ANAHEIM, Calif. — Casey Cizikas had a aim and an help, Ilya Sorokin made 34 saves for his fifth shutout of the season and the New York Islanders defeated the Anaheim Geese 4-0 on Sunday evening.
Noah Dobson, Andy Greene and Kieffer Bellows additionally scored for the Islanders, who bounced again from a dispiriting 5-2 loss on the Los Angeles Kings an evening earlier.
“Let’s simply play the sport,” coach Barry Trotz mentioned. “Typically we attempt to drive issues that aren’t there, attempt to do an excessive amount of, so let’s simply play the sport tonight.”
Islanders middle Mathew Barzal and defenseman Zdeno Chara didn't play after sustaining accidents towards the Kings on Saturday. Barzal, who has a lower-body damage, and Chara, who has an upper-body damage, are each day-to-day, Trotz mentioned earlier than the sport.
Anthony Stolarz allowed 4 objectives on 22 photographs for the Geese, who had been held scoreless for the fourth time.
“We’re not sneaking up on anyone anymore,” Anaheim coach Dallas Eakins mentioned. “They firmly know the place our offense lies. It lies with a handful of men.”
The Islanders led after the primary interval for the third time in 12 video games in February, however they had been in peril of getting off to a different poor begin when Max Comtois got here charging in for a tip on web 1:52 into the sport, solely to have Sorokin slide throughout his crease to make the save.
“That was key to getting off to a very good begin and getting the lead, and it simply continued on from there,” Cizikas mentioned, “’Soro’ made some large saves once we wanted him to … That they had a pair Grade A’s and he got here up huge.”
Dobson put New York up 1-0 with 6:19 left within the first as his slap shot from the fitting level by means of site visitors went in after deflecting off Anaheim defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk. The third-year defenseman has discovered his offensive contact of late with three objectives and 5 assists in his previous eight video games.
Cizikas made it 2-0 simply 1:33 into the second, burying Ross Johnston’s move on an odd-man rush because the Geese had been going through a delayed penalty for too many males on the ice following a sloppy line change.
Greene prolonged the result in 3-0 with 8:17 left within the third. He scored on a wrist shot from the left circle, arrange by Johnston, who had two assists for the primary time.
Bellows scored on a breakaway with 4:56 remaining.
“We needed to go on the market and we needed to compete as a crew, and I assumed we did that tonight,” Cizikas mentioned. “We had all traces rolling.”
Anaheim has misplaced in regulation in 5 of its final seven video games, blunting its stunning push to achieve the playoffs for the primary time in 4 seasons. The Geese are two factors behind Dallas for the second wild card within the Western Convention and path Vegas by three factors for third within the Pacific Division.
“We needed to return out immediately and sort of get our mojo again on residence ice, and it's a must to give credit score to them and their goaltender,” Anaheim defenseman Cam Fowler mentioned. “They discovered a approach to get it completed, however I don’t assume frustration goes to do us a complete lot of excellent proper now. We've got to proceed to face by each other and there’s nonetheless loads of hockey left this season, so now we have to be sure that we are available in and put the work in to show this round.”
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