Game

Islanders at Rangers

Islanders 2, Rangers 1 · first star Matthew Schaefer (1 G, 0 A).

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

New York Islanders 2 at New York Rangers 1

Islanders NYI

2 FINAL 1

Rangers NYR

Thursday, January 29, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Madison Square Garden, New York

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Islanders	0	2	0	2	21
Rangers	0	0	1	1	21

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Islanders attack left, Rangers 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: NYI 21, NYR 21.

NYI in red NYR in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Islanders 21 shots on goal (2 goals, 15 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Rangers 21 shots on goal (1 goal, 10 missed, 18 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NYI SOG	NYI G	NYI ATT	NYR SOG	NYR G	NYR ATT
1st	6	0	15	6	0	19
2nd	5	2	15	8	0	16
3rd	10	0	17	7	1	14
Total	21	2	47	21	1	49

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NYI SOG	NYI G	NYR SOG	NYR G
Even strength	21	2	18	0
Power play	0	0	2	1
Short-handed	0	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Rangers took 51.0% of the shot attempts, and 48.2% of the 85 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 Rangers and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Islanders hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Islanders at Rangers
Period	NYR CF%	NYR FF%
1st	55.9	52.0
2nd	51.6	47.6
3rd	45.2	38.1
Game	51.0	46.3

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

17:18 Carson Soucy (4) Max Shabanov (12), Scott Mayfield (7) · snap 1–0
18:53 Matthew Schaefer (14) Bo Horvat (14) · wrist 2–0

3rd period

02:48 Mika Zibanejad (23) PP Vladislav Gavrikov (11), J.T. Miller (21) · slap 2–1

Three stars

Matthew Schaefer NYI · D #48 · 1 G, 0 A
Ilya Sorokin NYI · G #30 · 0 GA, .952 SV%
Mika Zibanejad NYR · C #93 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	19:50	NYR	J.T. Miller	tripping	2	Matthew Schaefer
2nd	03:47	NYI	Mathew Barzal	high sticking	2	Vladislav Gavrikov
2nd	08:29	NYR	Will Cuylle	tripping	2	Anthony Duclair
3rd	01:26	NYI	Ryan Pulock	boarding	2	Gabe Perreault
3rd	06:59	NYI	Tony DeAngelo	abuse of officials	2	—
3rd	12:08	NYR	Urho Vaakanainen	roughing	2	Marc Gatcomb
3rd	12:08	NYI	Marc Gatcomb	roughing	2	Urho Vaakanainen
3rd	19:41	NYR	Vincent Trocheck	holding	2	Anders Lee

Boxscore

New York Islanders

Islanders skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Carson Soucy #4	D	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	14:39
Matthew Schaefer #48	D	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	23:25
Bo Horvat #14	C	0	1	1	+1	2	1	2	0	40.9	19:55
Max Shabanov #49	R	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	07:59
Scott Mayfield #24	D	0	1	1	+1	0	1	1	0	0.0	15:33
Jean-Gabriel Pageau #44	C	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	76.9	16:01
Kyle MacLean #32	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	16.7	08:37
Marc Gatcomb #16	C	0	0	0	+1	1	5	1	2	0.0	09:32
Mathew Barzal #13	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0	18:25
Anders Lee #27	L	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	15:08
Anthony Duclair #11	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:58
Emil Heineman #51	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	18:37
Jonathan Drouin #29	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12.5	14:52
Ondrej Palat #81	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	14:43
Simon Holmstrom #10	R	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	18:31
Adam Pelech #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0.0	21:19
Ryan Pulock #6	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	4	2	0.0	21:15
Tony DeAngelo #77	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	2	0.0	20:09

Islanders goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ilya Sorokin #30	W	21	20	1	.952	18/18	1/2	60:00

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	0	5	0	0	0	60.0	23:50
J.T. Miller #8	C	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	2	80.0	22:08
Vladislav Gavrikov #44	D	0	1	1	-1	2	3	1	0	0.0	26:55
Matt Rempe #73	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0.0	07:45
Noah Laba #42	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	71.4	13:55
Sam Carrick #39	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	66.7	09:22
Vincent Trocheck #16	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	2	50.0	20:19
Alexis Lafrenière #13	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	17:54
Brennan Othmann #78	L	0	0	0	-1	0	5	0	0	0.0	11:02
Brett Berard #65	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	08:45
Will Cuylle #50	L	0	0	0	-1	0	6	1	2	50.0	17:15
Gabe Perreault #94	R	0	0	0	-1	5	0	0	0	0.0	18:22
Taylor Raddysh #14	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:35
Braden Schneider #4	D	0	0	0	-1	4	1	0	0	0.0	20:38
Matthew Robertson #29	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	19:37
Scott Morrow #60	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:47
Urho Vaakanainen #18	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	0.0	13:34
Will Borgen #17	D	0	0	0	-1	0	4	2	0	0.0	18:07

Rangers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jonathan Quick #32	L	21	19	2	.905	19/21	0/0	58:51

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.