Devils Fall To Capitals
The Devils and others in the East have learned their mistakes can prove costly against Washington, especially when Ovechkin and Kuznetsov are rolling like this.
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The Devils and others in the East have learned their mistakes can prove costly against Washington, especially when Ovechkin and Kuznetsov are rolling like this.
The Devils have won four of five games.
Ilya Sorokin stole one for the Islanders.
The Rangers won for the fourth time in six games (4-1-1) by beating the Sabres for the 10th time in the last 13 meetings.
The Devils won for the third time in four games. They won for the second time in three games against Pittsburgh since Sunday's game was the third consecutive meeting between the teams.
New York has won three of four against East Division-leading Washington this season.
The Islanders won for the 12th time in their last 15 (12-2-1) and improved to 13-1-2 at home.
The Devils failed to score on all four of their power plays, including two in the third period.
New York's only goal came on the power play when Artemi Panarin scored his eighth of the season.
The Devils collected their second straight win at home following a losing streak of 11 games (0-10-1) in Newark.
The loss was the second straight for the Islanders, who were coming off a 3-1 road defeat to the Washington Capitals on Tuesday to snap a nine-game winning streak.
Zibanejad scored three consecutive goals in a 10:10 span of the second for his fifth career hat trick. The Swedish center also topped 400 career points.
Miles Wood scored the tiebreaking goal on a power play early in the third period and the New Jersey Devils beat the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night in a matchup of skidding teams.
Washington snapped New York's winning streak at nine and point streak at 12.
Jakub Voracek scored on a breakaway at 3:47 of overtime to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 5-4 win over the New York Rangers on Monday night.
New York extended its point streak to 11-0-1 and now leads the NHL with 42 points.
The winning streak is the longest for the Islanders since they won 10 in a row last season. The team record is 15 in early 1982.
The New York Rangers beat the Boston Bruins on Saturday to halt a three-game losing streak.
The first-place Islanders are 12-0-2 at the arena this year, and this win came with 1,000 frontline workers in the stands.
Georgiev stopped 10 of the 14 shots he saw before he was pulled five minutes into the second period after allowing back-to-back goals 1:21 apart to Krejci and DeBrusk.
The Islanders will host 1,000 front-line workers from Northwell Health at tonight's game against the New Jersey Devils.
The Islanders are 8-0-1 in their last nine for their longest point streak since a franchise-record 17-game stretch early last season.
The Devils, who lost eight of their previous 10 games, tilted the ice and outshot the Capitals 16-5 in the third.
Keith Kinkaid made 23 stops while withstanding an early barrage but couldn't prevent the Rangers from dropping their second straight.
Sidney Crosby capped Pittsburgh's three-goal outburst in the first period, and the Penguins beat the New York Rangers 5-1 Sunday night.
