Isles extend home streak to
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Kyle Palmieri scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period, and the Devils held on for a 2-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday night, ending a seven-game losing streak.
Jesper Boqvist also scored, and Michael McLeod and Miles Wood each had two assists to help the Devils get their first win this month. Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 31 shots.
Alex Goligoski scored for Arizona, which has lost five of its last seven home games but remains in sole possession of first place in the Pacific Division. Vinnie Hinostroza picked up his fourth assist in two games, and Darcy Kuemper finished with 31 saves.
UNIONDALE — Even though it took a few extra minutes on Saturday, the Islanders earned yet another victory at home.
Anthony Beauvillier scored in overtime to lift the Islanders to a 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres, extending New York’s home winning streak to six games and snapping the Sabres’ win streak at three.
Beauvillier scored on a breakaway at 3:04 against Sabres goalie Linus Ullmark for his 10th goal of the season. He finished off a sequence in overtime in which he accidentally got tangled up with Ullmark in the crease, then was tripped in the Sabres zone before he corralled the puck for the winning play.
“I put my head down, put a shot on goal and it went in,” he said of his extra- session score. “I found some legs on the way to the breakaway. I’ll take it.”
The Islanders improved to 13-2-1 overall between Nassau Coliseum and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center this season.
“We got the win, the two points,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz said. “That was paramount.” Semyon Varmalov made 33 saves for the victory to improve to 11-3-2 on the season, his first with the Islanders.
“Varly was solid,” Trotz added. “When he had to make a save, he did.”
Jordan Eberle had snapped a 1-1 tie with a goal early in the third period to give the Islanders a 2-1 lead, but Sabres captain Jack Eichel tied it with a powerplay goal at 18:14 after the Sabres pulled Ullmark for an extra skater while Islanders forward Mathew Barzal served a