3 Takeaways: Islanders Beat Blue Jackets 4-3 in Comeback Win

Zach Parise scored the OT winner 39 seconds into the extra frame on Saturday night, as the New York Islanders scored a 4-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets at UBS Arena.
Parise's goal capped another Islanders comeback, as the Isles rallied out of three separate one-goal deficits. Brock Nelson scored a pair of second period goals, while Scott Mayfield tied the score 3-3 with 7:09 to play in the third period.

"There's not a lot of give up on our end," Parise said. "We were able to keep tying it up and getting back into the game a big late goal by Scott and we were able to get out here with another come from mine when."
Cole Sillinger (PPG), Emil Bemstrom and Marcus Bjork scored for the Blue Jackets. Ilya Sorokin stopped 26-of-29 shots in the win, while Joonas Korpisalo stopped 41-of-45 shots in the OT loss.

ISLANDERS RESILIENT AGAIN:

The Columbus Blue Jackets may have been beat up, especially on the blue line, but they gave the Islanders all they could handle on Saturday night.
Columbus led 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2, forcing the Islanders to play catch up all night, culminating in another comeback win for a team whose calling card is becoming its resiliency.
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"Everybody here has a belief that we can kind of come back at any situation," Nelson said. "We've done a good job sticking with it… That's a good character win."
The Islanders outshot the Blue Jackets 45-29 on Saturday night, and had 16 high danger chances to Columbus' 12 at five-on-five, per Natural Stat Trick. They didn't lead until Parise's overtime winner, but instead of getting frustrated, they dug in each time they fell behind.
Nelson's first goal came 4:16 after Sillinger opened the scoring. Columbus took the lead less than three minutes later, but Nelson ensured the Islanders went into the second intermission in a tie game. When Bjork made it 3-2 midway through the third, Mayfield answered less than four minutes later, taking a nifty feed from Mathew Barzal and backhanding his fourth of the season past Korpisalo at 12:51.
The Islanders capped the comeback in overtime, as JG Pageau found Zach Parise on an odd-man rush in open ice. The veteran, who had previously been mauled by Patrik Laine, leading to a delayed penalty, buried his ninth career OT winner and first as an Islander.
Saturday's game marks the Islanders fourth dramatic comeback win in the past two weeks. They erased a 3-0 deficit in a 5-4 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Oct. 29, then staged a pair of 3-1 comebacks on consecutive nights to the Calgary Flames and New York Rangers.
This season the Islanders have five wins when allowing the first goal, and have trailed in six of their 10 wins this season.
"We've done that over the course of a couple games now," said Mayfield. "The way we can fight back the way there's no give up in this room, obviously. So it's nice to do again, I think we want to start playing with the lead a little bit more. We're good when we have a lead. and we've been getting we haven't had it."

NELSON NETS TWO GOALS:

Parise played the hero on Saturday night, but Brock Nelson laid the foundation for the Islanders win with a pair of goals in the victory.
Nelson scored the Islanders first and second tallies of the evening. On his first goal, the Islanders center was initially denied off the rush by Korpisalo, but circled the net and was in great position to redirect a slap pass from Mayfield on a backdoor feed.
Nelson's goal ended the Islanders shutout streak at 92:57 and was a just reward for the Islanders center after his partial breakaway was stopped by Korpisalo in the first period.
The Warroad, MN, native scored his second goal of the period to tie the score again at two. Sebastian Aho skated the puck around the Columbus' net and put a centering feed off Korpisalo's pads right to Nelson on the far side of the net where the 31-year-old was ready to pounce.

"Being on the half wall helps on the power play for a couple more looks," Nelson said. "Our line is doing a pretty good job generating, getting some good areas to find some open looks."
Nelson was active all game for the Islanders, setting a new career-high - and tying the NHL season high - with 10 shots on goal, beating his previous personal record of eight. Nelson finished the game with 14 total attempts in 17:26 of ice time and won eight of his 11 draws.
"I thought he was moving his feet, when he skates, he can skate and he did tonight," Head Coach Lane Lambert said. "He didn't pass up any shots. And he got rewarded for it. I thought he played really well."
Nelson leads the Islanders with 17 points this season (8G, 9A) and his eight goals are tied with Anders Lee for the team lead.

PENALTY KILL ALLOWS ANOTHER:

The Blue Jackets struck first, as Cole Sillinger, son of former Islander - among other teams - Mike Sillinger buried a power-play goal at 3:09 of the second period. Ilya Sorokin was able to stop Yegor Chinakov's point shot, but Sillinger was able to corral the rebound and sweep it around the Islanders netminder at the side of the net.
The goal came with seven seconds left in Alex Romanov's holding penalty, but added to the downward trend for the Islanders penalty kill. Sillinger's power-play goal marked the eighth the Islanders had given up in their last eight games.
"Everybody does their best to clear pucks and get pucks out and some and right now we're struggling at times in that area," Lambert said. "There's no question that we do not want to give up powerplay goals like this."
The Islanders are 15-for-23 on the penalty kill over past eight games after going 28-for-28 to open the season.

NEXT GAME:

The Islanders kick off a four-game road trip on Monday night against the Ottawa Senators at 5:30 p.m.