Travis Mitchell slung a wrist shot from the left side boards that snuck inside the near post to give the Islanders a 1-0 lead with 9:28 remaining in the first period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just 1:07 later, Matthew Highmore collected the puck behind the net and wrapped it around on the backhand, before tucking it across the goal line to extend the Bridgeport lead to 2-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Callahan\u00a0fired a wrist shot from the point that\u00a0Joey Abate\u00a0redirected from the slot inside the right post to cut the Islanders\u2019 lead to 2-1 with 4:45 to play in the first frame.\u00a0Jake Schmaltz\u00a0received a secondary assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Poitras collected a turnover in the slot and slid the puck over to Merkulov at the left post, where he patiently flipped it past the diving goaltender to tie the game at 2-2 with 1:21 left in the first period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nearing the end of the power play,\u00a0Patrick Brown\u00a0slid the puck across the ice to Tufte at the bottom of the right circle, where he hammered a one-timer into the open side of the net to give the P-Bruins a 3-2 lead with 6:13 remaining in the second period. Wolanin was credited with a secondary assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the rush, Tufte skated the puck into the right circle and attempted to slide it across the crease, where it deflected off a diving defender and across the goal line to extend the Providence lead to 4-2 just 57 seconds after his previous tally. Poitras received an assist.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tufte dished the puck to Hagens at the bottom of the right circle, where he hammered a one-timer inside the near post for a power play goal to give the P-Bruins a 5-2 lead with 11:34 to play in the third frame. Wolanin was credited with a secondary assist.<\/p>\n
Cole Eiserman cut down the slot and redirected a feed from Matt Luff inside the left post for a power play goal to cut the Providence lead to 5-3 with 7:07 left in the third period.<\/p>\n
Poitras fired a cross-crease pass to Tufte cutting towards the crease, where he redirected it into the net for his third goal of the game to give the P-Bruins a 6-3 lead with 5:16 remaining in the third period. Merkulov received a secondary assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cole McWard\u2019s slap shot from the point found the back of the net to shrink the Providence lead to 6-4 with 2:53 to play in the third frame.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Mitchell slung a wrist shot from the left side boards that snuck inside the near post to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-552158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552158","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=552158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}