Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves for his twentieth profession shutout and Brock Nelson had a function and an lend a hand to steer the New York Islanders to a 4-0 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights Thursday evening in Las Vegas.
Anders Lee, Bo Horvat and Casey Cizikas additionally scored objectives and Alexander Romanov had two assists for New York, which gained its 2nd immediately recreation matching a season prime. It used to be Sorokin’s 2nd shutout of the season.
Adin Hill made 17 saves for Vegas, which had a three-game profitable streak snapped. It used to be simply the 5th house lack of the season (17-5-0) for the NHL point-leaders, who had been denied an opportunity to turn into the league’s first staff to hit the 60-point mark. The Golden Knights had been blanked for the 3rd time this season whilst falling to 6-7-1 towards Japanese Convention fighters.
Vegas gave the impression to take a 1-0 lead on the 13:50 mark of the primary duration on a power-play function through Tomas Hertl however the Islanders appropriately challenged that Hertl used to be offside at the play and the function used to be waved off.
Lee then gave the Islanders the lead close to the tip of the duration when he slid a Nelson crossing move from the brink of the best circle thru Hill’s pads for his team-leading nineteenth function and 6th in six video games.
Nelson made it 2-0 on the 5:30 mark of the second one duration when he zipped a wrist shot previous Hill’s glove aspect on the finish of an odd-man rush following a Romanov thieve of a Tanner Pearson move. The rating snapped a 17-game function drought for Nelson courting again to Nov. 27 towards Boston.
Horvat prolonged the Islanders’ result in 3-0 halfway thru the second one duration when he minimize down the slot and drilled a behind-the-net move from Kyle Palmieri previous Hill’s glove aspect for his 3rd function in two video games.
Vegas pulled Hill for an additional attacker with 4:04 ultimate within the recreation and Cizikas sealed the win when he tucked in an empty-netter with 2:34 to move.
–Box Stage Media
