1+ hour, 44+ min ago (392+ words) ELMONT, NY "Home cooking clearly is not agreeing with the New York Islanders, who lost for the fourth time in five games amid this seven-game homestand with a 4-1 result against the Washington Capitals on Sunday afternoon at UBS Arena. Tom Wilson scored twice and added an assist for the visitors, while the Islanders (13-10-3, 29 points) were stymied by Capitals goalie Logan Thompson, who made 30 saves. New York has scored just five goals in their last five games, and three of them came in Friday's 4-3 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. Ilya Sorokin, who gave Wilson his second goal on a silver platter thanks to an errant pass in the second period, stopped 14 Capitals shots. His giveaway proved to be the difference, as Bo Horvat finally broke through Thompson with 6:17 remaining in regulation. Aliaksei Protas and Alex Ovechkin added empty-netters inside the…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago (307+ words) ELMONT, NY "New York Islanders head coach Patrick Roy has the non-envious role of trying to fill out his team's lineup after top-six forward Kyle Palmieri went down with a season-ending torn ACL in Friday's loss to the Philadelphia Flyers at UBS Arena. The veteran winger got tangled up with Flyers forward Jamie Drysdale roughly four and a half minutes into the second period before awkwardly falling on his left leg. He needs surgery on the ACL, which will sideline him for the next six to eight months. It is the second prominent injury that the Islanders have suffered in as many weeks. One of their top defensemen, Alex Romanov, is out five to six months after suffering a shoulder injury that requires surgery after he was slammed into the boards on a brutal hit from behind by Dallas Stars…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago (687+ words) NEW YORK " An extended Tampa Bay Lightning offensive zone shift in the third period induced frustration from the Garden faithful. The New York Rangers trailed by two goals with 10 minutes remaining in a game they were never really in. When the final buzzer sounded on the 4-1 home loss, they trailed 35-13 in shots. Captain J.T. Miller was rightfully disappointed. Coach Mike Sullivan understandably expected more from his group, who entered Saturday on a three-game winning streak after beating the playoff-caliber Hurricanes and Bruins on the road. "Starts with me," Miller said. "Gotta be better and lead better, and just can't have this anymore." The loss was New York's 27th game of the season, which is tied for the league lead just after Thanksgiving. This week showed who the Rangers are: offensively potent, yet maddeningly inconsistent. The Rangers showcased several encouraging trends in the…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago (262+ words) ELMONT, NY "The Islanders" power play has not been in a giving mood for quite some time, and it devoured any hopes of a win on Thanksgiving Eve against the Boston Bruins. New York"s man-advantage unit went 0-for-4 with four shots in Wednesday night"s 3-1 loss, its second in three games since returning home from a seven-game road trip. Trailing 2-1 midway through the third period and receiving one more opportunity to find an equalizer through special teams, Islanders" rookie Matthew Schaefer"s errant pass was taken the other way on a 2-on-1 rush before Alex Steeves one-timed his second goal of the night past Ilya Sorokin at the 10:21 mark for a backbreaking shorthanded goal. The Islanders (13-9-2, 28 points) are 0-for-their-last-27 on the power play in their last eight games, dating back to Nov. 13 against the Vegas Golden Knights. With it,…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago (579+ words) EAST MEADOW, NY "There had to have been some anxious moments for New York Islanders head coach Patrick Roy regarding his job security over the summer. Long-time president of hockey operations and general manager Lou Lamoriello was finally shown the door, and Julian BriesBois's protege with the Tampa Bay Lightning, Mathieu Darche, was on his way to take over as GM. Most circumstances involve a new GM replacing the old leadership regime to hire their preferred head coach. But any thought of that went out the window on Darche's "first day," as Roy described it. "We just had an honest conversation," New York's head coach said on Wednesday. "We talked about what we thought went well, what went wrong [last year]. And after that, I thought it clicked. I think you know those things. It's gotta be a good fit…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago (189+ words) Red Bull New York announced a flurry of year-end roster decisions on Wednesday, which included picking up the contract options of midfielder Peter Stroud and veteran defender Sean Nealis. Nealis had been the team's captain until the arrival of Emil Forsberg two years ago while the young Stroud made a significant recovery from a displaced ankle injury earlier in the year. Already having announced the departure of long-time goalkeeper Carlos Coronel, New York is parting ways with Jamaican international defender Kyle Duncan, who had spent nearly a decade with the club, and Curtis Ofori." Goalkeeper AJ Marcucci, who is recovering from a gruesome knee injury in August, and veteran defender Tim Parker are still in conversations to remain at the club. "We want to thank the players who will not be returning next season for their hard work and commitment…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago (800+ words) NEW YORK " The New York Rangers and the St. Louis Blues entered the third period tied at one. This was a similar position to what New York had found itself in during the final two games of its Western road trip in Denver and Salt Lake City. Both those games, of course, the Rangers lost. On Monday night at Madison Square Garden, they held off the Blue just enough to secure their second home win of the season. "That was a tough road trip for us," said Rangers defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov. "We had to bounce back, as we did. Especially at home, too." The Rangers made it complicated. They surrendered a late goal to Blues left wing Brayden Schenn with 1:15 to play, turning a comfortable 3-1 lead into a slight 3-2 edge. They took two high-sticking penalties in the final six minutes. But…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago (482+ words) ELMONT, NY "New York Islanders captain Anders Lee and Bo Horvat described backup goaltender David Rittich with identical terms. "He's a gamer," they each told amNewYork following the Islanders' 1-0 shootout victory over the Seattle Kraken on Sunday night at UBS Arena. Rittich made 19 saves across 65 minutes of open play before stopping three of the Kraken's four shootout attempts, which kept New York in it long enough for Horvat and Palmieri to score on successive attempts and earn the hosts a second point on the back end of their home back-to-back. "Any time he's been in the net, we just feel confident in front of him," Horvat said. "We're confident he's going to make that stop. He comes to play every game, he makes big saves at big times, and he knows that we're lucky to have him." The 33-year-old netminder…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago (410+ words) ELMONT, NY " New York Islanders defenseman Alex Romanov needs surgery on his right shoulder and will miss five to six months, the team confirmed on Sunday before their tilt against the Seattle Kraken at UBS Arena. Romanov suffered the injury in the final minute of Tuesday's 3-2 victory over the Dallas Stars when he was dangerously hit into the boards from behind by forward Mikko Rantanen." "He's not happy," head coach Patrick Roy said of Romanov. "We didn't have the same opinion as the league [on how they viewed the hit] when that happened. But we have to move on. You don't replace a player like him. You hope the guys coming in will fit in." While Rantanen escaped any punishment from player safety, he was suspended for one game after another vicious boarding penalty on Calgary Flames forward Matt Coronato…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago (387+ words) ELMONT, NY "The New York Islanders have done something they haven't done in over a calendar year: Win a game in a shootout. Facing a second straight loss after Freddy Gaudreau of the Seattle Kraken snuck the opener past Islanders netminder David Rittich, the red-hot Bo Horvat converted what would have been his side's final chance with a quick wrister that beat netminder Joey Daccord. Kyle Palmieri snapped the winner in the next round, lifting the Islanders to a 1-0 victory on Sunday night at UBS Arena. "It was nice to see Bo score that one because no one wanted to go back in the dressing room with a loss, even in a shootout," head coach Patrick Roy said. "Then [Palmieri] finished the deal right after that. There was a lot of pressure on Bo. But right now, he's responding to…...