Patrick Kane scores, Alex Lyon makes 29 saves and Red Wings edge Islanders 1-0

By Allan Kreda

Patrick Kane scored a first-period goal, Alex Lyon made 29 saves and the Detroit Red Wings held connected to borderline the New York Islanders 1-0 connected Tuesday night.

Kane scored his archetypal extremity of the play astatine 8:54 of the play with assists to Vladimir Tarasenko and J.T. Compher.

The 31-year-old Lyon made 8 saves successful the first, 14 stops successful the 2nd and 7 much successful the 3rd for his 4th vocation shutout.

The Red Wings won their 2nd straight, coming disconnected a 5-2 triumph astatine Nashville past Saturday.

The Islanders were unopen retired for the 3rd clip successful six games this season.

Ilya Sorokin made 10 stops for the Islanders.

Takeaways

The Islanders continued their inconsistent play. They mislaid their location opener 5-4 to Utah successful overtime, and bushed Montreal 4-3 successful a shootout astatine location connected Saturday. They were unopen retired astatine Dallas connected Oct. 12, downed Colorado 6-2 connected the roadworthy Oct. 14, past were blanked 1-0 successful overtime astatine St. Louis connected past Thursday.

Key moment

Lyon denied Islanders skipper Anders Lee with conscionable implicit 9 minutes near successful the 2nd play to support it a 1-0 game. Brock Nelson deed the crossbar down Lyon 2 minutes later. Lyon besides stopped Islanders guardant Simon Holmstrom midway done the 3rd play connected a point-blank precocious shot.

Key stats

Kane’s extremity was 472nd of his vocation — fifth-most among progressive NHL players down Alex Ovechkin, Sindey Crosby, Steven Stamkos and Evgeni Malkin. The 35-year-old guardant is successful his 2nd play with Detroit. His 1,287 points are 4th among progressive players.

Up next

Islanders: Visit New Jersey connected Friday night.

Red Wings: Host New Jersey connected Thursday night.