The Skinny: Ottawa 3, Isles 2 (SO)

"The Skinny"

By Eric Hornick

Game 57

Ottawa 3, Isles 2 (SO)

Kevin Mandolese made 46 saves in his NHL debut and Tim Stutzle had a goal, an assist, and the deciding goal in the shootout as the Ottawa Senators defeated the Islanders 3-2 before a crowd of 15,134 at UBS Arena. 

Ryan Pulock and Brock Nelson sandwiched goals from Stutzle and Brady Tkachuk in regulation. For the second straight game the Isles had an overtime power play but couldn't score, setting the stage for the shootout.

The Isles are 27-23-7 and host Pittsburgh on Friday in the first of two President's Day Weekend meetings between the teams.

The Scoring:

1st Period

No Goals

2nd Period

Ryan Pulock (3) Matt Martin (9), Sebastian Aho (11) 05:41 OTT 0,NYI 1

Tim Stützle (24) Brady Tkachuk (34), Travis Hamonic (7) 17:32 OTT 1,NYI 1

3rd Period

Brady Tkachuk (22) Tim Stützle (31), Thomas Chabot (22) 03:41 OTT 2,NYI 1 PPG

Brock Nelson (22) Noah Dobson (22), Mathew Barzal (35) 07:13 OTT 2,NYI 2 PPG

OT

No Goals

The Shootout

Alex DeBrincat (NG) / Bo Horvat (NG)

Tim Stützle (G/GDG)/ Kyle Palmieri (NG)

Drake Batherson (G)

The Isles have lost all four of their shootouts this season and twelve of their last fourteen shootouts … Ilya Sorokin falls to 4-8 in shootouts …The Isles have scored on just 1 of 11 shootout attempts this season.

The Skinny    

Brock Nelson extended his point streak to a career-high eleven games; it matches Josh Bailey (11-game streak in December 2017) for the longest streak by an Islander in the last 11 years…The Isles went 1-6 on the power play and are 5-15 on the power play since the All-Star Break, after hitting the break having gone 3-prior 64… The Isles had 15 shots on goal on the power play… The Isles scored the first goal for the 12th time in the last 15 games … The Isles have scored 35 goals in the last sixteen games (5-6-5); 17 of those goals have been scored in the first period…The Isles have been outscored 18-4 in their last eighteen third periods… The Isles' third period differential remains -1; the Isles were +16 in the third period through 23 games but are -17 over the last 34 games… Matt Martin's assist was his 15th point of the season, representing the second-highest total of his career; his career high of 19 was set in 2015-16…. Noah Dobson has five points in the last three games; Dobson finished with a career-high eight shots on goals and nineteen attempts, which is the most by any NHL defenseman this season. (John Carlson had 15) and the most by an Islander defenseman since attempts were recorded beginning in the 2009-10 season…The Isles are the fourth NHL team to have 30 goals from their defensemen…Zach Parise played in his 1,199th NHL game; he will be the 126^th player to appear in 1,200 games…Kevin Mandolese recorded the most saves in his debut by a Senator, and the most against the Isles (previously 34 by Justin Peters and Michael Hauser); It is only the 6th time in NHL history a goalie has made at least 46 saves in his debut…Tim Stutzle had points on all six Ottawa goals in their back-to-back sweep of Calgary and the Isles; he now has points on ten of the last 13 Sens goals…The Isles played their 16th scoreless first period – it is the highest total in the NHL (Montreal has played 15).

First Times in a Long Time

Bo Horvat played a career-high 27:49.  It was the most ice-time for any Islander forward since Kyle Okposo played 28:20 on April 11, 2010, in a season-ending overtime loss to Pittsburgh and the tenth-highest total for an Isles forward since ice-time was recorded officially.

Noah Dobson played 25:57 and Mathew Barzal played a career-high 25:50.  It is the first time three Islanders played at least 25 minutes since Thomas Hickey, Nick Leddy and John Tavares all did so on January 17, 2016 (also a shootout loss, this one to Vancouver) and the first time three players played at least 25:50 since Travis Hamonic, Calvin deHaan and Andrew MacDonald did so in a shootout win in San Jose on December 10, 2013.

Those Debut Goalies

Mandolese was the first goalie to debut against the Isles since Akira Schmid did so for New Jersey in December 2011 (first Isles win at UBS).  While the Isles beat Schmid, they have now lost 4 of their last 5 against starting goalies making their NHL debut (the Isles did beat Maxime Legace of Vegas in relief).

Chasing 50

Bo Horvat has 34 goals in 54 games this season. No Islander has had at least 34 goals through the team's 57th game since Pierre Turgeon had 36 in 1992-93.  (If Horvat plays every game the rest of the season he would appear in 79 games.)

In Every Game

The Isles have played 57 games and have not lost by more than three goals in any of them.  It is the first time in club history this has happened.

Last Year vs. This Year

• 2022-23  27-23-7 for 61 points in 57 games

• 2021-22  25-24-8 for 58 points in 57 games; finished 37-35-10 for 84 points.

Offense from Defense

• Today:  1-2-3

• Season: 30-86-116

• Last Season (Final) 32-128-160

The Islander defense have scored 30 goals; they didn't score their 30th  goal last season until game 80 on April 26th.   

Best of the Best

Ilya Sorokin has 15 shutouts in 111 career starts.  He has recorded a shutout in 13.6% of his starts, which is the best in NHL history (since 1943-44) among goalies with at least 100 starts:

• Ilya Sorokin 13.4%

• Roman Cechmanek 12.2%

• Ken Dryden 11.8%

• Dominik Hasek 11.3%

Zach Attack 

Zach Parise has 422 career goals, good for 9th among actives, and tied with Owen Nolan for 85th place; Steve Shutt is 84th with 424 goals.

Home and Road

The Isles are 27-23-7 overall; they are 16-10-3 at home and 11-13-4 on the road.

Ottawa is 26-24-3 overall; they are 15-12-1 at home and 11-12-2 on the road.

East and West

The Isles are 15-12-5 against the East (10-5-1 vs. Metropolitan and 5-7-5 vs. Atlantic) and 12-11-2 against the West (4-7-2 vs. Central and 8-4-0 vs. Pacific).

Home is Where the Fans Are

The Isles have played 70 games at UBS Arena and recorded 48 sellouts of 17,255. 

Sweet Lou

Lou Lamoriello has the second-highest win total for any general manager in NHL history:

1. David Poile 1,516

2. Lou Lamoriello 1,390

3. Glen Sather 1,319

First Things First

The Isles are 19-8-3 when scoring first and are 8-15-4 when allowing the opening goal. 

The Shots

Isles      10-18-15-5=48

Ottawa  10-18-6-0=34

The Isles are 14-9-2 when they outshoot their opponents, 0-0-0 when the shots are even and 13-14-5 when they are outshot. 

In the Nets

Ilya Sorokin made 46 saves; he is 17-17-5 on the season and 2-0-1 vs Ottawa. 

Kevin Mandolese made 46 saves; he is 1-0-0 on the season and 1-0-0 vs. the Isles.  

Special Teams

The Isles were 1-6 on the power play (11:02); Ottawa was 1-3 on the power play (4:52).

The Isles are 12-9-3 when they score at least one power play goal and 15-14-4 when they do not. The Isles are 11-11-2 when they allow at least one power play goal and 16-12-5 when they do not.

Three is a Magic Number

The Isles are 22-6-3 when they score at least three goals (including shootout winners) and are 5-17-4 when they do not.

One-Goal Games

The Isles are 10-5-7 in games decided by a single goal including 6-5 in regulation. They are 4-3 in games decided in overtime and are 0-4 in shootouts. The Isles are 4-7 in games in which an empty-net goal turns a 1-goal game into a 2-goal game.

Back-to-Backs   

The next set of back-to-backs will be on February 17th vs Pittsburgh and on February 18th in Boston. The Isles are 6-5-0 in the front end and 7-3-1 in the back end. 

Ice-time Leaders

Isles: Bo Horvat (27:49);  Ottawa: Thomas Chabot (25:55)

Bo Horvat led Isles forwards with 27:49 of ice-time. 

Isles record by ice-time leaders: Alexander Romanov (2-1-1), Noah Dobson (4-11-2), Adam Pelech (5-2-0), Ryan Pulock (5-5-1), Scott Mayfield (7-1-2), Brock Nelson (1-0-0), Mathew Barzal (2-1-0), Sebastian Aho (0-1-0), Bo Horvat (0-0-1), Tied (0-1-0).

Face-offs

Isles 31, Ottawa 33 (48%)

Brock Nelson won 7 of 13 for the Isles; Brady Tkachuk won 6 of 9 for Ottawa. 

Hit Count

Isles 21 (Matt Martin -4)

Ottawa 25 (Three with 3)

Fights 

None. Season total: 14 (Martin-6, Lee-2, Wahlstrom-2, Johnston-2, Cizikas, Romanov)

 

Blocked Shots

Isles 18 (Adam Pelech -5)

Ottawa 21 (Tyle Motte -5)

For the Analytics Crowd 

Corsi: All situations: Isles 89, Ottawa 62

Corsi: 5-on-5: Isles 59, Ottawa 48

5-on-5 leaders:

Isles:  Noah Dobson & Sebastian Aho +19

Ottawa:  Jacob Larsson +4

High Danger Scoring Chances (per Natural Stat Trick)

All situations: Isles 19, Ottawa 21

5-on-5: Isles 13, Ottawa 15

Scratches

Oliver Wahlstrom-IR), (Cal Clutterbuck – IR), Ross Johnston, Parker Wotherspoon, (Jean-Gabriel Pageau-INJ)

Games Lost: 125

The Ironman

Zach Parise played in his 139th consecutive Islander game; he has played in every game since joining the team in October 2021. Overall, his streak is 140 games, making it the 19th-longest active streak in the NHL. 

Challenges

Isles: 1 successful, 0 failures – STL goalie interference 11/3

Opponents: 2 successful, 0 failures – PIT offside 12/27, VAN goalie interference 2/9

League reviews: 5 (Isles goal – Salo vs ANA 10/16 – stood; Isles no goal vs NSH 12/2-stood; Isles goal- Martin vs CHI 12/4-awarded; MIN goal (Gaudreau) 1/12 – awarded), MTL goal (Matheson) 2/11-stood.

Quickies

The Isles have scored two goals in under a minute six times this season (five times at home and once on road):

• 0:17 10/29 vs. COL (Mayfield and Beauvillier)

• 0:59 11/7 vs. CGY (Lee and Palmieri)

• 0:22 11/26 vs PHI (Nelson and Beauvillier)

• 0:43 12/4 vs CHI (Parise and Nelson)

• 0:21 12/6 vs STL (Fasching and Pageau)

• 0:34 12/9 @ NJD (Cizikas and Wahlstrom)

Multi-Goal 3rd Period Comeback Wins

The Isles have come from two goals behind after two periods to win three times this season and have allowed the opposition to do so once.

For: Trailed 3-1, Won 5-3 vs. COL 10/29

Trailed 3-1, Won 4-3 (OT) vs CGY 11/7

Trailed 3-1, Won 4-3 at NYR 11/8

Vs  Led 4-2, Lost 6-5 vs VAN 2/9

Last Minute Heroes:

The Isles have scored two goal and allowed one goal in the final three minutes of the third period that were either the winning goal or forced overtime. 

For(2): Brock Nelson vs COL 10/29 (18:39;EN/GW)

Josh Bailey @ TOR 11/21 (17:02; Isles won in OT)

Vs (1): Kappo Kaako @NYR  12/22 (17:13: GW)

Overtime Winners

For (4): Noah Dobson vs CGY 11/7 (4:02)

Zach Parise vs CBJ 11/12 (0:39) 

Anthony Beauvillier @ TOR 11/21 (1:56)

Mathew Barzal vs VEG 1/28 (4:28)

Vs. (3): Dimitry Orlov Vs WAS 1/16 (4:27)

Dylan Cozens @ BUF 1/19 (0:12)

Mike Matheson @ MTL 2/11 (4:38)

Shootout Winners

Vs (4):  David Pastrnak @ BOS 12/13

Evan Rodrigues @ COL 12/19

Jason Robertson Vs DAL 1/10

Tim Stutzle Vs OTT 2/14

All-time Islander Leader Boards:

Games Played (skaters)

1. Bryan Trottier 1,123 *** 2. Denis Potvin 1,060 *** 3. Josh Bailey 1,046…

6. Bob Bourne 814 *** 7. Mike Bossy 752 *** 8. Matt Martin 741 *** 9. Brock Nelson 733 *** 10. Casey Cizikas 720… 

12. Brent Sutter 694 *** 13. John Tavares 669 *** 14. Anders Lee 653 *** 15. Derek King 638 *** 16. Billy Harris 623 *** 17. Stefan Persson 622 *** 18. Cal Clutterbuck 621

Goals    

1. Mike Bossy 573 *** 2. Bryan Trottier 500 *** 3. Denis Potvin 310 …

8. Bob Bourne 238 *** 9. Bobby Nystrom 235 *** 10. Anders Lee 231 *** 11. Brock Nelson 227 *** 12. Derek King 211 *** 13. John Tonelli 206  *** 14 Billy Harris 184 *** 15. Josh Bailey 182…

28. Ray Ferraro 116 *** 29 Mathew Barzal, Benoit Hogue, and Ed Westfall 105

Assists

1. Bryan Trottier 853 *** 2. Denis Potvin 742 *** 3. Mike Bossy 553 *** 4. Josh Bailey 394…

13. Pat LaFontaine 279 *** 14. Bob Nystrom 278 *** 15. Billy Harris 259 *** 16. Mathew Barzal 255 *** 17. Tomas Jonsson 249 *** 18. Frans Nielsen and Kyle Okposo 230 *** 20. Brock Nelson 212…

23. Ed Westfall 181 *** 24. Kenny Jonsson 175 *** 25. Alexei Yashin, Duane Sutter, and Anders Lee 171

Points

1. Bryan Trottier 1,353 *** 2. Mike Bossy 1,126 *** 3. Denis Potvin 1,052…

6.  Brent Sutter 610 *** 7. Josh Bailey 576  …

13. Patrick Flatley 488 *** 14. Billy Harris 443 *** 15. Brock Nelson 439 ***  16. Anders Lee 402 *** 17. Kyle Okposo and Stefan Persson 369…19. Mathew Barzal 360

+/-

1. Bryan Trottier +467 *** 2. Denis Potvin +456 *** 3. Mike Bossy +380…

15. Bob Lorimer +105 *** 16. Tomas Jonsson +76 *** 17. Garry Howatt +75 *** 18. Adam Pelech +71 *** 19. Pat Price +70 *** 20. JP Parise +67 *** 21. Jude Drouin +58 *** 22. Patrick Flatley +57 *** 23. Greg Gilbert +54

Defense Goals

1. Denis Potvin 310 *** 2. Tomas Jonsson 84 *** Kenny Jonsson 57…

6. Nick Leddy 45 *** 7. Roman Hamrlik 43 **** 8. Ryan Pulock 41 *** 9. Mark Streit 40 *** 10. Johnny Boychuk *** 11. Adrian Aucoin 33 *** 12. Bryan Berard 31***13. Noah Dobson 28

Defense Assists

1. Denis Potvin 742 *** 2. Stefan Persson 317 *** 3. Tomas Jonsson 249…

8. Mark Streit 139 *** 9. Roman Hamrlik 120 *** 10. Ryan Pulock 123…

15. Bryan Berard 100 *** 16. Vladimir Malakhov 98 *** 17. Johnny Boychuk 96 *** 18.Adam Pelech,  Dave Langevin and Thomas Hickey 95…

24. Adrian Aucoin 80 ***25. Scott Lachance 79 *** 26. Scott Mayfield and Noah Dobson 77

Defense Points

1. Denis Potvin 1,052 *** 2. Stefan Persson 369 *** 3. Tomas Jonsson 333…

8. Mark Streit 179 *** 9. Ryan Pulock 163…

17. Vladimir Malakhov 125 *** 18. Thomas Hickey and Adam Pelech 117...

23. Scott Lachance ,Ken Morrow, and Noah Dobson 105 *** 26. Scott Mayfield 101

Wins

1. Billy Smith 304 *** 2. Glenn Resch 157 *** 3. Rick DiPietro 130…

8. Glenn Healy 66 *** 9. Tommy Salo 62 *** 10. Semyon Varlamov 58 *** 11. Evgeni Nabokov 57 *** 12. Ilya Sorokin 56

Shutouts

1. Glenn Resch 25 *** 2. Billy Smith 22 *** 3. Rick DiPietro 16 …

4. Ilya Sorokin 15 *** 5. Tommy Salo 14 *** 6. Semyon Varlamov and Jaroslav Halak 12 

On the Farm

Bridgeport fell back to AHL .500 with a 19-19-7-1 record as they had only 15 shots on goal in a 3-0 loss to  Lehigh Valley on Saturday night.

Andy Andreoff leads the team (and is tied-10th in the AHL) with 20 goals, while Chis Terry continues to lead in assists (30) and points (44). William Dufour has 15 goals and is tied-6th among AHL rookies while All-Star Ruslan Ishakov is tied-3rd among AHL rookies with 22 assists.

The Baby Islanders begin a 3-in-3 weekend Friday, when they visit Hartford.

Season Series Stats

Ottawa wins the season series, 2 games to 1 (and 4 points to 3).   

The Isles had won five straight home games against the Sens; they are now 10-2-1 in their last thirteen match-ups with Ottawa.

UP NEXT

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17th  – PITTSBURGH AT ISLANDERS 7:00pm

[MSGSN (Pre-game at 6:30), WRHU 88.7 FM, WRCN 103.9FM, ESPN Radio]

The Islanders begin a stretch of three games in four days as they entertain the Penguins in the second meeting of the teams this season. 

The Isles earned a 5-1 victory in the first meeting on December 27th; the teams will meet again on Monday in Pittsburgh.

The Isles are 7-1-4 in their last 12 home games against the Pens, with the only loss coming on Boxing Day 2021 with the Islanders missing numerous players due to COVID.

Eric Hornick has been the statistician on Islander home game telecasts since January 21, 1982. Information contained in "The Skinny" has been gathered from various sources. Follow Eric @ehornick on Twitter & on his blog www.nyiskinny.com

Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since January 21, 1982. Visit my blog: NYISkinny.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick