‘...and he’s calm and poised in the net and he battles hard’

Nick Leddy scored in the 14th round of the shootout and the New York Islanders scratched out a 3-2 victory at Honda Center to end the longest one played by the Anaheim Ducks in franchise history Tuesday night.
The Islanders answered four successful Ducks tries each time and then got another opportunity to win it after Ducks defenseman Kevin Bieksa fired wide on a slap shot. Leddy, a big-minute defenseman, went in on Ducks goalie Jonathan Bernier and beat him with a forehand move.
Some fine work by Bernier and Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss was offset by good offensive moves from both teams that got pucks by them. The 30-year-old goalie is 3-3 with a .918 save percentage this season.
“A lot of guys play to their personalities,” coach Jack Capuano said.
“And he’s calm and poised in the net and he battles hard.”
Rickard Rakell, Cam Fowler, Ondrej Kase and Shea Theodore all scored for the Ducks, but the Islanders’ John Tavares, Ryan Strome, Nikolay Kulemin and Thomas Hickey respectively answered.
Hickey’s goal was questioned by the Ducks (9-7-4), who dropped their second straight after opening a five-game homestand with two wins.
Bernier stretched out his left pad to trap Hickey’s shot but the Islanders defenseman managed to push that and the puck over the line.
After a review, Hickey was determined to have not interfered with Bernier by pushing his pad over the goal line. The call left Ducks coach Randy Carlyle incensed as he got an explanation from referees Gord Dwyer and Dean Morton.
Bernier made 32 saves in regulation and overtime, but Greiss topped him with 39 stops in the 41 shots he faced.
The Ducks worked through several near-misses. Kase, playing in just his fourth NHL game, hit the post twice in attempts for his first goal.
Ryan Kesler turned Islanders defenseman Travis Hamonic inside out but also clipped the iron with a hard wrist shot.
But the Ducks squeezed out one to get to the extra session. Corey Perry came down the right wing with Rakell on an odd-man rush, with Perry sliding a pass to the new finisher. Rakell went to his knees to put a one-time shot past Greiss for a 2-2 tie at 9:08 of the third.
It gave Rakell goals in three straight games and seven in just 11 games played, putting him one off Kesler’s team lead. The teams battled through a chance-filled overtime, with both Greiss and Bernier shining.
The Islanders took a 2-1 lead into the first intermission on the strength of Tavares and linemate Josh Bailey.
Tavares provided an effective screen on defenseman Adam Pelech’s successful point shot, with Bailey getting a secondary assist on the scoring play.
Bailey then took a cross-ice pass from Tavares on the power play and drilled a one-time shot past Bernier as Sami Vatanen sat in the penalty box for a tripping infraction. Vatanen would not return to the game, with the Ducks saying that he was dealing with an illness.
Ryan Getzlaf knows what Tavares is all about. The two teamed with Perry to form an effective line for Canada in its winning effort at the World Cup of Hockey back in September.
“He’s great,” Getzlaf said. “Johnny’s a world-class player. Great guy. Obviously we had a little bit of chemistry going by the end of that thing. It was a pleasure to play with him.”
Fowler put the Ducks up just 64 seconds into the contest when he cashed in an early hooking penalty by Islanders rookie Anthony Beauvillier, ripping in his sixth goal of the season on the power play to top the five he had in all of 2015-16.

Blues 4 Bruins 2
The St. Louis Blues snapped a three-game road losing streak, twice coming from behind to defeat the Boston Bruins 4-2 on Tuesday night.
Jori Lehtera scored two goals and Robert Bortuzzo and Paul Stastny scored second-period goals 2:12 apart for the Blues.
Jake Allen to win for the eighth time in their last nine visits to TD Garden. Jori Lehtera, who scored the Blues’ first goal, scored into an empty net with 1:16 left to salt the game away for St. Louis - his second and third goals of the season. David Backes and Dominic Moore scored for the
Bruins.

Senators 4 Canadiens 3
Erik Karlsson scored the game-winning goal to lift Ottawa over Montreal at the Bell Centre. Mike Hoffman, Derick Brassard and Mike Stone also scored for the Senators, who have won both meetings against the Canadiens so far.
Shea Weber, Alexander Radulov and Alex Galchenyuk scored for the Canadiens, who lost for the first time in regulation at home. Andrei Markov recorded three assists.

Flyers 3 Panthers 1
Steve Mason and struggling Philadelphia defense turned things around, shutting down Florida at the BB&T Center.
The Flyers entered the game last in the NHL at 3.42 goals allowed per game before Mason made 38 saves. Wayne Simmonds, Dale Weise and Nick Cousins scored. Reilly Smith’s goal with 1:51 left in the third ruined Mason’s shutout bid.

Hurricanes 2 Maple Leafs 1
Viktor Stalberg scored a short-handed goal in the second period to break a tie, and Carolina posted a victory over Toronto to extend its winning streak to five games.
Jeff Skinner scored a power-play goal for the Hurricanes in the first period to tie the game. Jake Gardiner’s goal gave the Maple Leafs a first-period
lead.
Frederik Andersen made 27 saves for Toronto, which lost its second game in a row.