{"id":503263,"date":"2026-10-21T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503263\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:02:19","slug":"new-york-islanders-offence-explodes-early-to-beat-anaheim-ducks-for-second-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503263\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Islanders offence explodes early to beat Anaheim Ducks for second straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ondrej Palat<\/a>, Viktor Eklund and Simon Holmstrom<\/a> scored first-period goals and the New York Islanders<\/a> beat the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> 3-2 on Tuesday night for their second straight victory.<\/p>\n

Ilya Sorokin<\/a> made 15 saves to help the Islanders improve to 3-0-1 in their last four games.<\/p>\n

Frank Vatrano<\/a> and Alex Killorn<\/a> scored for Anaheim, which lost its fourth straight game. Lukas Dostal<\/a> finished with 22 saves.<\/p>\n

Palat opened the scoring with 6:21 left in the first period. Jean-Gabriel Pageau<\/a> found Palat streaking toward the net, and the forward fired a wrist shot past Dostal.<\/p>\n

Eklund doubled the lead less than three minutes later. Emil Heineman<\/a> floated a wrist shot from the blue line, and Eklund corralled the loose puck and buried it for his second goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Vatrano pulled the Ducks within a goal 49 seconds later, lifting a backhander past Sorokin off a feed from A.J. Greer.<\/p>\n

Holmstrom restored New York\u2019s two-goal advantage with a power-play goal with 1:18 left in the first, deflecting Mathew Schaefer\u2019s shot from the point past Dostal.<\/p>\n

Killorn pulled Anaheim within a goal with 2:40 remaining in the third.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Ducks: At New Jersey Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Islanders: Host Los Angeles on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full NHL coverage here <\/p>\n

Scott Charles, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ondrej Palat, Viktor Eklund and Simon Holmstrom scored first-period goals and the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,127],"class_list":["post-503263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}