Pageau scores short-handed goal in OT as Islanders beat Golden Knights 4-3

Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored a short-handed extremity astatine 3:02 of overtime, and the New York Islanders bushed the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 for their 3rd consecutive win

LAS VEGAS -- Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored a short-handed extremity astatine 3:02 of overtime, and the New York Islanders bushed the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 connected Thursday nighttime for their 3rd consecutive win.

Matthew Schaefer had a extremity and an assist, and Mathew Barzal and Emil Heineman besides scored for New York. Bo Horvat and Jonathan Drouin each had 2 assists and Ilya Sorokin stopped 26 shots arsenic the Islanders improved to 5-1-1 successful their past 7 games.

Shea Theodore, Thomas Hertl and Reilly Smith scored for Vegas, which mislaid its 4th consecutive (0-2-2) and seventh successful its past 9 (2-4-3). Akira Schmid finished with 20 saves.

On a delayed punishment for excessively galore men connected the Islanders, Sorokin denied a driving effort by Jack Eichel, and Hertl's effort connected the rebound went disconnected the crossbar.

After the punishment was called, Pageau got the puck aft a gully successful the Islanders' zone, skated up the crystal and fired a changeable past Schmid from the close ellipse for the win.

Barzal tied it 3-3 with a one-timer from the near ellipse disconnected a walk from Schaefer with 2:37 remaining.

The Golden Knights had taken the pb with 3 consecutive goals aft falling down 2-0 successful the archetypal period.

Theodore got the Golden Knights connected the committee with 1:04 near successful the second. Theodore chopped done respective players, went successful connected Sorokin and sent the puck arsenic helium fell down. Sorokin appeared to contradict the effort but Theodore's escaped instrumentality pushed the puck crossed the line.

Hertl tied it astatine 8:23 of the 3rd arsenic helium scored connected the rebound of Jack Eichel's changeable during a delayed penalty.

Smith enactment the Golden Knights up 2:22 later, scoring from the close broadside connected a crisp space adjacent the extremity line.

Heineman gave the Islanders a 1-0 pb with 5:57 near successful the archetypal arsenic helium scored from the apical of the close circle.

Schaefer doubled the pb with a power-play extremity connected a agelong changeable from the constituent done postulation with 2:01 to spell successful the opening period.

Islanders: At Utah connected Friday night.

Golden Knights: At St. Louis connected Saturday night.

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