Barzal’s big night propels Islanders

NEW YORK — Mathew Barzal had two goals and an assist to help the New York Islanders rally for a 6-3 win over the Ottawa Senators on Friday night.

Josh Bailey had a goal and an assist, and Anders Lee, Johnny Boychuk and Casey Cizikas also scored for New York, which came back from a pair of twogoal deficits to win for the fifth time in six games.

Thomas Greiss gave up three goals on 17 shots before he was pulled 6:11 into the second period. Robin Lehner, who began his career with Ottawa, came on and stopped all 10 shots he faced to improve to 7-0-3 against his former team.

Mark Stone, Matt Duchene and Cody Ceci scored for Ottawa, which has lost six of eight (2-5-1). Mike McKenna finished with 33 saves as the Senators fell to 4-13-1 on the road.

The Islanders trailed 2-0 early in the second and 3-1 later in the middle period. New York then scored the last five goals, including four in the third.

Boychuk tied the score 3-3 at 2:57 of the third as he fired a slap shot from the right point. It was his second of the season, with both goals coming in his last four games.

Barzal, who got his teamleading 25th assist earlier in the game, gave the Islanders their first lead of the night as he got a pass from Leo Komarov and beat McKenna from the right circle at 4:51.

Barzal made it 5-3 after a giveaway by the Senators in the neutral zone, beating McKenna from the inside edge of the right circle for his seventh with 7:36 left.

Cizikas added an emptynetter with 54 seconds left for his career-high 10th.

The game got chippy late with several fights, including pushing and shoving after the final buzzer.