Bo Horvat leads the Islanders past the Senators 4-2

Bo Horvat had a extremity and 2 assists, and nan New York Islanders hit nan Ottawa Senators 4-2

OTTAWA, Ontario -- Bo Horvat had a extremity and 2 assists, and nan New York Islanders hit nan Ottawa Senators 4-2 connected Thursday night.

Anders Lee had a extremity and an assistance for New York, which won for nan 3rd clip successful 4 games. Oliver Wahlstrom and Jean-Gabriel Pageau besides scored, and Semyon Varlamov made 28 saves.

Nick Jensen and Drake Batherson scored for Ottawa successful nan 3rd period. Tim Stutzle had 2 assists.

Senators goaltender Anton Forsberg made 21 stops.

Wahlstrom's first extremity of nan play lifted New York to a 3-0 lead 2:41 into nan third. But Jensen scored his first of nan twelvemonth astatine 7:43 and Batherson made it 3-2 pinch his sixth pinch 5:33 remaining.

But Horvat put it distant pinch an empty-netter pinch 10 seconds to go.

Ottawa had a scary infinitesimal connected a powerfulness play midway done nan first play erstwhile Josh Norris’ changeable deflected disconnected Ryan Pulock and caught Stutzle difficult successful nan forehead.

Stutzle returned to commencement nan 2nd play and played nan remainder of nan game.

Islanders: The statement of Lee, Horvat and Pageau was terrific.

Senators: Defenseman Artem Zub returned aft missing 9 games pinch a concussion. He was connected nan apical pairing pinch Jake Sanderson.

With 1:38 remaining successful nan 2nd period, Pageau hit Sanderson successful a conflict for nan puck and collapsed successful unsocial to hit Forsberg precocious connected nan instrumentality side.

Brady Tkachuk leads nan Senators pinch 7 goals, but his five-game constituent streak came to an end.

The Islanders big New Jersey connected Saturday, and nan Senators sojourn Boston to unfastened a two-game trip.

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