Bruins storm back to beat Islanders, 5-2

When the Bruins are bad they look like they couldn t break out of their zone against a high school organization But against all reasonable predictions for this confounding squad the B s are a squad that has been able to outcome in bunches especially when a little urgency is infused into their match Both personalities were on full display on Tuesday when the B s stormed back from - deficit with five unanswered goals to beat the New York Islanders - at the Garden One component that is mandatory for this unit is good goaltending and they got that Joonas Korpisalo saves was excellent especially in the third period The start to the night was not promising for the locals For the first shift and a half it looked like the Bruins were authentically ready to play on their toes They caused numerous turnovers in the Islanders zone and seemed ready to capitalize But Hampus Lindholm activated off injured reserve a scarce hours earlier missed the net from the slot and all of a sudden the Islanders had a dangerous breakout served right to them Once in the Bruins zone Jonathan Drouin dropped a pass for Bo Horvat and Horvat after beating Morgan Geekie up the ice beat Korpisalo to the far side just into the competition It got worse before it got better In he first month of the season Nikita Zadorov had done a good job of staying out the box But he took a costly penalty in the debacle in Ottawa on Monday and then he took another one early on Tuesday After Sean Kuraly turned the puck over on a breakout and the Isles counterattacked Zadorov tripped Matthew Barzal On the delayed call the Islanders razzled-dazzled the B s until Barzal zipped a long-distance pass through the slot to Kyle Palmieri for an easy backdoor goal at Instantly the B s were chasing the meeting They were able to stop the bleeding to get to the first intermission down by just two they had to kill off another Zadorov boarding penalty on Adam Pelech on a dangerous play but they had not generated much since the first minute of the battle Coach Marco Sturm tried to shake up his lines a bit moving Marat Khusnutdinov up to the first line and dropping Geekie down to the third line with Tanner Jeannot and Fraser Minten but nothing was happening at first The Isles held a - shot advantage in the first and the B s heard the boos as they headed to the room for the first break With a little help from the Islanders the B s woke up in the second period scoring three times in the first of the period The visitors gave the B s several life at the start of the second giving them two power plays in the first four minutes The B s could not capitalize on the first power play but they were able to cut the deficit to a goal on the second one After Marshall Warren went to the box for hauling down Mark Kastelic the B s were able to set up in the New York zone From down low Pavel Zacha sent a pass out to the top of the circle for an Elias Lindholm one-timer at his fourth of the season all on the power play The B s evened it up at Hampus Lindholm detected David Pastrnak for what looked like a back door shot Pastrnak double-clutched faking the slapper and appeared to have missed his shot But he fooled Ilya Sorokin with a soft five-hole shot his sixth of the season Then seconds later the B s took the lead Charlie McAvoy took the puck down low on the right side and sent a perfect pass into the crease for Mike Eyssimont who fought off Jean-Gabriel Pageau s check and tapped it in for his third With the Garden crowd buzzing Islander coach Patrick Roy called his timeout to settle his players down At one point the B s were outshooting the Isles - in the period but the New Yorkers eventually pushed back Korpisalo came up with a two huge saves on a Horvat breakaway and his follow-up but that gave the Isles momentum After an elongated shift inside their own zone Hampus Lindholm took a double-minor for high-sticking on Kyle Palmieri with left in the period The B s killed the first minor off but still had to kill to start the third They killed that off and then a bad Pastrnak O-zone hooking penalty before they got a power play of their own And they cashed in After Zadorov was slashed heading to the net Geekie scored his sixth goal in five games and eighth of the season pounding a McAvoy feed past Sorokin for a two-goal lead at Korpisalo made that two-goal lead stand up until Minten scored an empty netter with left