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THIRD PERIOD
0.0: Final shot count in the game was 29-28 for the Islanders.
8:30: Islanders had the only seven shots in the period through the first 11 minutes of the third.
14:50: Bellows scored again just over three minutes later to give the Islanders their first lead of the game. | NYI 3, NJD 2
18:01: Kieffer Bellows wired his first of the season from the hashmarks over the shoulder of Blackwood to tie the game once again. | NJD 2, NYI 2
20:00: During the intermission, the NHL announced that referee Justin St. Pierre sustained an upper body injury and will not return to tonight’s game, leaving Pierre Lambert as the lone referee for the remainder of the game. Devils open the third with 24 seconds remaining on their power play.
SECOND PERIOD
0.0: After 40 minutes, shots on goal were 24-22 for the Devils.
1:36: Scott Mayfield was sent off for cross-checking.
1:44: Devils killed off the penalty.
4:21: Moments after killing off the penalty, the Devils turned five men on ice into six and were called for too many men. Islanders went back to the man advantage.
6:42: P.K. Subban was called for interference, sending the Islanders to the power play.
8:42: Shots in the second period were 11-5 for the Devils past the period’s midway point, 18-17 Islanders overall in the game.
10:55: Adam Pelech was called for hooking to send the Devils to the man advantage.
18:56: DEVILS BACK IN FRONT! Yegor Sharangovich wired a shot from the left circle off the bar and Janne Kuokkanen dove to bat a rolling puck over the line to regain the lead for New Jersey. | NJD 2, NYI 1
20:00: Period three has begun.
FIRST PERIOD
0.0: After one, shots on goal were 13-6 for the Islanders.
2:02: Seconds after the penalty expired, Oliver Wahlstrom rushed up ice with the puck and rifled a shot in the high slot under the crossbar. | NJD 1, NYI 1
2:08: Devils had a great shorthanded chance, Pavel Zacha driving to the net and getting denied at close range by Varlamov.
4:05: Jesper Bratt was called for holding Beauvillier, putting the Islanders back on the man advantage.
8:20: Islanders killed off the penalty. Shots on goal were 6-4 for New York just past the period’s midway point.
10:23: Andy Greene was called for hooking, to give the Devils a power play chance.
13:12: ZACHA! A minute after killing off the Maltsev penalty, the Devils scored the first goal of the night. Pavel Zacha skated through the neutral zone with speed and in the high slot, wristed it on goal, handcuffing Islanders netminder Semyon Varlamov. | NJD 1, NYI 0
16:12: Mikhail Maltsev was called for interference on Josh Bailey, giving the game’s first power play to the Islanders.
20:00: Tonight’s game is underway.
DEVILS LINEUP
Kuokkanen – Zajac – Sharangovich
Johnsson – Hughes – Bratt
Maltsev – Zacha – Palmieri
Wood – McLeod – Bastian
Kulikov – Subban
Smith – Severson
Murray – Vatanen
Blackwood
OUT: Hischier, Butcher, Gusev, Dell
ISLANDERS LINEUP
Bellows – Barzal – Eberle
Beauvillier – Nelson – Bailey
Dal Colle – Pageau – Wahlstrom
Martin – Cizikas – Clutterbuck
Pelech – Pulock
Leddy – Mayfield
Greene – Dobson
Varlamov
OUT: Lee, Czarnik, Aho, Johnston
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