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Islanders snap skid while handing Bruins fifth straight loss

NHL: New York Islanders at Boston BruinsFeb 27, 2025; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York Islanders defenseman Alexander Romanov (28) celebrates his goal with his teammates during the first period against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images

The New York Islanders used goals in each of the first two periods to break a four-game losing streak, beating the host Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday night.

Alexander Romanov and Kyle Palmieri scored New York’s goals. Palmieri’s tally at 4:21 of the second stood as the game-winner.

Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin stood tall all night with 38 saves, including 15 in the first period.

David Pastrnak scored the lone goal and Jeremy Swayman made 18 saves for Boston, which is on a five-game skid (0-3-2).

Pastrnak has points in 16 straight games, marking the longest streak in the NHL this season and tied for the longest all-time by a Czech-born player. The goal was his 800th career point.

Boston led 39-20 in shots on goal, registering double digits in each period.

The Bruins’ 15-6 shot edge over the opening 20 minutes was aided by two power plays, and after coming up empty on both, they surrendered the opening goal at 16:11. Rushing out of the box and down the wing, Romanov took Jean-Gabriel Pageau’s pass and fired a glove-side wrist shot past Swayman on a 2-on-1 rush.

Less than a minute after Sorokin denied Pavel Zacha on a breakaway at the other end of the ice, New York doubled its lead when Palmieri crashed the net and buried the rebound of a Brock Nelson shot from the wing that caromed off Swayman into the middle.

Before going down 2-0, the hosts had a golden chance to trim their deficit as Nikita Zadorov clanked the left post with a wrister just 16 seconds into the middle frame.

Pastrnak broke the shutout with 9:56 left in regulation, though, taking a shot from the right goal line that deflected in off the goaltender.

Swayman kept his team in a 2-1 game after stretching across the crease to pad away a point-blank rebound chance by Hudson Fasching with 7:34 to go.

Sorokin matched him with a pad save on Pastrnak at the doorstep before Swayman was pulled for an extra attacker.

Boston forward Matt Poitras left the game after taking Nelson’s check into the open door of the New York bench late in the second period. Before the start of the third, the team announced that he was unlikely to return due to a lower-body injury.

–Field Level Media

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Kraken hope to finish hat trick this time vs. red-hot Hurricanes

NHL: Vancouver Canucks at Seattle KrakenFeb 28, 2026; Seattle, Washington, USA; Seattle Kraken right wing Jordan Eberle (7) celebrates after scoring a goal during the third period against the Vancouver Canucks at Climate Pledge Arena. Mandatory Credit: Blake Dahlin-Imagn Images

Business is presumably booming at the Seattle Kraken’s souvenir store.

Because a lot of fans are again unnecessarily in need of a new hat entering Monday’s game against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes.

For the second time in five weeks, Kraken fans rained their headwear down on the ice at Climate Pledge Arena thinking one of the home team’s players had netted a hat trick with three goals.

And for the second time, Matty Beniers nixed the party hats.

Back on Jan. 27 against Washington, a delayed penalty against Beniers — called by a linesman, so neither referee hand their arms raised — wiped away a hat trick by Jared McCann.

It happened again Saturday in a 5-1 victory against Vancouver.

Captain Jordan Eberle, who tallied on a breakaway in the second period, appeared to score a power-play goal at 11:56 of the third when he took a pass in the left-wing corner, skated to the front of the net and stuffed the puck past the Canucks’ goaltender and just inside the far post.

When Eberle scored into an empty net with three minutes left, fans littered the ice with their hats.

But they were unaware the official scorer had changed Eberle’s previous goal, which apparently glanced off the toe of Beniers’ skate.

“I think we owe the fans some hats,” said Eberle, who has a team-leading 22 goals this season.

After McCann’s fiasco, the Kraken announced a “Hat Tricked” promo which allowed 1,000 fans who were in attendance to fill out a form to receive a new hat.

There was no immediate word on whether the Kraken would do that again after Saturday’s mishap.

Eberle (two goals, one assist) and Chandler Stephenson (one goal, two assists) both had three-point nights for the Kraken, who snapped a two-game skid. Seattle currently holds the second and final wild-card spot in the Western Conference, three points ahead of the San Jose Sharks, Nashville Predators and Los Angeles Kings.

“I liked our consistency from start to finish,” Kraken coach Lane Lambert said. “It was nice for us putting some pucks on net. We had talked about shot mentality. I still think we can do a better job of that. … If you look at the first two goals, we’ve got traffic (net front), and that’s the way you’re going to have to score down the stretch.”

The Hurricanes, who are riding a five-game winning streak and have points in 12 straight (10-0-2), lead the Metropolitan Division and are first overall in the Eastern Conference with 82 points.

The Hurricanes are opening a four-game trip that will also take them to Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary in a span of six days.

They are coming off a 5-2 victory Saturday against visiting Detroit. Taylor Hall and Shayne Gostisbehere each had a goal and two assists in the win.

“There was a stretch there where we took our foot off the gas and it didn’t look so good, but I thought overall the D played really well,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said.

This will be the second and final regular-season meeting between the teams. Carolina rallied with two goals in the final 10 minutes to win 3-2 on Jan. 10 in Raleigh, N.C., snapping Seattle’s 10-game point streak (8-0-2).

–Field Level Media

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Warriors star Steph Curry out at least 5 more games with knee injury

NBA: Denver Nuggets at Golden State WarriorsFeb 22, 2026; San Francisco, California, USA; Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) cheers from the bench during a game against the Denver Nuggets in the third quarter at Chase Center. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images

The Golden State Warriors on Sunday said Stephen Curry will miss the next five games before his right knee injury is re-evaluated.

Curry, who hasn’t played since Jan. 30, is officially out for Monday’s home game against the Los Angeles Clippers with “right patellofemoral pain syndrome,” also called “runner’s knee.” It’s an overuse condition that is marked by pain around the kneecap.

In addition to the Clippers game, Curry will miss the Warriors’ three-game road trip to Houston, Oklahoma City and Utah and a home game against Chicago on March 10. The soonest he could be back is March 13 against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Warriors have said Curry is making progress but is not doing work on the court yet.

Golden State (31-29) is in eighth place in the Western Conference and just 4-6 in the games Curry has missed before and after the All-Star break. The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Warriors 129-101 on Saturday.

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Anders Lee's game-winner downs Panthers, caps another Islanders comeback

NHL: Florida Panthers at New York IslandersMar 1, 2026; Elmont, New York, USA; New York Islanders left wing Anders Lee (27) controls the puck against the Florida Panthers during the first period at UBS Arena. Mandatory Credit: Dennis Schneidler-Imagn Images

Anders Lee scored the game-winning goal with 30.9 seconds left Sunday night for the surging New York Islanders, who overcame another two-goal deficit to beat the Florida Panthers, 5-4, in Elmont. N.Y.

Lee got a step on Aaron Ekblad, extended his stick to draw out goalie Sergei Bobrovsky and buried a forehand into the wide open left corner of the net.

Rookie Mathew Schafer scored twice while Carson Soucy and Bo Horvat also scored for the Islanders, who have won five straight games. New York has trailed 2-0 in each of its last three victories.

Goalie David Rittich made 29 saves.

Sam Bennett scored twice while Sandis Vilmanis and Sam Reinhart scored one apiece for the Panthers, who have lost seven of nine (2-7-0). Bobrovsky recorded 21 saves.

Vilmanis opened the scoring 3:44 after the opening faceoff, when he gloved a pass from A.J. Greer and backhanded a shot that trickled under Rittich’s legs.

Bennett doubled the lead by scoring six seconds into a power play with 5:06 left, when his shot from the left faceoff circle sailed past Rittich’s glove.

The Islanders began their latest comeback in unusual fashion with 1:59 remaining, when Schaefer’s shot from the right faceoff circle bounced before the crease, caromed over Bobrovsky’s head and glanced off the top post before bouncing off his back and into the net.

Soucy tied the score with a 4-on-4 goal 7:28 into the second. The defenseman took a drop pass from Simon Holmstrom, who was draped by the Panthers’ Gustav Forsling, and sent a shot under Bobrovsky’s glove.

Bennett gave the Panthers the lead again with 7:56 remaining, when his backhander from the middle of the right faceoff circle went under Rittich’s stick arm.

Horvat tied the score with 2:46 left with an angled shot from near the goal line that landed beneath Bobrovsky’s stick.

Schaefer gave the Islanders their first lead by scoring from the slot with 9:31 left in the third. This gave Schaefer 20 on the year at just 18 years old, making him the youngest defenseman to ever record 20 goals in a season and the youngest since Dion Phaneuf (20 years old) did it for the Calgary Flames in 2005-06.

With Bobrovsky pulled for an extra attacker, Reinhart tied it back up with 1:58 remaining.

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