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NHL · Wednesday 7 October · Madison Square Garden
New York Rangers – New York Islanders 5:2: NHL, 07/10/2026
Key facts
Form, table position, scoring and head-to-head in one place
Form: up to the last 5 matches in all competitions, most recent on the left (W = win, D = draw, L = loss). Averages come from the league table; where there is none, from these recent matches.
Form · last 5
League position
Goals per game · season
Head to head · 2
wins – draws – wins
Match report
The match in a few sentences: score, scorers, table impact
The text is generated automatically from the match data and updates with it.
NHL: New York Rangers – New York Islanders 5:2 (7 October). New York Rangers won. Venue: Madison Square Garden.
By period: 1:0, 2:2, 2:0.
Goals: O. Bjorkstrand (New York Rangers) ×2; A. Lafreniere (New York Rangers) ×3; B. Horvat (New York Islanders); C. Ritchie (New York Islanders).
Table now: New York Rangers — 7th, 21 points from 18 matches; New York Islanders — 12th, 17 points from 16 matches.
Head to head (2): New York Rangers — 1 win, New York Islanders — 1.
Latvians in this match
Latvian players in this match and their contribution
The data source carries no player nationality, so for club matches we use the desk's list of Latvian players; for national-team matches, every Latvia player.
- 🇱🇻 Alberts SmitsNew York Rangers1 penalty
Score by period
Goals in each period
OT = overtime, SO = shoot-out.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Rangers | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| New York Islanders | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Events
Goals with assists and penalties by period
1st period
- 06'
🏒 O. Bjorkstrand1:0
assist: A. Lafreniere, S. Durzi
- 07'pen.
Interference
- 12'pen.
Fighting
- 12'pen.
Fighting
- 12'pen.
Holding
- 16'pen.
Slashing
2nd period
- 00'
🏒 A. Lafreniere2:0
assist: M. Zibanejad, V. Gavrikov
- 02'pen.
Hooking
- 02'
🏒 B. Horvat2:1
assist: M. Maccelli, B. Schenn · Power-play
- 04'
🏒 C. Ritchie2:2
assist: B. Schenn
- 12'pen.
Roughing
- 12'pen.
Roughing
- 15'pen.
Holding
- 17'
🏒 O. Bjorkstrand3:2
Power-play
3rd period
- 04'pen.
Holding
- 18'
🏒 A. Lafreniere4:2
assist: J. Miller, M. Zibanejad · Empty net
- 18'
🏒 A. Lafreniere5:2
assist: A. Fox, V. Gavrikov · Empty net
- 19'pen.
Roughing
- 19'pen.
Fighting
- 19'pen.
Fighting
Game leaders
Top performers in this game
Points (goals + assists)
- 14
- 22
- 32
- 42
- 52
- 61
Skaters
Each skater's contribution in this game
G = goals, A = assists, P = points (G + A), Pen. = penalties. Counted from match events; +/−, shots and time on ice are not available from the data source.
New York Rangers
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Lafreniere | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| O. Bjorkstrand | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| M. Zibanejad | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| V. Gavrikov | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| A. Fox | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Miller | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| S. Durzi | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| A. Smits | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| C. Beaudoin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| E. Tolvanen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| T. Kartye | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
New York Islanders
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. Schenn | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| B. Horvat | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| C. Ritchie | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| M. Maccelli | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| A. Pelech | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| C. Cizikas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| V. Eklund | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Goaltenders
Shots, saves and goals against
SOG = shots on goal, SV = saves, GA = goals against, SV% = SV / SOG, TOI = time on ice.
New York Rangers
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I. Shesterkin(W) | 19 | 17 | 2 | 89.5% |
New York Islanders
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Varlamov | 24 | 19 | 5 | 79.2% |
Team stats
Both teams' numbers side by side
- 24Shots on goal19
- 17Saves19
- 89%Save %86%
- 34Faceoffs won32
- 20Penalty minutes18
- 7Penalties6
- 1Power-play goals1
- 16%Power play %14%
- 85%Penalty kill %83%
- 0Short-handed goals0
Teams in the table
Both teams' positions in the league table
Full table on the competition page. Form: recent matches, most recent on the right.
| # | Team | P | W | OTW | OTL | L | Pts | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 21 | LLWWW | |
| 12 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 17 | WWLLL |
Form
Team leaders
Each team's best players this season
Points (goals + assists)
Goal scorers
Assists
Recent matches
Both teams' recent results in all competitions
H — home, A — away
Head to head
Previous meetings between the two teams
Only matches in our data source (usually recent seasons).