added some more afterward, saying such a play \u201cshould not be a part of our game.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThat\u2019s scary stuff,\u201d Anders Lee said. \u201cGame\u2019s fast, game\u2019s heavy. It happens sometimes. You just hate to see it. Doesn\u2019t matter when. Just hoping he\u2019s doing all right right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aside from making clear that Romanov did not need to go to the hospital, there was no update on his status from the Islanders.<\/p>\n
Mikko Rantanen (96) is called for a game misconduct penalty for boarding on Alexander Romanov (28) during the third period of the Islanders\u2019 road loss to the Stars. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
And after things calmed down from the injury, they still had 27.3 seconds over which to defend a tenuous 3-2 lead. <\/p>\n
They defended it for 27.2 seconds, and then Wyatt Johnston poked in a rebound that appeared to add another heartbreak onto the night for the Islanders.<\/p>\n
After a review, it was determined that Jason Robertson had interfered with David Rittich, so a rule that Roy has often derided \u2014 including on this very trip \u2014 finally interceded on his behalf.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I bumped him a little bit, [but] I felt like he was already in on the goalie before we made a little bit of contact,\u201d Ryan Pulock, who was tied up with Robertson in front of the net, told The Post. \u201cObviously he took the goalie right out.\u201d<\/p>\n
David Rittich makes a save during the Islanders\u2019 road win over the Stars. AP<\/p>\n
Once you got past a hectic final minute, the rest of the game marked a feather in the Islanders\u2019 cap.<\/p>\n
Early in the night, they managed the puck poorly, played far too much east\/west and couldn\u2019t seem to get through the neutral zone. As it went on, they solved the problem in real time, then gutted out a trio of penalty kills for good measure.<\/p>\n
You could see in Cal Ritchie\u2019s opening goal \u2014 No. 64\u2019s first as an Islander, a one-timer from the low slot off Anthony Duclair\u2019s feed \u2014 the Islanders beginning to work through their issues. So too in their response to Robertson\u2019s 1-1 goal, which came on a three-on-one rush that followed a Tony DeAngelo turnover a few minutes later.<\/p>\n
Calum Ritchie celebrates after scoring a second-period goal during the Islanders\u2019 road win over the Stars. AP<\/p>\n
By the third period, when the game\u2019s decisive notes were played, they were in the dogfight fully \u2014 and there would have been no winning this otherwise.<\/p>\n
Just 3:12 into the final period, Horvat got the greasy goal the Islanders needed, cleaning up the garbage on Kyle Palmieri\u2019s rebound.<\/p>\n
Horvat appeared to give the Stars a window back into the game when he caught Oskar B\u00e4ck with a high stick a few minutes later, and earned a 10-minute misconduct along with the double minor penalty. But instead, the Stars imploded.<\/p>\n
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Palmieri made it 3-1 on a short-handed rush on what was the league-leading fifth short-handed Islanders goal of the season. <\/p>\n
Jamie Benn wiped out two of the four minutes with a high stick of his own, and the Islanders dutifully killed off the rest of the penalty.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel our guys are playing solid hockey right now,\u201d Roy said. \u201c\u2026 I thought it was a hard-fought game. We played well enough to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robertson scored to pull the Stars within one with 1:59 to go. Had he been in just a slightly different position 1:58.59 later, the night may have ended very differently indeed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 If not for what looked like a serious injury to Alexander Romanov in the final minute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[75617,4825,156570,394,385,99],"class_list":["post-301024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-bo-horvat","tag-dallas-stars","tag-kyle-palmieri","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}