After dropping their preseason opener to the New York Rangers on Tuesday night, the New York Islanders bounced back with a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers at UBS Arena.
NEW YORK, NY -- After dropping their preseason opener to the New York Rangers on Tuesday night, the New York Islanders bounced back with a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers at UBS Arena.
LINES:
Simon Holmstrom-Bo Horvat-Mathew Barzal
Ruslan Iskhakov-Casey Cizikas-Julien Gauthier
Dmytro Timashov-Karson Kuhlman-Oliver Wahlstrom
Matt Martin-Brian Pinho-Eetu Liukas
Travis Mitchell-Noah Dobson
Robin Salo-Dennis Cholowski
Adam Pelech-Paul LaDue
Ilya Sorokin
Ken Appleby
Rapid Recap:
Simon Holmstrom opened the scoring at 12:38 of the first period as a Mathew Barzal deflection grazed his shoulder before beating Flyers netminder Felix Sandstrom.
Goaltender Ilya Sorokin stopped all 12 shots that came his way in 30:33 minutes.
Julien Gauthier doubled the Islanders lead at 14:00 of the second period as he rifled home a power-play goal from the right circle. Robin Salo and Holmstrom were credited with the assists.
Ryan Poehling scored to cut the Islanders lead to 2-1 at 17:36 of the third.
Goaltender Ken Appleby stopped 14 of 15 shots that came his way.
Quotes:
"Good for a first game. We had a big couple of days of camp, so it's nice to get back at it now [...] It's always great whenever you score a goal."--Gauthier
“I feel great. It was just so exciting driving back into the tunnel knowing I'm gonna play a hockey game. Honestly felt pretty good.” -- Wahlstrom
"I didn't think we were very good at times. We gave up the ice a couple times. And so again, a little bit of a work in progress here. For the most part, better, but a ways to go still." -- Lambert
Islanders PP Units (1/4)
PP1: Iskhakov-Horvat-Wahlstrom-Barzal-Dobson
PP2: Gauthier-Kuhlman-Liukas-Holmstrom-Salo
Islanders PK Units (3/3)
PK1: Cizikas-Martin-Pelech-LaDue
PK2: Kuhlman-Gauthier-Mitchell-Dobson
NEXT: The Islanders host the New York Rangers at UBS Arena on Friday. Puck drop is slated for 7 PM ET.