SEATTLE — Zach Parise scored twice and added an help, Brock Nelson scored for the third straight sport, and the Islanders opened their highway journey with a 5-2 win over the Kraken on Tuesday night time.
The Islanders gained for simply the second time within the final six video games, leaping out to an early lead and overwhelming the Kraken, who have been taking part in their third sport in 4 nights. Seattle has misplaced 5 straight.
Parise had his first multigoal sport since Jan. 14, 2020, when he was taking part in for Minnesota towards Pittsburgh.
“His numbers aren’t staggering the final couple of years, however it’s the opposite elements of this sport which are so useful,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz mentioned.
Kyle Palmeri scored his fourth objective in his final 4 video games and Casey Cizikas added his fifth of the season after a rebound off the tip boards because the Islanders constructed a 4-0 lead.
Mathew Barzal was a nuisance all night time and assisted on Parise’s objective late within the first interval. Barzal performed 4 years of junior hockey for the Seattle Thunderbirds, main them to the Western Hockey League championship in his last season.
“It appeared like he was fairly excited to be again right here in Seattle, quite a lot of Thunderbirds jerseys with ‘Barzal’ on it,” Parise mentioned. “He was flying proper from the start.”
Nelson’s objective at 8:53 of the primary interval was his team-best 18th of the season and simply the second time within the final 13 video games the Islanders scored first. Parise’s first objective was initially waived off for goalie interference, however the Islanders challenged the decision and it was overturned on video assessment.
Parise added an empty-net objective with 1:58 left.
Ilya Sorokin, who was positioned on COVID-19 protocols on Feb. 12, returned and made 23 saves and was barely examined for the primary half-hour of the sport. When Cizikas gave the Islanders a 4-0 lead at 10:33 of the second interval, the Kraken had simply six pictures on Sorokin.
“We didn’t have quite a lot of power early, and we would have liked to by some means give ourselves that injection of life with one thing early offensively,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol mentioned. “And we couldn’t discover that.”
In the meantime, Seattle goaltender Philipp Grubauer was peppered with pictures from the beginning and made 31 saves. Grubauer posted the primary shutout in franchise historical past earlier this month in a 3-0 win over the Islanders within the final sport earlier than the All-Star break.
“We weren’t killing performs fast sufficient and it’s powerful to interrupt the puck out when you may’t do this,” Seattle ahead Yanni Gourde mentioned. “As soon as we acquired going and have been higher in construction and acquired the puck within the (offensive) zone, we are able to see how significantly better of a group we're.”
Gourde scored unassisted off a faceoff for Seattle late within the second interval for his eleventh objective of the season and Riley Sheahan scored early within the third interval, due to a clumsy bounce off the tip boards. The Kraken had two nice probabilities from Morgan Geekie and Vince Dunn moments later that have been saved by Sorokin.
“He made a few big saves,” Trotz mentioned.
“It was most likely a troublesome sport for him as a result of he didn’t have quite a lot of work for the primary half-hour, after which the final 20 or so we gave him quite a lot of work.”
Islanders defenseman Zdeno Chara tied the NHL document for many video games performed by a defenseman. Chara appeared in his 1,651st sport, tying him with Chris Chelios for many video games by a defenseman. Chara, who will flip 45 subsequent month, debuted throughout the 1997-98 season with the Islanders. He additionally performed with Ottawa, Washington and spent 14 seasons with Boston.
Chara acquired the help on Parise’s empty-net objective.
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