Jets beat Islanders 5-2 to start road trip

The Winnipeg Jets beat the New York Islanders 5-2 on Monday afternoon at UBS Arena, handing the Islanders their third straight loss and giving Winnipeg a victory on the opening game of their first road trip of the 2025-26 season. The game began at 1 p.m. Eastern and featured a fast start by the Jets that the Islanders were unable to overcome.

Morgan Barron opened the scoring by converting a rush off a Cole Koepke feed, and Nino Niederreiter extended the lead on a power-play finish after the Islanders failed to clear the blue paint. New York cut into the deficit when Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored early in the second period, but Logan Stanley responded just 14 seconds later to restore Winnipeg’s two-goal cushion. A turnover in the Islanders’ defensive zone soon led to another Jets goal, and Mark Scheifele added an empty-netter late to seal the 5-2 final. Emil Heineman scored New York’s second goal. The Islanders went 0-for-5 on the power play.

Ilya Sorokin, New York’s starting goaltender, struggled at times, allowing a goal to trickle through his pad on Stanley’s strike. Defenseman Alexander Romanov also had a difficult afternoon, with two turnovers highlighted in the sequence that...