Islanders run Wild out of NY
John Tavares had two goals and an assist, Johnny Boychuk scored for the second straight game and the Islanders beat the Minnesota Wild, 6-3, last night in New York.
Calvin de Haan, Alan Quine and Thomas Hickey also scored to help New York get its highest scoring total of the year and win for the third time in four home games after opening with two road losses. Thomas Greiss stopped 26 shots for his first win in two starts this season.
Islanders rookie Anthony Beauvillier had two assists, giving the 19-yearold at least a point in three straight games.
Zach Parise scored twice for Minnesota to top 300 goals for his career, and Nino Niederreiter also scored. Backup goalie Darcy Kuemper made 27 saves.
Trailing 1-0 early in the second period, the Islanders took the lead with two goals 34 seconds apart.
First, Josh Bailey skated up the left side and passed into the slot to Tavares, who fired it in for his second of the season at 4:23. Then, de Haan fired a wrist shot from beyond the left faceoff circle past Kuemper for his first of the season.
Boychuk made it 3-1 at 7:31 when he fired a slap shot from the right point past Kuemper’s glove side.
After getting denied in close by Greiss twice earlier in the period, Parise pulled the Wild within one with 7:23 left. Greiss appeared to stop a slow puck before it crossed the line, but a video review showed the puck was across just before the goalie knocked it away with his right pad.
The Islanders put the game away in the third. Beauvillier brought the puck down the left side, slowed for the play to develop and dropped it to Quine, who fired a shot past Kuemper at 6:29 to restore New York’s two-goal lead. Hickey pushed the lead to 5-2 just over two minutes later.
Niederreiter pulled the Wild within two with 2:48 left for his seventh point (four goals, three assists) in seven games against his former team.
Tavares added an emptynetter with 1:43 left to cap the scoring.
Rangers 3, Coyotes 2 — Dan Girardi scored 1:55 into the third period and host New York edged Arizona.
Josh Jooris and J.T. Miller also scored for the Rangers, who have won consecutive games to improve to 4-2-0. Henrik Lundqvist made 27 stops.
Radim Vrbata had both of Arizona’s goals, and Louis Domingue made 23 saves. The Coyotes have lost their first four games on a six-game trip.
The Rangers’ Chris Kreider missed the game with neck spasms.
Oilers 3, Jets 0 — Cam Talbot made 31 saves and Mark Letestu scored the first of three second-period goals, helping Edmonton to the shutout in Winnipeg in an outdoor Heritage Classic game delayed almost two hours by sunlight melting the ice.
The Oilers made it three wins in a row. Zack Kassian and Darnell Nurse also scored.
Ducks 4, Canucks 2 — Nick Ritchie scored the goahead goal with 8:36 to play, Ryan Getzlaf had three assists and Anaheim finally opened its home schedule with the win against visiting Vancouver.
Andrew Cogliano, Cam Fowler and Corey Perry also scored for the Ducks. John Gibson made 17 saves.