Barzal shootout goal lifts Isles

UNIONDALE, N. Y. — Mathew Barzal scored in the shootout and the New York Islanders beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3- 2 on Saturday night, extending their dominant play at home.

Barzal scored in the fourth round of the shootout after Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin denied Flyers captain Claude Giroux’s chance to win the game. After Barzal scored, Sorokin then stopped Jakub Voracek to seal the win.

Sorokin made 30 saves in 65 minutes of play and improved to 9- 3- 1 on the season.

Anthony Beauvillier scored twice to give the Islanders a 2- 0 lead entering the third period.

Giroux answered with a pair of goals to tie the score. Flyers netminder Carter Hart made 22 saves.

The Islanders continued their strong play at Nassau Coliseum, where they are 15- 1- 2 this season. They also kept pace with the Washington Capitals in the race for first place in the East Division with 52 points.

SABRES 3, RANGERS 2 ( SO)

BUFFALO, N. Y. — Victor Olofsson tied the game at 16: 19 of the third period and Tage Thompson scored the only goal in a shootout to give Buffalo a comeback victory against New York.

Thompson beat Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin with a low snap shot in the second round of the tiebreaker. Buffalo goalie Linus Ullmark denied Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad and Kaapo Kakko.

Casey Mittelstadt also scored for the Sabres, and Ullmark made 28 saves in improving to 7- 5- 3 this season. Buffalo extended its point streak to four games and is 2- 0- 1 beginning with a victory over Philadelphia that snapped the club’s 0- 15- 3 skid.

Thompson scored the tying goal with 4 seconds left in regulation Thursday night before the Sabres lost to the Rangers 3- 2 in overtime.

BRUINS 7, PENGUINS 5

BOSTON — Brad Marchand had two of his three goals and set up another in Boston’s five- goal second period, and the Boston Bruins rebounded from a lackluster effort with a 7- 5 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday afternoon.

Patrice Bergeron moved into the fourth on the club’s all- time scoring list. David Pastrnak scored twice, David Krejci and Bergeron each had a goal for Boston. Bergeron added an assist, giving him 899 career points to move past Rick Middleton ( 898).

“These are the types of games you have to be able to see through adversity,” Marchand said. “It’s something we have to be able to do every night as a group.”