Ilya Sorokin makes 23 saves, Gatcomb gets 1st NHL goal as Islanders top Flyers 3-0 for 6th straight win

Ilya Sorokin made 23 saves for his 3rd shutout of the season, Marc Gatcomb scored his archetypal NHL extremity and the New York Islanders won their sixth consecutive crippled with a 3-0 triumph implicit the Philadelphia Flyers connected Thursday night.

Simon Holmstrom and Kyle Palmieri besides scored for the Islanders, who leapfrogged the Flyers and the idle New York Rangers successful the Metropolitan Division standings and are 3 points retired of a wild-card spot.

It was the 21st vocation shutout for Sorokin, who won his 5th consecutive crippled and has allowed conscionable 4 goals successful that span. New York has outscored opponents 21-7 during its streak.

The Flyers were blanked for the 2nd consecutive game. Ivan Fedotov made 25 saves for Philadelphia.

Takeaways
Islanders: New York has been relying connected its defence and goaltending during its January resurgence. The Islanders person held their opponents to 2 goals oregon less successful 10 of 12 games this month.

Flyers: Philadelphia’s discourtesy has been scuffling arsenic they scored 2 goals oregon less for the 5th clip successful the past six games.

Key moment
Flyers rookie Matvei Michkov thought helium had a power-play extremity to enactment the Flyers up successful the archetypal period, but it was overturned erstwhile New York manager Patrick Roy challenged the play for goaltender interference. It was determined Morgan Frost grazed Sorokin and impeded his quality to marque a save.

Michkov aboriginal got into a screaming lucifer connected the seat with manager John Tortorella pursuing a antiaircraft breakdown. Michkov was benched for the last 8 minutes of the 2nd play and the full 3rd period.

Key stat
Tortorella coached successful his 1,600th game, the seventh successful NHL past to scope that milestone and the archetypal American-born manager to bash so.

Up Next
Islanders: Travel to Tampa Bay connected Saturday.

Flyers: Off until Sunday erstwhile they sojourn Colorado.