Islanders Top Rangers in Shootout

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Miroslav Satan beat Henrik Lundqvist with a wrist shot in a shootout to give the Islanders a 3-2 victory over the Rangers last night, their first win in the local rivalry in 11 games.


Satan, who had a goal in regulation, was the only shooter to score in the shootout, the first of the season for both teams.


Lundqvist stopped Alexei Yashin’s backhand attempt to open the shootout, and the Islanders’ Rick DiPietro made a pad save on Steve Rucchin’s wrist shot on the Rangers’ first attempt. After Satan scored, the Rangers’ Jaromir Jagr broke his stick on a wrist shot, with DiPietro easily stopping the puck. The Islanders’ Mark Parrish missed the net on his attempt, and the Rangers’ Michael Nylander also fired wide on the final shot.


DiPietro, back in goal after sustaining a concussion last week in Washington, made 33 saves.


The Islanders were swept by the Rangers in six games in 2003-04 and were 0-8-2 in their previous 10 meetings since a 3-1 victory at Madison Square Garden in November of 2002.


The Atlantic Division-leading Rangers had won their last three games, all at home and all with the rookie Lundqvist in goal. The 23-year-old Swede, starting in place of injured Kevin Weekes, beat Florida 4-0 on Monday night for his first NHL shutout.


Yashin scored on a two-man advantage in the first period and Satan added a power-play goal early in the third to give the Islanders a 2-0 lead. Jagr and Petr Prucha scored for the Rangers.


The Rangers tied it on a power play with 4:37 left in the third, with Prucha deflecting fellow rookie Fedor Tyutin’s shot from the point past DiPietro.


Yashin scored his third goal of the season on a 5-on-3 power play with 6:53 left in the first period, ending the Rangers’ string of successful penalty kills at 17 and also stopping their season-opening run of scoring first.


After Satan beat Lundqvist from the high slot to give the Islanders a 2-0 lead 28 seconds into the third, Jagr scored 14 seconds later. The goal was his seventh of the season and the first at even strength.


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