{"id":567197,"date":"2026-03-28T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567197\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:56:08","slug":"islanders-rally-from-a-two-goal-deficit-to-beat-the-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567197\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders rally from a two-goal deficit to beat the Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014\u00a0Brayden Schenn\u00a0had a goal and two assists,\u00a0Matthew Schaefer\u00a0tied the rookie defenceman franchise scoring record and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/new-york-islanders\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-islanders\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Islanders<\/a> rallied to beat\u00a0the two-time defending champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/florida-panthers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"florida-panthers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Panthers<\/a>\u00a05-2 on Saturday and keep pace in a competitive Eastern Conference playoff race.<\/p>\n<p>Schenn,\u00a0acquired at the trade deadline, scored the tying goal in the second period after\u00a0U.S. Olympic gold medal-winner\u00a0Matthew Tkachuk put Florida up 2-0 through 14 minutes. Fourth-liner Marc Gatcomb started the comeback and later assisted on Casey Cizikas\u2019 goal that made it 5-2.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer with a pair of assists matched Stefan Persson from 1977-78 at 56 points. His next goal will tie Schaefer with Brian Leetch for the most\u00a0by a rookie defenceman\u00a0in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Sorokin allowed only the two goals from Tkachuk and stopped the other 17 shots he faced. Swedes Simon Holmstrom and Emil Heineman also scored for the Islanders, who have won two in a row since losing three of their previous four.<\/p>\n<p>The injury-ravaged Panthers moved a step closer to getting eliminated from playoff contention. They&#8217;re without forwards\u00a0Brad Marchand,\u00a0Sam Bennett, Sam Reinhart,\u00a0Anton Lundell, Evan Rodrigues and\u00a0A.J. Greer\u00a0and have not had\u00a0captain Aleksander Barkov\u00a0all season after he\u00a0tore ligaments in his right knee\u00a0during training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Panthers: Visit the Rangers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Islanders: Host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014\u00a0Brayden Schenn\u00a0had a goal and two assists,\u00a0Matthew Schaefer\u00a0tied the rookie defenceman franchise scoring record and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-567197","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\/567197","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=567197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}