Pierre Engvall scored the tiebreaking objective in New York’s four-goal third interval, and the Islanders rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 on Tuesday evening.
Kyle Palmieri had a objective and two assists, Noah Dobson added a objective and an help, and Simon Holmstrom additionally scored to assist New York get 4 objectives within the third after trailing 2-0 for the second straight recreation. Ilya Sorokin completed with 20 saves.
Sidney Crosby scored his twenty fourth objective, Joona Koppanen received the primary of his NHL profession and Tristan Jarry stopped 34 pictures for the Penguins, who snapped a four-game win streak.
Palmieri received the Islanders on the scoreboard 17 seconds into the third as he chased down the puck after it received away from Penguins defenseman Kris Letang, skated in on Jarry and fired a shot in off the best put up.
Dobson tied it as he knocked within the rebound of Bo Horvat’s driving try at 5:34.
Engvall put the Islanders forward as he beat Jarry with 6:52 left, and Holmstrom added an empty-netter with 1:32 remaining to seal the win.
Koppanen gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead as he deflected Vladislav Kolyachonok’s shot from the purpose previous Sorokin 4:40 into the sport.
Crosby doubled the lead with 15 seconds left within the first as he knocked within the rebound of a shot by Conor Timmins.
TakeawaysIslanders: New York gained for the second time in 5 video games and is three factors out of a wild card spot within the Japanese Convention.
Penguins: Pittsburgh was making an attempt for its first five-game win streak since Nov. 4-14, 2023. As a substitute, the Penguins fell to 5-4-1 of their final 10 video games.
Key momentThe Penguins had a number of probabilities to attain late within the ultimate minute of the primary interval. Sorokin made saves on pictures by Rickard Rakell and Timmins earlier than Crosby scored to provide him 1,670 factors for his profession. He moved previous Wayne Gretzky for the fourth-most factors with one franchise in NHL historical past.
Key statThe Islanders improved to 5-21-2 when trailing after two intervals, and the Penguins fell to 18-2-2 when main after two.
Up nextIslanders host Montreal on Thursday evening, and Penguins host Columbus on Friday.
