The NY Islanders played arguably their best game of the season Saturday night at UBS Arena, taking down the Boston Bruins 5-1. If anything, that score doesn’t do the Isles justice. The Islanders beat the Bears from the opening jump shot to the final horn. The Iceland penalty shootout was 3-3 on the night, the power play led to a goal and Ilya Sorokin won three games in a row for the first time this season.The Islanders started the party right away, Kyle Palmieri scored three and a half minutes into the first half Less than two minutes later, Palmieri scored again, this time on the power play, whenk James Van Riemsdy went to make a save in the box. And of course, Palmieri completed the hat trick at 12:19 of the first to give the Isles a 3-0 lead. Palmieri scored three goals at 12:19 of the first period. He scored the first hat trick in Islanders history.After the first game 3-0 in the locker room, the second period started much the same. . Less than a minute later, captain Anders Lee scored his 16th goal of the season with a pass to Palmieri, who seemingly could do no wrong on the play. Ten minutes later, Brock Nelson, whose name has come up in trade chatter recently, scored his team’s 28th goal of the season to put the Islanders up 5-0. Marc McLaughlin shut out the Bruins with his first goal of the season, but the Islanders took a comfortable 5-1 lead into the second period.The third period was scoreless and the Islanders continued their aggressive play. and earn several strange male impulses. This frustrated the Bears, who became hostile as the period wore on. But that didn’t faze the Islanders as they kept their cool and finished with an impressive 5-1 victory in their most complete performance of the season.WHAT WENT RIGHTMostly everything tonight. Ilya Sorokin was one goal away from Marc McLaughlin’s offside when he was up between the pipes. The Isles’ defense limited the Bruins to one goal and just 24 shots, and the penalty kill had a perfect night, killing all three of the Bruins’ power plays. On offense, the Isles scored 5 goals, including a power play goal
.Simply put, the Islanders were firing on all cylinders in this game.WHAT WENT WRONGThe only thing that went wrong in my eyes was Kyle Palmieri not scoring in the fourth. The Islanders were a complete team tonight and hopefully they will continue this type of effort for the rest of the season.GAME STATS- Mathew Barzal’s 46th assist of the season now gives him 64 points. in season It is the longest season of Barzal’s career behind the Calder Trophy-winning 85 points in 2017-18.- Ilya Sorokin has now won 20 games in three consecutive seasons and becomes the first Islanders goaltender with three straight 20- point games. games win seasons, as Rick DiPietro had four straight 20 win seasons from 2003-04 to 2007-08 (note that the 2004-05 NHL season was canceled due to layoffs).Hug your goalie. pic.twitter.com/GcNRsGVOIh—
New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) March 3, 2024- The Islanders won 61.5% of their games tonight. The Isles are at their best – like most teams in the NHL – when they dominate the opposing circle because it allows them to push the game more aggressively against their opponents.- One area the Bruins have done well this -in the evening there was a shooting which they won.
the Islands of 36:6. The Islanders in particular stayed consistent throughout this game and did wonders when they came out on top where it really mattered.MOMENT OF THE GAME SOCIAL REMEDIESIslanders were completely baffled by Kyle Palmieri’s first season hat trick that stopped the night tone After Palmieri’s natural hat trick in the first 12 minutes of the game, the Isles never looked back and closed it out early.THIS MANARE YOU SURPRISED?!?!? pic.twitter.com/JaAo71uFRt— Kim M. (@IslesGirl3)
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