Rick DiPietro earned his 100th NHL victory with an 18-save effort last night and the Islanders beat the Rangers for the third time this season, 2–1.

DiPietro, the first goalie ever drafted no. 1 when the Islanders took the Massachusetts native in 2000, followed up a 1-0 win Friday against New Jersey with another stellar performance against Long Island’s biggest rival.

The Islanders are 8–1–2 in their last 11 against the Rangers, and now have 500 road wins in franchise history. DiPietro earned his 12th victory over New York and snapped the Rangers’ winning streak at five.

The Islanders’ last seven games were all decided by one goal and in regulation.

The Rangers came home after a four-game road sweep and had won nine of 10, but are 0–3 against the Islanders.

Ruslan Fedotenko and Josef Vasicek staked the Islanders to a 2-0 lead in the second period.

Michal Rozsival scored for the Rangers, who got 22 saves from Henrik Lundqvist but fell to 8–3 at home.

After a sluggish first period in which the teams combined for 11 shots, and the Islanders were whistled for icing five times in the first 3:11, the action picked up in the second.

The puck squirted free following a neutral zone faceoff and slid into the Rangers zone. Fedotenko tracked it in the left circle and smacked it past Lundqvist to make it 1-0 on the Islanders’ sixth shot.

Vasicek did most of the work minutes later to double the lead. Sean Bergenheim worked the puck loose along the boards and nudged it to Vasicek, who raced down left wing on a 3-on-2 break. He carried all the way to the left circle dot and snapped a shot that sailed past Lundqvist’s left shoulder at 5:51.