobson tied the game at 2-2, scoring in back-to-back games after he buried a Bo Horvat rebound at 5:34 of the second:

For the second straight game, the Islanders came all the way back, with Pierre Engvall scoring at 13:08 of the third to give his team a 3-2 lead:

At 18:28 of the third, Simon Holmstrom called a game with his second empty-net goal in as many games to set a new  career-high with 16 goals on the season. 

UP NEXT: The Islanders host the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday at 7:30 PM ET