Game

Panthers at Islanders

Islanders 5, Panthers 4 · first star Matthew Schaefer (2 G, 1 A).

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

Florida Panthers 4 at New York Islanders 5

Panthers FLA

4 FINAL 5

Islanders NYI

Sunday, March 1, 2026 · 6:30 PM ET · UBS Arena, Elmont · TV ESPN · SN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Panthers	2	1	1	4	33
Islanders	1	2	2	5	26

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Panthers 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: FLA 33, NYI 26.

FLA in red NYI in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Panthers 33 shots on goal (4 goals, 27 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Islanders 26 shots on goal (5 goals, 13 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	FLA SOG	FLA G	FLA ATT	NYI SOG	NYI G	NYI ATT
1st	8	2	26	7	1	14
2nd	8	1	21	6	2	18
3rd	17	1	31	13	2	21
Total	33	4	78	26	5	53

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	FLA SOG	FLA G	NYI SOG	NYI G
Even strength	29	3	26	5
Power play	4	1	0	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Panthers took 59.5% of the shot attempts, and 57.6% of the 118 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 Panthers hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Panthers at Islanders
Period	NYI CF%	NYI FF%
1st	35.0	35.7
2nd	46.1	44.4
3rd	40.4	38.6
Game	40.5	39.4

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

Scoring summary

1st period

03:44 Sandis Vilmanis (3) A.J. Greer (11), Sergei Bobrovsky (2) · backhand 1–0
14:54 Sam Bennett (21) PP Aaron Ekblad (19), Matthew Tkachuk (6) · snap 2–0
18:01 Matthew Schaefer (19) Ryan Pulock (21), Mathew Barzal (38) · slap 2–1

2nd period

07:28 Carson Soucy (5) Simon Holmstrom (19), Tony DeAngelo (23) · snap 2–2
12:04 Sam Bennett (22) Matthew Tkachuk (7) · backhand 3–2
17:14 Bo Horvat (25) Matthew Schaefer (24) · snap 3–3

3rd period

10:29 Matthew Schaefer (20) Ondrej Palat (9) · snap 3–4
18:02 Sam Reinhart (28) Aaron Ekblad (20), Matthew Tkachuk (8) · snap 4–4
19:28 Anders Lee (14) Tony DeAngelo (24), Adam Pelech (8) · wrist 4–5

Three stars

Matthew Schaefer NYI · D #48 · 2 G, 1 A
Anders Lee NYI · L #27 · 1 G, 0 A
Sam Bennett FLA · C #9 · 2 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	14:48	NYI	Ryan Pulock	hooking	2	Matthew Tkachuk
2nd	06:04	FLA	Donovan Sebrango	holding	2	Calum Ritchie
2nd	06:28	NYI	Matthew Schaefer	interference	2	Anton Lundell
3rd	00:33	NYI	Calum Ritchie	slashing	2	Eetu Luostarinen

Boxscore

Florida Panthers

Panthers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Matthew Tkachuk #19	L	0	3	3	-1	3	1	1	0	0.0	19:16
Sam Bennett #9	C	2	0	2	-1	4	0	0	0	65.0	19:58
Aaron Ekblad #5	D	0	2	2	+1	1	2	1	0	0.0	26:24
Sam Reinhart #13	C	1	0	1	-1	4	1	0	0	0.0	20:34
Sandis Vilmanis #95	L	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	07:45
A.J. Greer #10	L	0	1	1	+1	1	4	0	0	0.0	07:57
Anton Lundell #15	C	0	0	0	+1	0	3	0	0	57.1	17:30
Carter Verhaeghe #23	C	0	0	0	-2	3	0	1	0	0.0	17:14
Eetu Luostarinen #27	C	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	100.0	15:24
Evan Rodrigues #17	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	1	0	35.7	17:11
Jesper Boqvist #70	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	1	0	25.0	07:44
Brad Marchand #63	L	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:14
Mackie Samoskevich #11	R	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	100.0	15:43
Dmitry Kulikov #7	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	0	0.0	20:27
Donovan Sebrango #6	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0.0	10:29
Gustav Forsling #42	D	0	0	0	-2	3	1	2	0	0.0	26:11
Jeff Petry #2	D	0	0	0	-1	1	3	2	0	0.0	09:50
Niko Mikkola #77	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	0.0	23:03

Panthers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Sergei Bobrovsky #72	L	26	21	5	.808	21/26	0/0	59:06

New York Islanders

Islanders skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Matthew Schaefer #48	D	2	1	3	+4	5	0	4	2	0.0	23:17
Tony DeAngelo #77	D	0	2	2	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	21:34
Bo Horvat #14	C	1	0	1	+1	3	1	2	0	55.0	20:24
Anders Lee #27	L	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	15:00
Carson Soucy #4	D	1	0	1	+1	1	1	3	0	0.0	14:57
Mathew Barzal #13	C	0	1	1	+2	5	2	1	0	0.0	17:45
Ondrej Palat #81	L	0	1	1	+2	2	2	1	0	0.0	15:16
Simon Holmstrom #10	R	0	1	1	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	16:17
Adam Pelech #3	D	0	1	1	-2	0	2	2	0	0.0	20:58
Ryan Pulock #6	D	0	1	1	+3	0	1	2	2	0.0	22:12
Calum Ritchie #64	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	38.5	13:20
Casey Cizikas #53	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	61.5	11:55
Jean-Gabriel Pageau #44	C	0	0	0	+2	2	0	0	0	38.9	16:28
Kyle MacLean #32	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:47
Marc Gatcomb #16	C	0	0	0	-1	0	4	1	0	0.0	10:45
Anthony Duclair #11	L	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	13:22
Emil Heineman #51	L	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	100.0	14:28
Scott Mayfield #24	D	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	0.0	17:09

Islanders goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
David Rittich #33	W	33	29	4	.879	26/29	3/4	60:00

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.