Schaefer scores in OT to give Islanders 3-2 win over Mammoth for 4th straight victory

Matthew Schaefer scored connected a slap changeable 2:08 into overtime and the New York Islanders bushed the Utah Mammoth 3-2 for their 3rd consecutive extra-time victory

SALT LAKE CITY -- Matthew Schaefer scored connected a slap changeable 2:08 into overtime and the New York Islanders bushed the Utah Mammoth 3-2 connected Friday nighttime for their 3rd consecutive extra-time victory.

Jonathon Drouin and Emil Heineman besides scored for the Islanders (10-6-2) successful their 4th consecutive win, and Tony DeAngelo had 2 assists. David Rittich stopped 27 shots — including each 16 aft the archetypal period.

Schaefer, the 18-year-old defenseman selected No. 1 wide successful this year's NHL draft, has 15 points — astir among NHL rookies.

Dylan Guenther and JJ Peterka scored for the Mammoth successful the Utah franchise's 100th game. Karel Vejmelka had 18 saves.

The Mammoth are the champion successful the NHL successful limiting shots connected extremity and they outshot the Islanders 29-21 arsenic they dropped to 5-1-1 astatine home.

New York tied it 2-2 with 6:16 remaining erstwhile the puck went disconnected Jonathon Drouin's skate and was touched by Utah defenseman Nate Schmidt's instrumentality arsenic it passed implicit the extremity line. The extremity was initially disallowed but reversed aft video review.

Heineman opened the scoring 7:13 into the archetypal play — the 2nd consecutive contention helium notched the archetypal extremity of the game.

Peterka tied it with conscionable nether 7 minutes remaining successful the archetypal with his sixth of the season.

The Mammoth ended their seven-game power-play extremity drought erstwhile Guenther's slap changeable went implicit Rittich's enarthrosis during a 5-on-3 with 1:25 near successful the opening play to instrumentality a 2-1 lead. That marked the archetypal clip this play the Islanders gave up a extremity with a two-man disadvantage.

The Islanders bushed Las Vegas successful overtime Thursday and was successful the 2nd fractional oregon a back-to-back but matched the Mammoth's vigor with rugged defence and deft power-play kills, squelching 5 of six opportunities.

Islanders: At Colorado connected Sunday for the 5th crippled of their roadworthy trip.

Mammoth: At Anaheim connected Monday.

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