The Islanders captain picked up the puck in the neutral zone, skated down the right wing, and cut around Aaron Ekblad before tucking a shot inside Sergei Bobrovsky’s right pad.<\/p>\n
Lee’s goal came after Sam Reinhart tied it 4-4 for the Panthers with 1:58 remaining. With Bobrovsky pulled for an extra attacker, Reinhart was able to beat David Rittich blocker side through a heavy screen from inside the blue line.<\/p>\n
Matthew Schaefer scored twice, including his 20th goal of the season, and also had an assist for the Islanders (35-21-5), who were coming off a 4-3 overtime win at the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday. Rittich made 29 saves.<\/p>\n
Sam Bennett scored twice, and Matthew Tkachuk had three assists for the Panthers (30-27-3), who have lost two of three since the Olympic break and are 2-7-0 in their past nine overall. Bobrovsky made 21 saves.<\/p>\n
Sandis Vilmanis gave the Panthers a 1-0 lead at 3:44 of the first period. He gloved down A.J. Greer’s pass on a 2-on-1 rush before sliding a backhand under the five-hole of Rittich from the bottom edge of the right circle.<\/p>\n
Bennett extended the lead to 2-0 while on a power play at 14:54. He won a face-off before getting the puck back from Ekblad and beating Rittich glove side from the top of the left circle.<\/p>\n
Schaefer cut the deficit to 2-1 at 18:01 with a one-timer from the right circle that redirected off a number of bodies before eventually deflecting off Gustav Forsling\u2019s left leg and hitting the crossbar before banking in off the back of Bobrovsky.<\/p>\n
Carson Soucy tied the game 2-2 at 7:28 of the second period. During 4-on-4 play, Simon Holmstrom had the puck poked off his stick in the top of the left circle, but it went right to Soucy, who quickly shot it under Bobrovsky’s glove.<\/p>\n
Bennett scored his second goal of the game with a backhand that beat Rittich under his blocker arm to give the Panthers a 3-2 lead at 12:04.<\/p>\n
Bo Horvat tied the game 3-3 at 17:14, scoring with a sharp-angled shot that went between Bobrovsky\u2019s right skate and the post from deep in the left corner.<\/p>\n
Schaefer put the Islanders in front 4-3 at 10:29 of the third period, scoring five-hole on Bobrovsky with a shot that first deflected off Evan Rodrigues.<\/p>\n
He is the fourth rookie defenseman in NHL history to score 20 goals in a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders captain picked up the puck in the neutral zone, skated down the right wing, and cut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-513044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513044","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=513044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}