Game

Rangers at Islanders

Islanders 5, Rangers 2 · first star Ondrej Palat (1 G, 1 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

New York Rangers 2 at New York Islanders 5

Rangers NYR

2 FINAL 5

Islanders NYI

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · UBS Arena, Elmont

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Rangers	1	1	0	2	16
Islanders	2	3	0	5	36

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Rangers attack left, Islanders attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: NYR 16, NYI 36.

NYR in red NYI in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Rangers 16 shots on goal (2 goals, 12 missed, 16 blocked) attacking left; Islanders 36 shots on goal (5 goals, 12 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NYR SOG	NYR G	NYR ATT	NYI SOG	NYI G	NYI ATT
1st	7	1	16	14	2	26
2nd	6	1	13	14	3	21
3rd	3	0	15	8	0	15
Total	16	2	44	36	5	62

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NYR SOG	NYR G	NYI SOG	NYI G
Even strength	11	1	28	3
Power play	5	1	8	2
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Islanders took 58.5% of the shot attempts, and 55.6% of the 81 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Islanders and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Rangers hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Rangers at Islanders
Period	NYI CF%	NYI FF%
1st	61.9	63.3
2nd	61.8	65.4
3rd	50.0	60.0
Game	58.5	63.2

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

14:59 Ondrej Palat (5) PP Simon Holmstrom (13), Matthew Schaefer (22) · snap 0–1
16:10 Simon Holmstrom (13) Tony DeAngelo (19), Jean-Gabriel Pageau (12) · tip-in 0–2
18:04 Mika Zibanejad (22) PP J.T. Miller (20), Vladislav Gavrikov (10) · snap 1–2

2nd period

13:12 Mathew Barzal (13) PP Simon Holmstrom (14), Bo Horvat (13) · snap 1–3
13:59 Jean-Gabriel Pageau (11) Marc Gatcomb (2), Kyle MacLean (3) · backhand 1–4
15:42 Taylor Raddysh (8) Noah Laba (10), Will Borgen (3) · wrist 2–4
19:12 Emil Heineman (15) Adam Pelech (6), Ondrej Palat (7) · snap 2–5

Three stars

Ondrej Palat NYI · L #81 · 1 G, 1 A
Simon Holmstrom NYI · R #10 · 1 G, 2 A
Jean-Gabriel Pageau NYI · C #44 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	11:33	NYR	Alexis Lafrenière	slashing	2	Mathew Barzal
1st	11:42	NYI	Bo Horvat	interference	2	Mika Zibanejad
1st	13:02	NYR	Vincent Trocheck	slashing	2	Simon Holmstrom
1st	17:33	NYI	Jonathan Drouin	high sticking	2	Vincent Trocheck
2nd	09:41	NYR	Sam Carrick	tripping	2	Kyle MacLean
2nd	09:41	NYR	Sam Carrick	cross checking	2	Mathew Barzal
2nd	09:41	NYR	Matt Rempe	boarding	2	Marc Gatcomb
3rd	07:28	NYI	Bo Horvat	tripping	2	Alexis Lafrenière

Boxscore

New York Rangers

Rangers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Mika Zibanejad #93	C	1	0	1	-1	2	0	0	0	37.5	21:39
Taylor Raddysh #14	R	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	13:28
J.T. Miller #8	C	0	1	1	-1	1	6	0	0	25.0	19:46
Noah Laba #42	C	0	1	1	0	0	4	1	0	14.3	14:25
Vladislav Gavrikov #44	D	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	24:44
Will Borgen #17	D	0	1	1	-1	0	1	2	0	0.0	20:38
Jonny Brodzinski #22	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	100.0	10:10
Matt Rempe #73	C	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	0.0	09:49
Sam Carrick #39	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	4	80.0	09:50
Vincent Trocheck #16	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	2	64.3	15:50
Alexis Lafrenière #13	L	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	2	0.0	13:27
Brennan Othmann #78	L	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0.0	13:48
Will Cuylle #50	L	0	0	0	-1	1	4	0	0	0.0	14:18
Gabe Perreault #94	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	16:17
Braden Schneider #4	D	0	0	0	0	3	3	1	0	0.0	22:52
Matthew Robertson #29	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	2	0	0.0	22:14
Scott Morrow #60	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:23
Urho Vaakanainen #18	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	13:54

Rangers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Spencer Martin #41	L	36	31	5	.861	25/28	6/8	60:00

New York Islanders

Islanders skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Simon Holmstrom #10	R	1	2	3	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:53
Jean-Gabriel Pageau #44	C	1	1	2	+2	3	3	1	0	66.7	13:31
Ondrej Palat #81	L	1	1	2	+1	2	2	1	0	0.0	11:53
Mathew Barzal #13	C	1	0	1	-1	5	0	3	0	42.9	20:09
Emil Heineman #51	L	1	0	1	+1	4	4	0	0	0.0	17:10
Bo Horvat #14	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	4	66.7	17:07
Kyle MacLean #32	C	0	1	1	+1	0	2	1	0	0.0	12:12
Marc Gatcomb #16	C	0	1	1	+1	1	3	1	0	0.0	11:03
Adam Pelech #3	D	0	1	1	+2	2	0	1	0	0.0	17:29
Matthew Schaefer #48	D	0	1	1	0	3	2	3	0	0.0	24:36
Tony DeAngelo #77	D	0	1	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	19:39
Casey Cizikas #53	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	45.5	13:07
Anders Lee #27	L	0	0	0	+1	5	1	2	0	100.0	15:39
Anthony Duclair #11	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	16:40
Jonathan Drouin #29	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	2	57.1	16:23
Carson Soucy #4	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0.0	16:38
Ryan Pulock #6	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	19:53
Scott Mayfield #24	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0.0	17:05

Islanders goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
David Rittich #33	W	16	14	2	.875	10/11	4/5	59:22

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.