Lucas Raymond scored with 51.1 seconds remaining as the Detroit Red Wings snapped a three-game losing streak with a 2-1 win over the visiting New York Islanders on Thursday night.
Raymond took a pass from Dylan Larkin and scored from the left circle for his third goal this season. Jonatan Berggren scored the Red Wings’ first goal with 4:46 left, while Alex Lyon made 22 saves.
Simon Holmstrom scored the Islanders’ goal. Ilya Sorokin made 29 saves for New York, which finished 1-2-2 on its five-game road trip.
The Red Wings had an 11-9 advantage in shots on goal during the first period but the Islanders emerged with a 1-0 lead.
After the Red Wings squandered an early power-play opportunity, the Islanders scored less than six minutes into the contest. Scott Mayfield took a shot from the right point that Holmstrom redirected from the slot past Lyon. It was Holmstrom’s third goal this season.
Sorokin made a nifty pad save against Alex DeBrincat midway through the period.
The Islanders came into the game ranked 31st on the penalty kill but the Red Wings came up empty twice more in the second period. Alexander Romanov, playing in his 300th career game, was whistled for a delay of game infraction and Pierre Engvall committed a slashing penalty. During Detroit’s third power play of the contest, its second-ranked power-play unit had trouble just keeping the puck in New York’s zone.
The Islanders had their first power-play opportunity early in the third when Christian Fischer was penalized for tripping. They were unable to produce a quality chance during that span.
Detroit finally broke through with 4:46 remaining as Berggren skated into the Islanders’ zone on a 2-on-1 situation and fired the puck past Sorokin.
Berggren’s goal beat Sorokin on the stick side and was his third of the season. J.T. Compher picked up an assist.
Detroit won the first game of the season series last month, 1-0, on a Patrick Kane goal. They’ll square off again on the Islanders’ home ice on Monday.
–Field Level Media
