In Elmont, Lucas Raymond scored with 85 seconds gone in extra time on Monday night to give the Detroit Red Wings a 4-3 win over the Islanders.
Ville Husso made 35 saves in the Detroit win.
“It tells us about a lot. Never give up, you know, that quiet confidence,” Husso said. “Whatever comes, we’ll go through. Really a big win for us.”
The Islanders had a 2-0 lead in the game when Casey Cizikas scored at at 18:39 of the opening frame for a 1-0 lead.
“We got to keep trying and pushing and playing the right way. I thought for the most part tonight we did,” Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde said. “And that was not the case in the previous two outings. I thought we got what we deserved tonight.”
The score stayed that way until Noah Dobson hit for a goal at 1:05 of the third.
Detroit trimmed the deficit to 2-1 when Daniel Sprong scored at 7:55.
The Red Wings then scored twice to take a 3-2 lead.
Jake Walman scored midway through the third to make it a one-goal game at 3-2.
“Message was still the same,” Walman said. “We never got down on each other, and we just knew we were playing a good game and eventually it would go in.
“So that’s what we did. We kept hounding at it and it worked out.”
J.T. Compher scored at 11:43, to give the Red Wings a 3-2 lead.
“When you have a 2-0 lead, there’s a certain way, and there’s a certain way our team has to play in order to have success,” Islanders coach Lane Lambert said. “We got to keep pushing the puck north, and when we get away from that and deviate from that, it’s not a recipe for success for us, and that’s what happened.”
Bo Horvat then forced the extra session when he tied the game, 3-3, at 15:49 off the power play.
Ilya Sorokin made 33 saves in the loss.
“We can’t give up three unanswered there in the third,” Dobson said. “We battled hard at the end there on the power play to get a point at least, but not good enough in the third, that’s for sure.”
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