Islanders return to Barclays Center and come up empty
Jacob Trouba and Adam Lowry scored 22 seconds apart early in the third period, rallying the Jets to a 3-1 victory over the Islanders on Tuesday night at Barclays Center.
Anders Lee scored and Thomas Greiss finished with 21 saves for the Islanders, who have lost three of four (1-2-1). They were back at Barclays Center three nights after rallying for a 3-2 win over Columbus in their first regular-season game at Nassau Coliseum in 3¹/₂ years.
Despite the loss, they were pleased with how they played in this one.
“We had some really good opportunities to score and Hellebuyck kept a lot of them out,” Lee said. “Credit to him on those, but for the most part we did play a pretty good game.”
Lee broke the scoreless tie 1:33 into the third period when he knocked down Johnny Boychuk’s shot from the right point and beat Connor Hellebuyck from the left side for his 10th. It gave Lee four goals and six points in the last six games.
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Nikolaj Ehlers added an empty-net goal with 2.1 seconds left and Hellebuyck stopped 27 shots as Winnipeg won for the fifth time in six games.
The Jets have three straight road wins for the first time this season after completing a sweep of their three-game trip to the New York area. Winnipeg beat the Devils 4-3 in overtime on Saturday, then won 4-3 in a shootout against the Rangers on Sunday.
Trouba tied it on the power play with a slap shot straightaway from the blue line for his third at 3:39. Lowry put the Jets ahead as he scored on a rebound of Brandon Tanev’s shot in front for his fifth at 4:01.
After getting the first five shots of the game, the Islanders went nine minutes between Nick Leddy’s slap shot from beyond the left circle at 7:48 and Valtteri Filppula’s attempt from the edge of the left circle with 3:08 remaining.
Winnipeg didn’t get its first shot on goal until Tyler Myers’ try from the right point 9:11 in, but then had nothing after Blake Wheeler’s slap shot from the right circle with 8:01 left in the opening period.