Overview
- Bo Horvat scored 55 seconds into the second period and Anthony Duclair made it 2-0 at 5:30 of the third.
- Dominic James pulled Tampa Bay within one at 16:26 of the third before a sustained 6-on-5 push.
- Ilya Sorokin turned aside a flurry of late chances, including during the extra-attacker sequence, with teammates blocking key shots.
- Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 21 shots as his personal six-game winning run ended in the loss.
- New York improved to 2-3-1 on its seven-game homestand, while Tampa Bay played without defenseman Victor Hedman and the Islanders missed multiple empty-net bids before closing it out.