Doug Weight‘s New York Islanders did it again, this time shutting out the Montreal Canadiens on the road en route to a third straight win.
- New York Islanders 3 (29-21-10)
- Montreal Canadiens 0 (32-21-8)
- NHL, Final, Box Score
- Centre Bell, Montreal, Canada
When your son's dreams are coming true right before your eyes. ? @titobeauvi21 #IslesFamily pic.twitter.com/EWTs1oeIXl
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) February 24, 2017
The game remained 1-0 until Anders Lee scored his 23rd goal of the season in the second period when the Islanders would take a 2-0 lead. On for the assist was Josh Bailey who produced his 30th assist and career-high 42nd point. Bailey is now having a career year with 43 points, and with about 22 games to go in the Islanders season that number will likely keep increasing.
In the third period two goals were overturned on the Canadians side. The first such goal was taken back by a high stick of either Montreal’s Paul Byron or Tomas Plekanec. It took video overturn and several minutes to do so but the call was made and a good one. Another possible goal was blocked later in the third by Griess.
John Tavares sealed the deal with an empty-net goal with 58.8 seconds left in the game. Tavares’ 23rd goal of the season closed a game the Islanders controlled for most of the game. Thomas Greiss stopped all 24 shots he was tasked with on the night. It was his seventh shutout of the season.
With seven games remaining on the long road trip, the Islanders starting the road trip 2-0 should build confidence for the near future. The team already knows that they will wake up today remaining in a playoff spot that they slid into on Thursday. Now the goal will be to stay in it and build a lead. They can best do that by continuing to use their secondary scores and killing penalties like they been during this recent stretch.
Your three ⭐⭐⭐ of the game in Montreal!
? @titobeauvi21
⭐⭐ Thomas Greiss
⭐⭐⭐ @ledpipe08 pic.twitter.com/QRAtjLaXNG— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) February 24, 2017
Scoring in your home province is pretty cool. #NYIvsMTL pic.twitter.com/esBtVIoDEs
— NHL (@NHL) February 24, 2017
The ?? pass from Bails for a @leeberr09 goal! #LGI pic.twitter.com/bVUYJ7aDfH
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) February 24, 2017
Welcome home @titobeauvi21! ???? #LGI pic.twitter.com/fWFc4PxZ5g
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) February 24, 2017
"Beau played great. You could see the look in his eye in practice this morning being here. It's special for a young kid." -Doug Weight #LGI pic.twitter.com/QcL7SfrRwv
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) February 24, 2017
"It was great to see Beau score in his hometown. It got everyone fired up. We had good work ethic and Greisser was solid." –@91Tavares #LGI pic.twitter.com/QrFDw7ew1Y
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) February 24, 2017
"I think these are probably our two best road games all year. We just broke out, outworked them and didn't give them much." -Greisser #LGI pic.twitter.com/ZyOQ9wr79g
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) February 24, 2017