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BOSTON (AP) — Ryan Donato knew he couldn’t afford to let a golden opportunity to get himself back into the fold pass him by.Donato Tyler Seguin Jersey , recalled Wednesday after a demotion to Providence of the AHL, grabbed the puck and charged toward the net on the Boston Bruins‘ fourth attempt in a shootout Thursday night.The 22-year-old left wing deked right and tucked the puck past New York Islanders goalie Robin Lehner to give Boston a 2-1 win.Donato hopes that will be enough to earn himself another extended look with the big club.“It was big. You want to make sure you have an immediate impact on the game, show the coaches and staff that you developed in your time (at Providence),” Donato said. “I tried to do that to the best of my abilities, and hopefully I proved that to them today.”Donato was sent to Providence on Nov. 1 after a disappointing start to his second NHL season, scoring just one goal in 11 games. The former Harvard standout had five goals and four assists in 12 games a season ago.“We know he can score, so he was going to be in the rotation. We just weren’t sure where,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. “Clearly Tuukka (Rask) obviously gave him that chance to go http://www.avalancheshoponline.com/authe...oot-jersey , and he took advantage of it.”Rask stymied the Islanders with 28 saves and Brad Marchand scored in regulation for the Bruins, who ended up in their first shootout this season.Anders Lee had a goal and Lehner made 35 saves for the Islanders, who lost their second straight game.Lehner allowed just one goal in regulation after giving up three or more in four consecutive starts.“Tuukka had a great game and kept us out of it, but so did Lehnny,” Lee said. “He played an incredible game. It comes down to the shootout, one of those things. Worst-case scenario, (it’s) a point on the road.”New York had a goal waved off with 3:47 to play in overtime after Anthony Beauvillier fell behind Rask in the crease before Mathew Barzal flipped the puck over the goaltender.Lee, the Islanders’ captain Womens Carl Soderberg Jersey , netted his eighth goal of the season with 7:43 left in the first period, poking a rebound through Rask’s pads after Scott Mayfield sent the puck on net from the right circle.Lee’s goal came seconds after a delayed penalty drawn by Barzal.Marchand tied it for Boston with 7:51 to play in the second following Nick Leddy’s high-sticking penalty. Marchand rocketed a one-timer from the right circle off a feed from David Pastrnak.Marchand’s tally snapped a seven-game goal drought and was his first since scoring once in a 4-1 win against Vegas on Nov. 11.The Islanders and Bruins meet twice more this season, next on Feb. 5 in Boston.NOTES: The Bruins retired longtime right wing Rick Middleton’s No. 16 before the game. Middleton, nicknamed “Nifty,” spent 12 seasons (1976-88) with Boston and ranks third in team history in goals (402) and fourth in points (898). … Bruins backup goalie Jaroslav Halak played 177 games (170 starts) for the Islanders from 2014-18, posting an 88-65-19 record with a 2.69 goals-against average and .913 save percentage. … Islanders C Valtteri Filppula played in his 900th NHL game. … Boston assigned LW Anders Bjork to Providence before the game.UP NEXTIslanders: Host the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday night.Bruins: Host the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night. OTTAWA — The New Jersey Devils will be riding a high when they visit the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Tuesday night.The Senators, meanwhile, have landed in some more mud. When they arrive at the rink for the morning skate Gabriel Landeskog Jersey Kids , Ottawa players will face questions from reporters on the latest off-ice controversy surrounding the club – video of a group of them badmouthing one of their coaches that was taken with a hidden camera and placed on social media by an Uber driver. Article continues below ...At least it will take some of the focus away from a plunge that has seen the Senators (5-6-3) lose six of their last seven games, primarily because of horrible defensive play. After a decent start, they now lead the league in most goals against (59) and average shots against per game (39.1).And not all of that would be on coaching.“It has been a few too many years here where the players haven’t taken ownership,” veteran defenseman Mark Borowiecki told Postmedia after the players-only meeting that followed Sunday’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning. “We were talking about it when the going was good early in the year and things were kind of buzzing a little bit, and we had all that positive energy and we had that nice stuff, but we’re going through a rough patch here, where it’s a true test of our personalities.”On the other hand, the Devils (6-5-1) were writing a feel-good story Monday in Pittsburgh with a 5-1 victory on Hockey Fights Cancer Awareness Night. Scoring a natural hat trick and the first three goal performance of his 12-year career was Brian Boyle http://www.avalancheshoponline.com/authe...her-jersey , who last month announced he was in remission from the chronic myelogenous leukemia he was diagnosed with in 2017.“I love these nights, I really do,” Boyle told reporters, per NHL.com. “Sometimes you feel kind of alone … it can be a dark place at times, during a cancer fight. I remember fighting it a little bit and I’m not feeling great. The worst part of it was people feel sorry for you. They don’t know what to say. You want them to feel comfortable around you.“That was a lot of fun. That was fun for us,” he added. It was good for us tonight. to bury a couple was nice.”It was the first victory as visitors for the Devils, who are now 1-3 during a season-long seven game road trip.The Senators are expected to go with Craig Anderson in goal. The 37-year old Anderson has appeared in 11 straight games, starting 10 of them. He leads the league in shots against (475) and saves (432) and goals against (43).Anderson is 10-3-2 all-time against the Devils Youth Matt Nieto Jersey , with a .935 save percentage and 2.35 goals against average.After Keith Kinkaid stopped 35 of 35 Pittsburgh shots on Monday, the Devils are expected to give Cory Schneider his third start of the season.Schneider has a career 6-3-1 record against the Senators that includes a .934 save percentage and 1.94 goals against average.