For the third time in three tries on this road trip, the New York Islanders started a game poorly. They recovered once, but they dropped the other two, including tonight’s 4-2 loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
Ilya Sorokin kept them in it through the first period, preventing the score from being 4-0 and holding it to 2-0. Mathew Barzal scored for the fifth game in a row and the deficit was only a goal, but Edmonton pulled away later in the second period.
First Period
The Oilers jumped all over the Islanders to start this game, spending most of the opening minutes hemmed in their own zone until Parker Wotherspoon took a tripping penalty.