UNDATED (AP) — The New York Islanders, Minnesota Wild and Tampa Bay Lightning have opened their respective Stanley Cup playoff schedules with road wins.
Kyle Palmieri’s second goal of the day came in overtime to give the Isles a 4-3 comeback win at Pittsburgh. The Long Island native took a pass from JG Pageau near the goal line and gave the Isles their first win in five tries at the Steel City this year.
Pageau and Brock Nelson also scored to support rookie Ilya Sorokin, who turned back 39 shots.
Tristan Jarry made 37 saves in Pittsburgh’s 10th loss in its last 11 postseason games.
Joel Eriksson Ek scored 3:20 into overtime to send the Wild past the Golden Knights, 1-0 in Game 1 of the first-round series.
Ek was in the slot to send a shot that went off the skate of Golden Knights defender Alec Martinez and past Marc-Andre Fleury.
Wild goaltender Cam Talbot made 42 saves and did some of his best work while Minnesota was outshot, 19-5 in the first period.
Brayden Point scored twice in the last seven minutes to rally the Lightning past the Panthers, 5-4. Point provided the game-winner with 1:14 remaining to complete the comeback.
Nikita Kucherov finished with two goals and an assist for the Bolts, who trailed 2-1 and 4-3 before swiping home-ice advantage from the Cats.
Game 2 is Tuesday near Miami.
Meanwhile, the Canucks and Flames are playing out the string. In the lone regular-season game, Calgary squandered a four-goal lead in the third period before Elias Lindholm scored the overtime winner to send the Flames past the Canucks, 6-5.
