VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Mathew Barzal had a aim and two assists because the New York Islanders beat the struggling Vancouver Canucks 6-2 on Tuesday night time.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored twice — as soon as on an influence play after which shorthanded late into an empty internet. Aatu Raty, Anders Lee, and Casey Cizikas additionally had targets for the Islanders. Barzal has scored in 4 straight video games.
“He’s skating, he’s making the right decision and he’s shooting the puck more,” Pageau stated. “He’s got a great shot. When he’s playing with confidence like that, he’s a player that can make a difference. He’s a key player for us and we’re lucky to have him.”
Ilya Sorokin stopped 24 photographs in his 14th win.
The Canucks obtained a pair of targets from Bo Horvat as they dropped their third recreation in a row. Vancouver’s captain is tied with Alex Ovechkin for third within the NHL with 28 targets.
“We want to make the playoffs and we want to be in contention and obviously I’m trying to do whatever I can to help make that happen,” Horvat stated. “But at the end of the day, it’s not good enough.”
Defensive errors have plagued the Canucks all season, and this marked the sixteenth time in 37 video games that they’ve given up not less than 5 targets.
Spencer Martin made 23 saves for Vancouver.
Boos rained down as the ultimate horn sounded and the Canucks fell to 7-10-1 at house.
“It’s kind of been a similar story for too long now,” defenseman Tyler Myers stated. “We talk about our consistency — we had a really good first period and then we came off the gas a bit to start the second. We’ve got to find a way.”
Cizikas made it 5-2 along with his third aim of the season 9:44 into the third interval, sending a wrist shot over Martin’s glove from the faceoff dot.
Islanders rookie Parker Wotherspoon, who grew up a Canucks fan in British Columbia, assisted on the play for his first NHL level.
New York regained a two-goal cushion 1:46 into the third after Vancouver’s Ethan Bear turned over the puck deep within the Canucks zone.
Brock Nelson picked it up, spun to preserve it on his stick after which despatched it to Lee, who put a wrist shot previous Martin to make it 4-2 along with his 14th aim of the season.
Vancouver lower its deficit to one late within the second with a power-play aim after Matt Martin was referred to as for hooking.
Seconds into the person benefit, J.T. Miller despatched a go to Horvat within the slot and he fired a shot previous Sorokin to make it 3-2 along with his twenty eighth aim.
One other ugly giveaway rapidly become an Islanders aim earlier within the second.
Myers coughed up the puck within the nook and Barzal took benefit, crusing a shot into the highest nook to make it 3-1 on the 16:28 mark.
Barzal has 10 targets this season and 5 in his final 4 video games.
Pageau gave New York the lead with a power-play aim 12:56 into the second after Myers was despatched to the field for slashing.
“It’s like as soon as something bad happens to this team, the adversity, we cannot handle it. And it seems like, ‘Oh, here we go.’ And then that’s it,” Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau stated. “As long as we’ve got the lead, we’re fine. But when we get behind, it’s not a good thing. It just seems like the wind goes out of everybody’s sails.”