New York Islanders coach Patrick Roy spent part of the evening brooding and cursing at the officials, but in the end, he went home with a smile and two more points in the standings thanks to a victory of 4-3 in shootouts over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday.
With the score 0-0 in the second period, Sidney Crosby’s goal raised the ire of Roy when the linesmen determined that there was no offside at the blue line as the restart video seemed to demonstrate the opposite.
When a Penguins player relayed the puck into the enemy zone, the disc appeared to hit Noel Acciari in the leg while the latter was returning to his bench. One skate on the ice and one skate on the bench, officials determined he was not in an offside situation during the middle period where the players’ benches are on opposite sides of the defensive zones.
After review, the goal was allowed, which made Roy lose his composure, who kept pointing at the screen to try to convince the officials that their decision was not the right one.
In regulation time, three Islanders players were able to find the back of the net. Kyle Palmieri, Simon Holmstrom and Jean-Gabriel Pageau with the equalizing goal were the authors.
The Islanders became the sixth team to come back from more than one goal in the third period to win this season. This is also their 92nd tiebreaker victory, which allows the New Yorkers to climb to the top of the NSL in this category since the introduction of the concept of overtime and shootouts in the league in 2005-2006.
Evgeni Malkin scored once and had an assist. Michael Bunting scored the other goal while Rickard Rakell had a hand in two of the Penguins’ three goals in the loss.
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