Islanders Beat Flyers 2-1 For 1st Preseason Win

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.