“He really cranked it up,” New York coach Peter Laviolette said of Trocheck. Just 19 seconds later, with the Rangers back on a power play, Trocheck redirected Mika Zibanejad’s pass past Lankinen to tie the score. Kreider drew New York back within a goal at 8:52, just after that power play expired. “Unfortunately, a couple of lack of details in critical moments kind of cost us the hockey game.” “I thought we played pretty well, carried the play,” Nashville coach Andrew Brunette said. Entering Saturday, the Islanders’ Simon Holmstrom and Colorado’s Logan O’Connor were tied for the NHL lead with three short-handed goals. It gave him all three of Nashville’s short-handed goals this season. Sissons made it 3-1 at 7:28 of the second, scoring on a short-handed breakaway. Ryan O’Reilly had a goal and an assist, and Roman Josi and Colton Sissons also scored for Nashville, who have lost consecutive games after winning six straight.
“We didn’t get off to a good start, but found a way to calm ourselves down in between (the first two) periods and found a way to pick our game back up and played a really good second,” Trouba said.
