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<\/p>\nWINNIPEG, Manitoba \u2014 Put Vezina Trophy candidate Ilya Sorokin in one net and three-time winner, including the last two, Connor Hellebuyck of the Jets in the other and it was no surprise that all involved expected a stingy, low-scoring match on Tuesday night at Canada Life Centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis wasn\u2019t a typical hockey game for either of them,\u201d captain Anders Lee said. \u201cWe put four in tonight and didn\u2019t get a point. There\u2019s a defensive effort that wasn\u2019t good enough. We know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Islanders, who survived a first-period scare when Matthew Schaefer was pulled for concussion protocol before being cleared to return, scored three goals within 3 minutes, 58 seconds in a wild second period to overcome a three-goal deficit. Still, they lost, 5-4.<\/p>\n
Schaefer, who also took defenseman Luke Schenn\u2019s hard blast off his right leg late in the second period and had to hobble to the bench, trimmed it to one goal with 45.1 seconds left in regulation. But the rookie defenseman needed to be examined by the team\u2019s medical staff after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was fine,\u201d coach Patrick Roy said. \u201cI think he just lost his wind on that [second-period] play. And I guess they thought it was incidental contact with [defenseman Josh] Morrissey to the head and I think that\u2019s the protocol from the league. But he was 100% fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sorokin, allowing more than four goals for the first time this season, made 17 saves as the Islanders (25-16-5) are now 1-1-1 on this seven-game road trip. Hellebuyck stopped 23 shots for the Jets (18-22-5), who have won three straight.<\/p>\n
Beyond the surprising nine combined goals, the Islanders struggled against Mark Scheifele\u2019s top line with Kyle Connor and Alex Iafallo and Jonathan Toews\u2019 second line with Cole Perfetti and Gabriel Vilardi. The Jets were also the more physical team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a little more back and forth than probably both teams expected,\u201d Kyle MacLean said. \u201cThere\u2019s chances both ways. Three goals there quick in the second period. Unfortunately, we couldn\u2019t claw back. A couple of times our clears bit us a little bit, getting the puck past that blue line and getting it out, especially at the end of our shifts. A couple of breakdowns, a couple of shots from the point that got through.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morrissey made it 2-0 with a shot from the high slot through traffic at 5:41 of the second period and Toews then banged in the puck at the post for a power-play goal at 6:23.<\/p>\n
Anthony Duclair started the Islanders\u2019 rally by squeezing the puck through Hellebuyck\u2019s pads at 7:40 and Emil Heineman converted his penalty shot by going forehand to backhand and lifting the puck at 8:58 after being hooked on a breakaway by Schenn.<\/p>\n
\u201cI figured I\u2019ve had mostly the same move before, so I wanted to try something new since I haven\u2019t scored on the last two \\[shootout attempts\\],\u201d Heineman said. \u201cI was happy when it went in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle MacLean got to the crease for a dirty goal to tie it at 10:21.<\/p>\n
But defenseman Dylan DeMelo regained a 4-3 lead for the Jets at 12:23 on a shot from the high slot that withstood Roy\u2019s challenge of goalie interference on Nino Niederreiter.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I go with Rule 69.3, both feet were in the crease and Ilya cannot move up,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n
Nick Lowry then tipped defenseman Neal Pionk\u2019s shot for a two-goal edge with 19.6 seconds remaining in the second\u00a0period.<\/p>\n
Schaefer exited for the Islanders\u2019 room at 4:20 of the first period as Connor tapped in the rebound of Iafallo\u2019s shot for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Schaefer initially retreated to the bench, where he sat hunched over as the training staff spoke to him, before heading down the team’s tunnel. He returned to the bench at 16:11 as Morrissey made the classy move of skating over to check if Schaefer was OK.<\/p>\n
Schaefer\u00a0still logged 22:39.<\/p>\n
\u201cReal deal,\u201d Jets coach Scott Arniel said of the 18-year-old Schaefer. \u201cTeams are trying to knock him off his game by being physical against him and nothing seems to faze him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notes & quotes: Defenseman Ryan Pulock\u2019s assist on Duclair\u2019s goal gave him 180 for his career, tying him with Noah Dobson for fifth among Islanders defensemen … Lee and Heineman each took a game-high six shots.<\/p>\n
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\n\tAndrew Gross joined Newsday in 2018 to cover the Islanders. He began reporting on the NHL in 2003 and has previously covered the Rangers and Devils. Other assignments have included the Jets, St. John\u2019s and MLB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG, Manitoba \u2014 Put Vezina Trophy candidate Ilya Sorokin in one net and three-time winner, including the last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[19698,5,78,159,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-406843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-gamer","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-winnipeg","14":"tag-winnipeg-jets","15":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115892528764116029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}