Islanders' Zdeno Chara breaks NHL record
The seven-time All-Star was on the ice Thursday for his 1,652nd regular-season game.
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The seven-time All-Star was on the ice Thursday for his 1,652nd regular-season game.
The Islanders' Zdeno Chara played in his 1,652nd career game, breaking an NHL record.
The Rangers have won eight of their last 11 overall (8-2-1) and nine of 12 (9-1-2) at home.
The Devils won for just the third time in their last 12 games.
New York won for just the second time in the last six games.
Igor Shesterkin stopped 29 shots, Ryan Strome and Artemi Panarin scored in New York's 2-1 win on Sunday.
Andrew Hammond made 30 saves and stopped two of three shootout attempts, leading Montreal to a 3-2 victory.
The Islanders kicked off a two-game homestand with a victory after a disappointing four-game road trip (1-3-0).
The Rangers are 16-4-3 at home and had their three-game winning streak halted.
Brian Boyle scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, Tristan Jarry made 28 saves and the Pittsburgh Penguins kept rolling with a 4-2 win over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau had a goal and an assist, and Noah Dobson also scored for the Islanders. But the Flames earned their sixth straight win, defeating New York 5-2 on Saturday night.
Anthony Beauvillier had a goal for the Islanders, who have lost four of six. Ilya Sorokin finished with 33 saves.
New Jersey, playing its third game in four nights, won back-to-back road games for the first time this season after beating Montreal on Tuesday.
Anders Lee and Casey Cizikas each had a goal and an assist, and the New York Islanders beat the Vancouver Canucks 6-3 Wednesday night.
The Devils (16-26-5) were looking to redeem themselves after dropping the first of back-to-back games, 4-1 to the Ottawa Senators.
Nick Paul and Connor Brown each had a goal and an assist, Matt Murray stopped 32 shots, and the Ottawa Senators beat the New Jersey Devils 4-1 Monday night.
New Jersey's Jack Hughes, at 20 the youngest All-Star, also scored three goals for the Metropolitan team in the All-Star extravaganza's first trip to Las Vegas.
Semyon Varlamov had 28 saves and lost his third straight start for New York, falling to 3-9-1 this season.
Artemi Panarin had a goal and two assists, Mika Zibanejad had a goal and an assist, and Alexis Lafrenière also scored for the Rangers.
Anthony Beauvillier and Adam Pelech also had goals for New York, which snapped a two-game losing streak.
After blowing an early three-goal lead and collapsing in the third period at Toronto on Monday, New Jersey carried that 6-4 loss into the game less than 24 hours later.
Auston Matthews had three goals and an assist, and the Toronto Maple Leafs scored four times in the third period to rally to a 6-4 win over the Devils on Monday night.
Kirill Kaprizov, Joel Eriksson Ek and Matt Boldy each had a goal and an assist, and the Minnesota Wild beat the New York Islanders 4-3 on Sunday night for their fifth straight win.
Mika Zibanejad had a goal and two assists for the Rangers, who improved to 14-4-2 on home ice.
Jesper Boqvist scored for the Devils, who've lost seven of their last eight games. The lone victory in that stretch came last Saturday against Carolina.
