ANAHEIM, Calif. — Kyle Palmieri had a career-high four points with one goal and three assists, Brock Nelson scored two goals, and linemate Pierre Engvall also scored in a 6-3 win over the New York Islanders. scored against the Anaheim Ducks.
Nelson scored the equalizer late in the second period and added another goal in the third to secure a second straight 30-goal season for the Islanders, who snapped a two-game skid.
Engvall has scored in three consecutive games for the Isles, who signed the Swedish winger from Toronto two weeks ago, with a career-high 15 goals.
The 32-year-old Palmieri scored four points for the first time in his 724-game NHL career, which began in five seasons at Anaheim.
The Ducks chose Palmieri in the first round of 2009.
Hudson Fashing and Zach Paris also scored, and Ilya Sorokin made 20 saves in a ricocheting performance for the Islanders, who were ahead 10-3 in their first back-to-back regulation losses since January.
Facing the NHL’s worst defensive team at the Honda Center, Isles produced his best scoring performance since January 3.
Kevin Shattenkirk scored two goals and Max Jones scored in 25 seconds from the Ducks’ first showdown. The Ducks have lost 4 of his 5 games despite scoring in 8 of his 9 games so far.
John Gibson stopped 17 shots.
The Islanders are even with Pittsburgh, six points ahead of Florida in the Eastern Conference wildcard standings, but the Penguins and Panthers both have three games left in the Isles.
Jones beat Sorokin for his sixth goal of the season after being left alone in the slot in the first minute, but Palmieri equalized in the second half of the first with a cross ice pass from Engvall.
Trevor Zeglas then created a magical leg-through pass to himself to preserve possession of the puck before slipping it into Shattenkirk for the defense’s third goal of the season.
Shattenkirk added a power play goal in the third period in the sixth two-goal game of his long career.
Nelson beat Gibson in one time for his 29th goal with 23 seconds left in the second period to give the Islanders a clear lead.
The Ducks announced goaltender Anthony Strahs will miss the rest of the season after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery on Tuesday.
Stolarz has appeared in just 19 games this season for the worst defensive team in the NHL, his last appearance being on February 7th.
