Kyle Palmieri scored the go-ahead goal with 6:14 left, helping the New York Islanders defeat the Ottawa Senators 4-2 on Sunday. This win gave the Islanders their second consecutive victory, having also beaten the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 on Saturday.
Anders Lee and Kyle MacLean each scored once in the first period, and Bo Horvat added an empty-net goal with 51 seconds remaining. Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin made 29 saves in the win.
For the Senators, Adam Gaudette scored in the first period and Josh Norris added a goal in the second. Ottawa’s two-game winning streak came to an end, with goalie Anton Forsberg making nine saves.
Gaudette gave the Senators a brief lead 5:37 into the game after finishing an end-to-end rush. Noah Gregor passed the puck to Gaudette, who scored past Sorokin. The Islanders responded with a power-play goal by Lee at 12:27, following a rebound of Noah Dobson’s shot.
MacLean put the Islanders ahead again 2:21 later when Dennis Cholowski passed the puck into the crease, and it deflected off MacLean’s stick past Forsberg.
Norris tied the game 37 seconds into the second period with a power-play goal, assisted by Drake Batherson. Batherson made a no-look pass from the crease to Norris, who scored in the upper-right corner.
A tripping penalty on Norris set up Palmieri’s game-winner. Lee passed the puck from the goal line to Palmieri, who shot from the left faceoff circle, beating Forsberg. Forsberg was pulled from the net with less than three minutes left, but Ottawa couldn’t get a shot on goal before Horvat sealed the win with an empty-net goal.
