Brock Nelson scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:25 remaining in the third period, and the New York Islanders recovered for a 5-3 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Friday.After Tampa Bay had scored twice in the third to tie it 3-3, Anthony Beauvillier sent a spinning pass to the right face-off circle, where Nelson scored on a wrist shot to give New York a 4-3 lead.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored an empty-net goal for the 5-3 final with 36 seconds left.
Nelson, Beauvillier and Pageau each had a goal and an assist, and Semyon Varlamov made 34 saves for the Islanders, the No. 6 seed, who avoided a third straight loss to begin the best-of-7 series.
Ondrej Palat, Tyler Johnson and Mikhail Sergachev scored, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 31 saves for the Lightning, the No. 2 seed.
Game 4 is in Edmonton, the hub city for the conference finals and the Stanley Cup Final, on Sunday (3 p.m. ET; NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS).
Palat redirected a centering pass from Nikita Kucherov on a power play to cut the lead to 3-2 at 2:32 of the third, and Johnson tied it 3-3 by redirecting a shot from Erik Cernak at 12:04. Johnson’s goal was upheld after a video review determined his stick was not above the crossbar.
Cal Clutterbuck put New York ahead 1-0 at 12:58 of the first period on a wrist shot from the left face-off circle.
Sergachev scored on a backhand in the slot to tie it 1-1 at 16:31 of the first.
Adam Pelech gave New York a 2-1 lead at 11:50 of the second period on a wrist shot under Vasilevskiy’s glove before Beauvillier pushed it to 3-1 at 13:50 on a one-timer from the slot off a backhand pass from Nelson.
The Lightning played without forward Brayden Point, who missed the final 34:37 of Game 2 for undisclosed reasons. He has 23 points (eight goals, 15 assists) in 15 games this postseason, including five points (two goals, three assists) in Game 1 of this series. They were also without forward Alex Killorn, who was serving a one-game suspension for boarding Nelson in Game 2.
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