Philadelphia – Nick Laddie scored 2:23 in overtime and Ilya Sorokin scored 30 to lift the New York Islanders to a 1-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday night.
Both goals starred after the entire bout, when the Lady scored a fluke when his backhand pass went through the feet of Flyers defenseman Travis Sanheim and the legs of goalkeeper Brian Elliott.
“I think it was a more fortunate boom than anything,” Lady said.
The victory sent the Islanders ahead of the second-placed Pittsburgh Penguin in the East Division. New York is two points behind first-placed Washington.
“We weren’t as sharp as we needed,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz said. “But at the end of the day, a huge two digits. vast. “
Elliott made 27 saves, including several stellar stops in the third period.
Philadelphia is nine points behind Boston for the final playoff spot in the East Division.
It was the sixth time in eight matches in the season series that the game went on to the previous regulation.
Jordan Eberle and Jean-Gabriel Pague assisted on the game-winner which ended a long drought. The Islanders had not scored since the start of the game time of 159 minutes, 27 seconds of play, two games earlier.
Sorokin improved to 5–0–1 in six matches, five of which started against the Flyers.
“I felt good,” Sorokin said. “I think about what I should do at the moment and not think about the consequences and not what happened (before) some games.”
He kept the Islanders in the game with 23 saves through the first two periods, including several quality chances. Travis Konkani’s great opportunity to save his huge glove was the highlight of the second, after several strong stops in the first, including a rebuttal of Konkani.
“We wouldn’t have won that hockey game if it hadn’t been for the first time,” Trotz said. “We were slow out of the gates, we were not fast, we were not committed to the fight. Sometimes we need your goal to steal a game; it was a steal for us at first.
Flyers coach Ellen Vigneault said, “The first and second periods, we had some great looks. His goalkeeper made some real big saves at the right time. In my estimation, we had seen enough to get a couple in those two periods. “
The islanders found their crime late in the third, but this time Elliot relied on the task.
After a good pad save on Casey Cijicas, Elliott denied Kyle Palmieri with a sad stop, remaining in 7:11 regulation and snatching a hard slap shot of Andy Green 31 seconds later.
Sorokin scored both goals using his pad to deny Ivan Provorv 23 seconds into extra time, and in the big over, Elliott kept Brock Nelson’s backhander off a fine jettison.
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