Josh Bailey's double-overtime winner lifts Islanders past Penguins in Game 5

PITTSBURGH — After 40 minutes of hockey proved that rookie goalie Ilya Sorokin deserved to win but the rest of the Islanders did not, Barry Trotz had a simple message during the second intermission Monday night.

"I said, ‘Enough is enough, boys,’ " the coach recounted. " 'We need everybody.’ "

It took a while, but the Islanders, outskated and outshot significantly in regulation, pushed the Penguins to the brink of elimination with a 3-2 double-overtime win in Game 5 of their first-round series at PPG Paints Arena.

Josh Bailey scored the winner 51 seconds into the second extra period after intercepting Penguins goalie Tristan Jarry's attempt to clear the puck.

Game 6 will be played Wednesday night at Nassau Coliseum as the Islanders look to close out a series in that building for the first time since 1993.

Sorokin, who has won all three of his playoff starts, was brilliant in stopping 48 shots, including 19 in the second period.

It was the Islanders' second overtime win of the series in Pittsburgh after taking Game 1, 4-3, with a single extra period. Sorokin made 39 saves in that victory.

"He was really big for us tonight," said Anthony Beauvillier, who gave the Islanders some life with a great individual effort to tie the score at 1 with 54.4 seconds left in the first period. "Key saves. He kept us in the game."

"You need good goaltending to get a win," said Jordan Eberle, who tied the score at 2 at 8:50 of the third period after Jean-Gabriel Pageau’s forecheck forced Penguins defenseman Brian Dumoulin into a turnover. "His poise and his athleticism to get across to make big saves and how quick he does it is very impressive."

"We stuck with it," Pageau said. "It definitely wasn’t our best start. Soroky kept us in there. Beau scored a big goal to give us life on the bench. After that, on the bench, I think we just believed in our chance. When we go into overtime, the longer it goes, we have a solid group here that sticks together. We played solid after that."

The winner of this series will face the Bruins in the second round after they eliminated the Capitals in the East Division’s other first-round series with a 3-1 win in Sunday night’s Game 5 in Washington.

"Everybody saw that series ended and everybody is conscious of it," Trotz said. "But I don’t think it gives you extra motivation. You have to focus on the moment and the task at hand. These are two really good teams and there’s not much separating them. You’ve just got to leave everything out there. Whatever happens at the end of the game, we have to flush it, good, bad or indifferent. We have to move on to the next one and really have a micro-focus."

Evgeni Malkin’s power-play goal off a crisp passing sequence from Bryan Rust and Kris Letang gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead at 8:20 of the first period. He beat Sorokin to the near side from the left circle.

Rust regained a 2-1 lead for the Penguins at 7:37 of the second period on a screened slap shot from the right point to the far post. The Islanders were outshot 20-4 in the second period and Sorokin had to stop two-on-one chances for Sidney Crosby and Brandon Tanev within the first 61 seconds, stretching out his right leg to stop the latter.

Overall, the Islanders’ zone entries and exits and physicality did not resemble their effort in Saturday’s 4-1 Game 4 win at the Coliseum.

"I thought they established their game quicker than we did," Trotz said. "I just thought they were spot on with their game early and we weren’t. I would give our guys a lot of credit for hanging in there. We knew we’d have to be really good tonight and we didn’t have enough guys good enough tonight."

Whether rookie sharpshooter Oliver Wahlstrom will be available for Game 6 is questionable. He exited after defenseman Mike Matheson shouldered him hard into the wall at 11:57 of the third period, snapping his head against the boards. Trotz said he did not have an update and listed Wahlstrom as day-to-day.

By Andrew Gross

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Andrew Gross joined Newsday in 2018 to cover the Islanders. He began reporting on the NHL in 2003 and has previously covered the Rangers and Devils. Other assignments have included the Jets, St. John’s and MLB.