Jordan Eberle scored two goals to lead the Islanders to a 6-3 victory. The Devils lost to the Panthers, 8-3, despite scoring the first two goals.
The Islanders defeated the host Penguins, 6-3, on Tuesday night, but the focus was on the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
The Penguins held a ceremony before the game to honor the victims of Saturday’s shooting in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. It included an 11-second moment of silence in memory of the 11 people slain.
Penguins players wore a special patch with the words Stronger than Hate on it. The patch incorporated the team logo and the Star of David, and the Islanders wore a similar decal on their helmets.
A black-and-white silhouette of the city that also had Stronger than Hate on it flashed on the scoreboard during the pregame ceremony, while a video tribute played before the face-off. A ceremonial puck drop featured the Pittsburgh police chief, Scott Schubert, along with Anthony Burke and Mike Smigda, officers wounded in the attack.
Jordan Eberle scored twice in the second period to help the Islanders pull away. He had his second and third goals for the Islanders, who swept a three-game trip.
Brock Nelson scored his sixth of the season and fifth goal in five games, and Tom Kuhnhackl, who won two Stanley Cups in Pittsburgh, scored his first as an Islander. Andrew Ladd and Matt Martin also scored for the Islanders, which has won four of six after starting the season 2-3. The Islanders are playing eight of their first 11 games on the road for the first time in team history.
Robin Lehner stopped 23 of 25 shots, but he was taken out after the second period. Thomas Greiss stopped 12 shots. No reason was immediately given for the change.
Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Dominik Simon scored for Pittsburgh, which had won four in a row. The Penguins outscored the opposition, 23-6, during a perfect four-game Canadian trip.
Crosby has six goals and nine points in his last four games after going his first six games without a goal. Malkin has an eight-game point streak.
Matt Murray stopped five of nine shots before he was pulled after Eberle’s power-play goal. Casey DeSmith made 14 saves in relief.
Ladd and Nelson staked the Islanders to an early lead in the first, but Simon and Crosby responded to tie it.
The Islanders broke it open with three second-period goals in 4 minutes 17 seconds.
Martin finished a one-timer from Casey Cizikas, and Eberle scored the next two for a 5-2 lead.
LIGHTNING 8, DEVILS 3 Brayden Point had a career-high five points with a goal and four assists, defenseman Braydon Coburn scored twice and host Tampa Bay rallied from an early two-goal deficit to rout the Devils 8-3.
Steven Stamkos got his 350th career goal and added two assists the Lightning, who were coming off a 3-1-1 trip. Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist, and Tyler Johnson and Ryan McDonagh had the other Lightning goals. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves.
Miles Wood, Travis Zajac and Kyle Palmieri scored for the Devils, who started a seven-game trip. Keith Kinkaid stopped 31 of 38 shots before being replaced five minutes into the third period by Cory Schneider, who allowed a goal on six shots in his first game after off-season hip surgery.
After Wood and Zajac scored in the opening 5:04, Coburn, ending a 38-game goal drought, tied it at 2-2 with first-period scores at 7:30 and 13:30.
