Blackhawks 3, Islanders 2 (OT)
NEW YORK -- Right winger Patrick Kane scored with 3:11 left in overtime Friday night as the Chicago Blackhawks spoiled the New York Islanders' opener with a 3-2 win in the first regular-season game at the Barclays Center.
The defending Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks evened their record at 1-1-0. Kane had another goal and center Artem Anisimov also scored for Chicago. Goalie Corey Crawford made 34 saves.
Center and captain John Tavares and defenseman Marek Zidlicky scored for the Islanders, who moved to Brooklyn after 42 seasons at Long Island's Nassau Coliseum. Goalie Thomas Greiss had 32 saves in his New York debut.
The Islanders paid homage to their past while acknowledging their new era during a stirring pregame ceremony.
After a brief video that began with an aerial view of Nassau Coliseum and ended with Islanders logos and championship banners adorning Brooklyn landmarks, Coldplay's "Fix You" -- which was the Islanders' entrance song last season -- began playing.
Tavares led the Islanders to center ice, where players gathered around the team logo and raised their sticks, just as they did before the Coliseum's final opening night on Oct. 11, 2014. Afterward, a moment of silence was held in honor of Al Arbour, who coached the Islanders to their four straight Stanley Cups in the early 1980s and died in August.
Long Islander Alexa Ray Joel, whose father Billy closed out Nassau Coliseum with a concert Aug. 4, performed the national anthem. The ceremonial first puck drop was then held with dynasty members Mike Bossy, Bobby Nystrom, Billy Smith and Bryan Trottier joining several politicians as well as Islanders owner Charles Wang, ownership partners Jon Ledecky and Scott Malkin at center ice.
Ledecky and Malkin will take over majority ownership next season.
The Blackhawks scored the first goal in the new building when a turnover by Islanders center Brock Nelson led directly to Anisimov's short-handed goal with 6:32 left in the first period. Nelson's no-look dumpoff was intercepted by Anisimov, who went in untouched and beat Greiss.
Tavares, appropriately enough, tied the score with the Islanders' first Brooklyn goal 5:22 into the second period. He circled the back of the Blackhawks' net with the puck and deked Crawford twice before firing a shot past him.
The Blackhawks took the lead with 4:49 remaining in the second period when Kane took a no-look pass from center Jonathan Toews, who was pressured behind the net by Islanders defenseman Nick Leddy, and tucked a shot into the right corner of the net.
NOTES: The Islanders scratched G Jaroslav Halak (upper body), RW Steve Bernier and D Ryan Pulock. ... G Thomas Greiss became the seventh different opening night goalie for the Islanders in the last eight seasons. The only goalie to start multiple openers for the Islanders since 2008 is Evgeni Nabokov. ... The Islanders' first game at Barclays came two days after the 43rd anniversary of the franchise's debut, a 3-2 loss to the Atlanta Flames at Nassau Coliseum. ... The Blackhawks scratched RW Kyle Baun and D David Rundblad. ... Blackhawks RW Viktor Tikhonov played in his first NHL game since April 11, 2009. Tikhonov subsequently spent two seasons in the AHL and four seasons in his native Russia.