Golden Knights win in shootout in Robin Lehner’s return to Long Island

Goalie Robin Lehner was victorious successful his instrumentality to Long Island connected Sunday, and the Golden Knights won 4-3 successful a shootout implicit the New York Islanders astatine UBS Arena successful Elmont, New York.

Defenseman Shea Theodore scored doubly successful the 3rd period, including the tying extremity connected a thrust from the constituent with 47.1 seconds remaining successful regulation. Jonathan Marchessault and Nicolas Roy scored successful the shootout.

Islanders guardant Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored the go-ahead extremity with 2:20 remaining successful the 3rd play aft guardant Kieffer Bellows capitalized connected a turnover and tied the people astatine 2 little than 4 minutes earlier.

The Knights (19-11, 38 points) played without skipper Mark Stone due to the fact that of an upper-body wounded but extended their winning streak to a season-best 5 games to determination into archetypal spot successful the Pacific Division by points percentage.

They unfastened a three-game homestand against two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay connected Tuesday and play 9 of their adjacent 10 games astatine T-Mobile Arena.

Lehner, who stopped some attempts successful the shootout, was honored with a video tribute during the archetypal period. He fought backmost tears arsenic helium pointed to the tattoo of Long Island connected his cervix and gave a thumbs up to the crowd.

Lehner spent 1 play with the Islanders successful 2018-19 and said the instrumentality basal “saved my life” aft helium emerged from rehabilitation for intoxicant and substance abuse.

It was his archetypal quality successful beforehand of Islanders fans since April 28, 2019, astatine Barclays Center successful Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against Carolina.

Marchessault scored his team-leading 14th extremity successful the archetypal play for the Knights, cashing successful a rebound. Brock Nelson scored the equalizer connected a powerfulness play erstwhile his changeable deflected disconnected the skate of Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb.

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