Isles let the home and away game become a one-sided loss to the Bruins

The Islanders didn’t have a lead against the Bruins in the third period. However, they lost the game in the last 20 minutes.

Pavel Zacha scored two goals in a two-minute, 35-second span in the final period to lead the Bruins to a 6-3 victory at UBS Arena on Wednesday night, while the Islanders finished a 1-2-0 home stretch.

As a result, Brock Nelson’s two goals, part of his three-point night, were wasted.

Ilya Sorokin stopped 15 shots for the Islanders (8-10-5). But Zacha fended off defenseman Andrew Peeke’s shot for the winning goal at 10:48 of the third period and then scored with a close backhander at 13:23 to make it 5-3.

The Bruins entered the game ranked 30th in the NHL with 51 goals scored (2.2 per game), while the Islanders were 27th with 56 goals scored (2.6 per game). The Bruins’ power play ranked last in the NHL at 11-for-89 (12.4%), while the Islanders were 31st at 8-for-63 (12.7%).

So it was natural to expect a low-scoring game, especially for the Bruins (11-10-3), who are now 3-1-0 since Joe Sacco took over behind the bench for the fired Jim Montgomery and played one after the other. back after a 2-0 loss to the visiting Canucks on Tuesday.

The Islanders had scored first in their last four games, but had lost third-period leads in four of their last five games (1-3-1).

They entered the final period tied at 3-3 after Nelson scored his second goal, ripping a wrister from the bottom of the left circle with 6.5 seconds left in the second half, a solid passing sequence throughout the zone the Bruins graduated.

The Islanders had conceded a 2-0 lead against the Bruins. Brad Marchand scored a one-timer just 57 seconds into the first period after Elias Lindholm beat Casey Cizikas in the Islanders’ tying zone, then scored again at 6:31.

That prompted Patrick Roy to take advantage of his time off.

But Maxim Tsyplakov, who sent a backhand ball over the net with a free shot from the inside in at the beginning of the first period, hit the puck with his backhand through the pads of Joonas Korpisalo (21 saves) at 12:50.

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Nelson, speeding into the Bruins zone after a turnover, scored a wrister to make it 2-2 at 8:52 of the second period before Morgan Geekie hit a one-timer from the left circle after Zacha’s cross-ice Feed regained the ball by one goal for the Bruins at 11:59.

Notes and quotes: The Islanders and UBS Arena distributed 200 Thanksgiving dinners to families in need before the game, with players, players’ wives and UBS employees volunteering to help distribute the meals… Defenseman Grant Hutton and forward Hudson Fasching were the healthy scratches, but Roy said, Carnival would play in Washington on Friday afternoon.

Andrew Gross joined Newsday in 2018 to cover the Islanders. He began covering the NHL in 2003 and previously covered the Rangers and Devils. Other assignments included the Jets, St. John’s and MLB.