Thursday, November 28

Islanders not able to hold late lead, fall to Bruins, 5-4, in shootout

NEW YORK CITY (AP)– David Pastrnak scored in the 3rd round of a shootout to offer the Boston Bruins a 5-4 success over the New York Islanders on Friday night.

Pastrnak, Morgan Geekie, James van Reimsdyk and Mason Lohrei scored in guideline, with Lohrei connecting it with 3:09 left on a bank shot from behind the objective line. Linus Ullmark made 34 conserves to assist Eastern Conference-leading Boston enhance to 19-5-4.

Brock Nelson, Bo Horvat, Alexander Romanov and Simon Holmstrom scored for New York and Ilya Sorokin made 29 conserves. New york city had actually won 4 in a row.

Following a wide-open overtime session in which the groups traded opportunities, Charlie Coyle and Pastrnak scored in the shootout for Boston, while Holmstrom scored for the Islanders.

Horvat offered the Islanders a 3-2 lead on a power play objective at 5:06 of 3rd that extended his points streak to 9 video games.

It looked like if Brad Marchand connected it with 10:21 staying, however a video evaluation revealed the Boston captain punched the puck past Sorokin while laying susceptible on the ice.

While the objective was prohibited, Marchand drew a tripping charge on New York captain Anders Lee on the play, and van Riemsdyk’s power-play objective connected it with 9:12 left.

Nelson raised a feed from Horvat over Ullmark on a power play with 7:59 to go to put New York ahead 4-3.

UP NEXT

Bruins: Host the New York Rangers on Saturday night.

Islanders: At Montreal on Saturday night.

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