The New York Islanders took their familiar two-goal lead into the third period and {{{record scratch}}}...they won the game! In regulation! They even added to the lead rather than reducing it!
Yes, Ilya Sorokin got a 28-save shutout — his first of the season — Simon Holmstrom scored two goals to make it four goals on the weekend, and the Isles showed determination rather than wilting as they beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-0 at Belmont.
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J-G Pageau remained out with whatever injury kept him from Friday’s game with the Capitals, and Patrick Roy decided to with 11 forwards: Pierre Engvall was a healthy scratch, with Patrick Roy saying it was a message because Engvall is playing too much on the “outside” — and he can’t stay there because that’s Oliver Wahlstrom’s office.