Islanders 巡航する past Sabres 5-2 for 5th straight 勝利，勝つ
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Anders 物陰／風下 and Brock Nelson 得点する／非難する／２０d 62 seconds apart 早期に in the second period and 新人 Ilya Sorokin made 24 saves as the New York Islanders 敗北・負かすd the Buffalo Sabres 5-2 on Sunday for their fifth straight 勝利，勝つ.
The victory was the Islanders' sixth straight over the Sabres this season.
After a scoreless first period, 物陰／風下 netted his team-主要な 12th goal of the season at 5:13 just after an Islanders 力／強力にする play 満了する／死ぬd. 物陰／風下 得点する／非難する／２０d from in 前線 of Sabres netminder Jonas Johansson with 補助装置s to Jordan Eberle and Noah Dobson. 物陰／風下 has six goals in the six games against the Sabres this season and has eight goals in his past 12 games 全体にわたる.
"We did a really good 職業 of sticking with our 計画（する） and playing with a lead,'' 物陰／風下 said. "We really 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 限界 their chances. Just a good team 成果／努力."
Nelson quickly made it 2-0 at 6:15, ライフル銃／探して盗むing the puck past Johansson, who also lost 5-2 to the Islanders on Thursday. Oliver Wahlstrom and Nick Leddy 補助装置d.
Casey Cizikas 増加するd the lead to 3-0 at 16:56 with his fourth goal. 補助装置s went to ジーンズ-Gabriel Pageau (200th career point) and defenseman Adam Pelech.
New York Islanders 中心 Casey Cizikas (53) and Buffalo Sabres 中心 Curtis Lazar (27) 戦う／戦い for the puck during the third period of an NHL ホッケー game, Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Uniondale, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
"They were playing hard and we 出資するd on our chances,'' Cizikas said. "We bent, but we didn´t break."
Sorokin, the 25-year-old netminder, earned his fourth 勝利，勝つ of the season as the Islanders 改善するd to 10-0-2 at Nassau Coliseum. The Islanders are the only team in the league without a 規則 loss at home.
"We get each other going,'' Cizikas 追加するd. "We want to make it hard and make other teams know they are in for a 空中戦／乱闘 in our building."
Jeff Skinner's goal at 5:41 of the third period 廃虚d Sorokin's shutout 企て，努力，提案.
It was Skinner´s first goal this season and first since last Feb. 29. Skinner, who 得点する／非難する／２０d 40 times for Buffalo two seasons ago, is in the second year of an eight-year, $72 million 契約. He was （法廷の）裁判d by Sabres coach Ralph Krueger for three games late last month.
Sabres defenseman Colin Miller 狭くするd the 赤字 to 3-2 at 9:35 of the third with 補助装置s to Sabres captain Jack Eichel and Taylor Hall before Cal Clutterbuck, who also 得点する／非難する／２０d in Saturday´s 5-2 勝利，勝つ over the Sabres, 追加するd his third of the season at 12:57.
Nelson 得点する／非難する／２０d his second of the game and ninth of the season into an empty 逮捕する at 17:48 to 完全にする the 得点する／非難する／２０ing.
The struggling Sabres who are getting hardly any goal 生産／産物 from their 最高の，を越す scorers Eichel, Hall and Skinner (five goals between them in a 連合させるd 64 games) are 2-10-1 since a 軍隊d two-week 延期する in their season during 早期に February because of COVID-19 議定書s.
Eichel, the team captain who 得点する／非難する／２０d 36 times last season, hasn´t 得点する／非難する／２０d since Jan. 28. Hall, the first 全体にわたる 選ぶ by Edmonton in 2010 who 調印するd for one year with the Sabres as a 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官, has 得点する／非難する／２０d only once since 開始 night. That goal （機の）カム in Thursday´s 5-2 loss to the Islanders.
Krueger again tried to find 肯定的なs まっただ中に his team's swoon. The schedule doesn't get any easier as the Sabres visit Philadelphia on Tuesday before playing five of their next six games at home, where they have only won twice in 11 games.
"The psychology an d 死刑執行 of it is something that we have to continue to 演説（する）／住所,'' the coach said. "There was at least a reaction in the third today, but in the end, we needed a result and we didn´t get it."
The Islanders (15-6-4) lead their 分割 25 games into the abbreviated 56-game season. They also 改善するd to 21-2-3 in the second game of 支援する-to-支援する games under coach Barry Trotz.
"I thought both teams played really hard and the 権利 way today,'' Trotz said. "We're doing the 権利 things. You just have to 戦う／戦い it out. I think we understand that. We kept 圧力ing them and playing our game."
Last-place Buffalo lost for the seventh straight time as the Islanders won all three games against Buffalo at Nassau Coliseum over the past four days. The teams play again on 連続した days in Buffalo on May 3-4.
"We need to find lessons 権利 now,'' Krueger 追加するd. "The only way we are going to get out of this is with a group 成果／努力 and with a かかわり合い to our game for 60 minutes, which we've been unable to do of late."
QUIRKY SCHEDULE
This was the second time in franchise history the Islanders 直面するd the same 対抗者 in three 連続した games. New York 以前 did it March 4-10, 2012, against the Devils. The Islanders will repeat the feat three times this season: March 11-14 against New Jersey, March 18-22 against Philadelphia and April 22-27 against Washington. The Sabres played three straight against the same team in the same season for the first time in franchise history.
CONSISTENT ISLANDERS
Islanders coach Barry Trotz has started the same six defensemen in every game this season. The Islanders also are in a stretch in which they are scheduled to play 19 games in 33 days for the first time in franchise history. They are 6-0-1 thus far in this busy （期間が）わたる.
UP NEXT:
Islanders: Hosting Boston Bruins on Tuesday as five-game homestand continues.
Sabres: Visiting Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday before playing five of next six games at home.
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New York Islanders 中心 Mathew Barzal (13) pulls away from Buffalo Sabres 中心 Curtis Lazar (27) during the third period of an NHL ホッケー game, Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Uniondale, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Buffalo Sabres 中心 Curtis Lazar (27) and defenseman Brandon Montour (62) 戦う／戦い for the puck against New York Islanders 中心 Casey Cizikas (53) and 右翼 Cal Clutterbuck (15) during the third period of an NHL ホッケー game, Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Uniondale, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Buffalo Sabres defenseman Colin Miller (33) 得点する／非難する／２０s on New York Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin (30) during the third period of an NHL ホッケー game, Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Uniondale, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
New York Islanders 中心 Brock Nelson (29) skates the puck up the ice during the third period of an NHL ホッケー game against the Buffalo Sabres, Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Uniondale, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
