NHL · Mar 1, 2026

Florida Panthers

4–5

Final

New York Islanders

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The Islanders slipped past the Panthers 5–4 at UBS Arena. M. Schaefer took first star with 2 goals and 1 assist.

Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Panthers	2	1	1	4	33
Islanders	1	2	2	5	26

★ Three Stars

1M. SchaeferNYI · 2G 1A

2A. LeeNYI · 1G 0A

3S. BennettFLA · 2G 0A

Scoring Summary

1st Period

03:44

Sandis Vilmanis (A.J. Greer, Sergei Bobrovsky)

1-0

14:54

Sam Bennett (Aaron Ekblad, Matthew Tkachuk)PP

2-0

18:01

Matthew Schaefer (Ryan Pulock, Mathew Barzal)

2-1

2nd Period

07:28

Carson Soucy (Simon Holmstrom, Tony DeAngelo)

2-2

12:04

Sam Bennett (Matthew Tkachuk)

3-2

17:14

Bo Horvat (Matthew Schaefer)

3-3

3rd Period

10:29

Matthew Schaefer (Ondrej Palat)

3-4

18:02

Sam Reinhart (Aaron Ekblad, Matthew Tkachuk)

4-4

19:28

Anders Lee (Tony DeAngelo, Adam Pelech)

4-5

Boxscore

Panthers4

Skater	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	HIT	BLK	TOI
Matthew TkachukL	0	3	3	-1	0	3	1	1	19:16
Sam BennettC	2	0	2	-1	0	4	0	0	19:58
Aaron EkbladD	0	2	2	+1	0	1	2	1	26:24
Sam ReinhartC	1	0	1	-1	0	4	1	0	20:34
Sandis VilmanisL	1	0	1	+1	0	2	0	1	7:45
A.J. GreerL	0	1	1	+1	0	1	4	0	7:57
Jesper BoqvistC	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	1	7:44
Evan RodriguesC	0	0	0	-2	0	2	0	1	17:11
Anton LundellC	0	0	0	+1	0	0	3	0	17:30
Eetu LuostarinenC	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	15:24
Brad MarchandL	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	16:14
Carter VerhaegheC	0	0	0	-2	0	3	0	1	17:14
Gustav ForslingD	0	0	0	-2	0	3	1	2	26:11
Dmitry KulikovD	0	0	0	-2	0	1	1	0	20:27
Niko MikkolaD	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	1	23:03
Mackie SamoskevichR	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	1	15:43
Jeff PetryD	0	0	0	-1	0	1	3	2	9:50
Donovan SebrangoD	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	10:29

Goalie	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
Sergei BobrovskyStart	26	21	5	.808	59:06
Daniil Tarasov	0	0	0	-	0:00

Islanders5

Skater	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	SOG	HIT	BLK	TOI
Matthew SchaeferD	2	1	3	+4	2	5	0	4	23:17
Tony DeAngeloD	0	2	2	-2	0	1	0	0	21:34
Bo HorvatC	1	0	1	+1	0	3	1	2	20:24
Anders LeeL	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	15:00
Carson SoucyD	1	0	1	+1	0	1	1	3	14:57
Mathew BarzalC	0	1	1	+2	0	5	2	1	17:45
Simon HolmstromR	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	1	16:17
Ondrej PalatL	0	1	1	+2	0	2	2	1	15:16
Adam PelechD	0	1	1	-2	0	0	2	2	20:58
Ryan PulockD	0	1	1	+3	2	0	1	2	22:12
Casey CizikasC	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	11:55
Anthony DuclairL	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	13:22
Emil HeinemanL	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	14:28
Kyle MacLeanC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10:47
Jean-Gabriel PageauC	0	0	0	+2	0	2	0	0	16:28
Scott MayfieldD	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	17:09
Marc GatcombC	0	0	0	-1	0	0	4	1	10:45
Calum RitchieC	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	13:20

Goalie	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
David RittichStart	33	29	4	.879	60:00
Ilya Sorokin	0	0	0	-	0:00