Rapid Recap: Islanders Blow 3-Goal Lead, Lose to Hurricanes 4-3 (OT)

The New York Islanders blew a three-goal lead Saturday night in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Carolina Hurricanes.

ELMONT, NY – The New York Islanders blew a three-goal lead Saturday night in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. 

RECAP:

The first half of the game was all Islanders, but the team got complacent when they went up by three goals and the Hurricanes climbed back into it.

Noah Dobson got the goal-scoring started for the Islanders at the 17:40 mark of the first. With the game at 4-on-4 off of penalties from Brock Nelson and Brent Burns, Dobson switched with Barzal, received a pass, and did it himself.

He cut towards the net and made a backhand move around Anti Raanta.

Dobson is the first Isanders defenseman with 10 points in the team's first 10 games since James Wisnewski in 2010-11.

Shots were 14-10 in favor of Carolina after one period. Ilya Sorokin had to be sharp and make a few big saves.

With the Islanders up by one early into the second, JG Pageau and Simon Holmstrom found themselves alone on a 2-on-0 shorthanded. Holmstrom buried the Pageau pass to put the Islanders up 2-0. That’s goals in back-to-back games for Holmstrom.

A few minutes later, at 7:46, Horvat fed Barzal through the legs of the Hurricanes defender. Barzal made a beautiful deke move and buried the puck top shelf, putting the Islanders up by three goals.

The Hurricanes quickly responded as Jalen Chatfield got his first goal of the season from a point shot just 32 seconds later. Assists were given to Martinook and Staal, making the score 3-1.

Dmitry Orlov scored his first goal as a Hurricane with 7:41 to go in the game. Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Andrei Svechnikov had the assists. The tally made it a close one-goal game.

The Hurricanes tied it up 3-3 with 4:34 to go when Kotkaniemi found himself in front all alone on the power play. Svechnikov found him with a terrific pass.

The game needed overtime, with the Islanders surrendering an extraordinary 48 shots in regulation while registering only 24 of their own.

Carolina got the game-winner and completed the comeback as Sebastion Aho slotted it five-hole on Ilya Sorokin 1:13 into overtime. This was quickly after Dobson had a great slapshot chance.

This was the second multi-goal lead the Islanders squandered this week and lost in overtime. First to Detroit and now to Carolina.

Sorokin made 44 saves in the loss.

UP NEXT: The Islanders host the Minnesota Wild at UBS Arena with puck drop at 7:30 PM. 

LINES:

Anders Lee - Bo Horvat - Mathew Barzal

Pierre Engvall - Brock Nelson - Kyle Palmieri

Simon Holmstrom - Jean-Gabriel Pageau - Hudson Fasching

Matt Martin - Casey Cizikas - Cal Clutterbuck

Sebastian - Noah Dobson

Alexander Romanov - Ryan Pulock

Samuel Bolduc - Scott Mayfield

Ilya Sorokin

Semyon Varlamov

Brendan Yerkes contributed to this report.