{"id":416401,"date":"2026-01-18T01:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416401\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T01:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:04:08","slug":"flames-hold-off-islanders-for-3rd-victory-in-4-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416401\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames hold off Islanders for 3rd victory in 4 games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kuznetsov made it 4-0 at 11:49 with a wrist shot from the left point to the top right corner. Connor Zary<\/a> had the secondary assist to extend his point streak to a career-high five games (two goals, four assists).<\/p>\n

\u201cZary\u2019s been on a bit of a run lately,\u201d said Huska, who also commended Nazem Kadri<\/a> for helping set up the goal with the primary assist. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to see [Zary] continue to get offensive production there, and \u2018Naz\u2019 has not. It\u2019s nice to see \u2018Naz\u2019 get something on the scoreboard tonight, so it\u2019s good when you get contributions from everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pageau scored from the left circle just 32 seconds later, lifting a shot to the short side to make it 4-1 at 12:21.<\/p>\n

New York coach Patrick Roy pulled Rittich for an extra attacker with 8:04 remaining in the third period. Lee then cut it to 4-2 at 17:04 with his 300th NHL goal and first in 10 games, squeezing a shot from below the left circle through Wolf\u2019s pads.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd [to] shoot from that angle and score, I mean, I\u2019m sure that\u2019s got to be a good confidence builder for him,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n

Prior to Lee\u2019s goal, Wolf attempted to score into the empty net, but his shot from the edge of his own crease 176 feet away trickled a few feet wide of the net with 5:22 left.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just tried to get it off as quick as I could,\u201d Wolf said. \u201cI liked the angle I took at it, but just a bad hop. You don\u2019t get too many opportunities where they pull their guy with eight minutes to go. I\u2019ll try again next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOTES: Lee became the fifth player to score 300 goals with the Islanders, joining Mike Bossy<\/a> (573), Bryan Trottier<\/a> (500), Denis Potvin<\/a> (310) and Clark Gillies<\/a> (304). \u2026 Schaefer, 18, had his sixth career multipoint game. The only defensemen to have more before turning 19 years old are Phil Housley<\/a> (13), Bobby Orr<\/a> (eight) and Rasmus Dahlin<\/a> (eight). \u2026 Andersson reached 20 assists for the fifth consecutive season, becoming the seventh defenseman in Flames history with a streak of at least that length. The others are Al MacInnis<\/a> (11 from 1983-94), Gary Suter<\/a> (eight from 1985-93), Mark Giordano<\/a> (seven from 2013-20), TJ Brodie<\/a> (six from 2013-19), Derek Morris (five from 1997-98 to 2001-02) and Randy Manery (five from 1972-77).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kuznetsov made it 4-0 at 11:49 with a wrist shot from the left point to the top right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-416401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}