{"id":503451,"date":"2026-10-21T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503451\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:00:26","slug":"islanders-score-3-first-period-goals-hold-on-to-defeat-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503451\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders score 3 first-period goals, hold on to defeat Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ondrej Palat, Viktor Eklund and Simon Holmstrom scored first-period goals and the New York Islanders beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 on Tuesday night for their second straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Sorokin made 15 saves to help the Islanders improve to 3-0-1 in their last four games.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Vatrano and Alex Killorn scored for Anaheim, which lost its fourth straight game. Lukas Dostal finished with 22 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Palat opened the scoring with 6:21 left in the first period. Jean-Gabriel Pageau found Palat streaking toward the net, and the forward fired a wrist shot past Dostal.<\/p>\n<p>Eklund doubled the lead less than three minutes later. Emil Heineman 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<p>Vatrano pulled the Ducks within a goal 49 seconds later, lifting a backhander past Sorokin off a feed from A.J. Greer.<\/p>\n<p>Holmstrom restored New York&#8217;s two-goal advantage with a power-play goal with 1:18 left in the first, deflecting Mathew Schaefer&#8217;s shot from the point past Dostal.<\/p>\n<p>Killorn pulled Anaheim within a goal with 2:40 remaining in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: At New Jersey Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Islanders: Host Los Angeles on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ondrej Palat, Viktor Eklund and Simon Holmstrom scored first-period goals and the New York Islanders beat the Anaheim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,50825,404],"class_list":["post-503451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-islanders","tag-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503451","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=503451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}