{"id":285807,"date":"2025-11-15T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285807\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:41:09","slug":"schaefer-youngest-to-score-in-ot-lifts-islanders-to-3-2-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285807\/","title":{"rendered":"Schaefer youngest to score in OT, lifts Islanders to 3-2 win"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY — Matthew Schaefer<\/a> scored on a slap shot 2:08 into overtime to become the youngest player to score an overtime goal in a regular-season NHL game and the New York Islanders<\/a> beat the Utah Mammoth 3-2 on Friday night for their third straight extra-time victory.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Drouin<\/a> and Emil Heineman<\/a> also scored for the Islanders (10-6-2) in their fourth straight win, and Tony DeAngelo<\/a> had two assists. David Rittich<\/a> stopped 27 shots, including all 16 after the first period.<\/p>\n

Schaefer, the defenseman selected No. 1 overall in this year’s NHL draft, has 15 points, most among NHL rookies. He is 18 years and 70 days old, younger than Sidney Crosby<\/a>, who was 18 years and 101 days when he scored an OT goal on Nov. 16, 2005.<\/p>\n

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Dylan Guenther<\/a> and JJ Peterka<\/a> scored for the Mammoth in the Utah franchise’s 100th game. Karel Vejmelka<\/a> had 18 saves.<\/p>\n

The Mammoth are the best in the NHL in limiting shots on goal and they outshot the Islanders 29-21 as they dropped to 5-1-1 at home.<\/p>\n

New York tied it 2-2 with 6:16 remaining when the puck went off Drouin’s skate and was touched by Utah defenseman Nate Schmidt<\/a>‘s stick as it passed over the goal line. The goal was initially disallowed but reversed after video review.<\/p>\n

At 18 years, 70 days old, Islanders rookie Matthew Schaefer broke Sidney Crosby’s record as the youngest player to score an overtime goal.\u00a0Photo by Aaron Baker\/Icon Sportswire<\/p>\n

Heineman opened the scoring 7:13 into the first period — the second straight contest he notched the first goal of the game.<\/p>\n

Peterka tied it with just under 7 minutes remaining in the first with his sixth of the season.<\/p>\n

The Mammoth ended their seven-game power-play goal drought when Guenther’s slap shot went over Rittich’s shoulder during a 5-on-3 with 1:25 left in the opening period to take a 2-1 lead. That marked the first time this season the Islanders gave up a goal with a two-man disadvantage.<\/p>\n

The Islanders beat Las Vegas in overtime Thursday and was in the second half or a back-to-back but matched the Mammoth’s energy with rugged defense and deft power-play kills, squelching five of six opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY — Matthew Schaefer scored on a slap shot 2:08 into overtime to become the youngest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-285807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}