Islanders slip past Canucks thanks to Kyle Palmieri’s two-goal night

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Pete DeBoer’s Islanders secured a 3-2 victory over the Canucks on Tuesday night, thanks to Kyle Palmieri scoring two goals. Despite facing challenges in the second period when Vancouver cut their lead to one goal, the Islanders managed to regain control and win decisively in the third period. This performance helped the team avoid playing down to their opponent’s level, a trend that has been positive so far this season.
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Sears, E. (2026, October 14). Islanders slip past Canucks thanks to Kyle Palmieri’s two-goal night. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/13/sports/islanders-beat-canucks-thanks-to-kyle-palmieris-two-goal-night/

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🔮 Which, if DeBoer can turn it into a hallmark, will be critical to keeping the Islanders in the playoff race.
🔮 Jeff Schenn, their father, made the trip down to Long Island for the game, though the boys’ mother, Rita, is still recovering from eye surgery and couldn’t travel.
🔮 That resulted in Tony DeAngelo’s goal that made it 2-1, while Matthew Schaefer’s that made it 3-2 at 11:41 of the period may have been more about the 19-year-old’s supreme skill.
🔮 “They’ve been maybe our most consistent line,” DeBoer said of the trio that currently includes Matias Maccelli and Casey Cizikas in addition to Palat.
🔮 If the Islanders want to take up the maxim of never letting a crisis go to waste, there is an opportunity to parlay Alexander Romanov’s ACL tear into a star defenseman, should general manager Mathieu Darche be willing to take considerable risk to get there.
🔮 The revamped pairs, with Logan Stanley to Matthew Schaefer’s left, Scott Mayfield inserted into the lineup on Tony DeAngelo’s right and the Adam Pelech-Ryan Pulock duo reunited for the first time since last November, put in a good night of work against a Chicago side that is now 1-4-0 as its long rebuild trudges on.
🔮 Coach Pete DeBoer kept Matthew Schaefer on the right and inserted Scott Mayfield into the lineup for Thursday’s match against the Blackhawks at UBS, moving Logan Stanley to the top pair alongside Schaefer and Tony DeAngelo to his off side on Mayfield’s left.
🔮 Islanders general manager Mathieu Darche said last week that Barzal would likely only need a few practices with the team once he was back on the ice, which could in theory slate him for a return as soon as next week.
🔮 He will undergo surgery to repair the injury and miss 6-8 months.
🔮 If Romanov misses time, the immediate question is whether the Islanders will look to call up Isaiah George, who entered camp as a likely third-pair defenseman before losing the job, or Kashawn Aitcheson, the top prospect who likely outplayed George in camp.
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Blackhawks Canucks Islanders Vancouver

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Islanders ORG · 12× Canucks ORG · 3× Schaefer PERSON · 3× DeBoer PERSON · 2× Emil Heineman PERSON · 2× Kyle Palmieri PERSON · 2× Maccelli PERSON · 2× Palmieri PERSON · 2× Tony DeAngelo PERSON · 2× Pete DeBoer’s PERSON · 1×

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After the top line had gone scoreless through the season’s first five games, getting two goals from it at five-on-five — the second of which came after Matias Maccelli swapped places with Emil Heineman amid a superb evening from No. 63 — is just what the Islanders needed.
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🔮 Which, if DeBoer can turn it into a hallmark, will be critical to keeping the Islanders in the playoff race.
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Islanders slip past Canucks thanks to Kyle Palmieri’s two-goal night · assertive framing

Claims (22 extracted, 1 hedged)

Say this for Pete DeBoer’s Islanders: they are not playing down to their opposition. asserted
they → say → opposition
It wasn’t as easy as their win over the Blackhawks that started this homestand, but the Islanders ended it by taking care of business with a 3-2 victory over the Canucks on Tuesday night, with a pair of goals from Kyle Palmieri pulling them back to .500. asserted
pair → start → .500
DeBoer’s team played structured and effective hockey, surviving a shaky second period to regain control in the decisive third. asserted
team → play → third
That is as it should be against Vancouver, which has won just two of its first eight games and looks set for a miserable season. asserted
which → win → season
A hallmark of Islanders teams in recent years, though, has been struggling to put away or routinely beat teams just like that. asserted
hallmark → struggle → that
The Islanders, for better or worse, had a tendency to play to their opponent’s level. asserted
Islanders → have → level
At least so far this year — and this is where the obligatory ‘it’s early’ caveat goes — that hasn’t been the case. asserted
that → ’ → ?
Which, if DeBoer can turn it into a hallmark, will be critical to keeping the Islanders in the playoff race. asserted
DeBoer → turn → race
Max Sasson seemed to zap the Islanders’ momentum at 7:52 of the second, cutting a 2-0 lead in half by blasting a rolling puck past Ilya Sorokin. asserted
Sasson → seem → Sorokin
Suddenly, the Islanders were losing battles, they were on their heels and you could feel the equalizer coming as soon as Kyle Palmieri tripped Liam Ohrgren late in the second. Not only did Brock Boeser tied it up with a one-timer from the slot, but the Islanders ended the second with another needless penalty after Tony DeAngelo took exception to a Sasson check that came after the horn. uncertain
that → lose → horn
It was a gut check moment for a team whose habit in the past would have been to let things spiral from there. asserted
things → let → past
Instead, they killed off DeAngelo’s penalty and — sparked, unsurprisingly, by Matthew Schaefer — found their game again. asserted
they → kill → game
Twice in the third period’s first six minutes, Schaefer’s play with the puck led to extended pressure in the Canucks’ zone. asserted
play → lead → zone
On the second of those, after Schaefer had two shots saved, Palmieri got one to go for his second goal of the evening. asserted
Palmieri → have → evening
After the top line had gone scoreless through the season’s first five games, getting two goals from it at five-on-five — the second of which came after Matias Maccelli swapped places with Emil Heineman amid a superb evening from No. 63 — is just what the Islanders needed. asserted
Islanders → go → what
Right when the Canucks started to push with a few minutes to go, and looked ready to pull Leevi Merilainen, Emil Heineman drew a penalty on Zeev Buium that kept the Islanders in the driver’s seat when they should have been frantically defending at five-on-six. asserted
they → start → six
Maccelli had driven play early in the night as part of a fourth line that with Casey Cizikas and Simon Holmstrom — who moved down from the third line, swapping places with Ondrej Palat. asserted
who → drive → Palat
At 15:50 of a dominant first for the Islanders, Maccelli ripped one from the left circle for the 2-0 goal, the feed coming from Schaefer. asserted
feed → rip → Schaefer
That was just 53 seconds after the Islanders had scored first on Kyle Palmieri’s tip-in of Matt Kessel’s point shot. asserted
Islanders → score → shot
Kessel was suiting up for the first time this season, having been inserted into the lineup for Scott Mayfield and playing on the left of the third pair, allowing Tony DeAngelo to move back to his natural right side. asserted
DeAngelo → suit → side
Palmieri’s goal was his first since Nov. 18, 2025, just 10 days before he tore his ACL. asserted
he → tear → ACL
Fitting, then, that he ended with the game-winner too. asserted
he → end → winner
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