Isles fall in 1st game with fans

Oskar Lindblom scored his second goal of the game with 2:22 left, Carter Hart made 22 saves and the Flyers recovered after blowing a late, three-goal lead to beat the Islanders 4-3 on Thursday night at Nassau Coliseum.

Lindblom’s shot from between the circles beat goalie Semyon Varlamov for this fourth goal this season. Travis Konecny assisted, his third of the contest, and the Flyers won in regulation for only the second time in their last 10 games.

The Islanders rallied in the third period after their offense had been silent through the first two periods. Michael Dal Colle, Sebastian Aho and Oliver Wahlstrom scored in a span of under seven minutes to ignite the home crowd, which consisted of season-ticket holders for the first time in more than a year. The goals by Aho and Wahlstrom came 34 seconds apart.

“They had a good push. When a team is down, they are going to be aggressive,” Claude Giroux said of the Islanders’ late surge. “We just kept playing. We kept fighting. That was a big goal by Oskar right there.”

The loss was the second straight for the Islanders, who were coming off a 3-1 road defeat against the Capitals on Tuesday to snap a nine-game winning streak. It was also the first regulation loss at home for the Islanders, who are 12-1-2 at Nassau Coliseum.

The defeat left Islanders coach Barry Trotz miffed. It came a day after the team said their captain Anders Lee would be out for the season with a knee injury.

“We didn’t execute, didn’t win many battles,’‘ Trotz said. ”In the first period we looked flat, which is surprising. We knew Philly would be determined. They wanted it more than we did . ... I’m disappointed in our thought process and how we played that game.”

Giroux and Jakub Voracek also scored as Philadelphia beat the Islanders for the third straight time this season.

The teams will meet again Saturday at the Coliseum and Monday in Philadelphia.

The Flyers scored three times in the second period to enter the third with a commanding lead. On Wednesday, the Flyers were trounced 9-0 by the Rangers at Madison Square Garden — the most lopsided road shutout loss in franchise history.