Noah Dobson scored in the ninth round of the shootout to lead the Islanders to a win over the Canadiens on Saturday night.

The New York Islanders defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 Saturday night in a nine-round shootout thriller. It was a back-and-forth battle that could have gone either way, but the Islanders came out on top thanks to Noah Dobson’s goal and Logan Mailloux’s missed shootout attempt in Round 9.

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The Islanders got two points from a “schedule win” meeting on the calendar with the young and loose Montreal Canadiens, but they did it the hard way, coughing up a 2-0 lead as well as a late 3-2 lead before finally prevailing in a lengthy shootout on Long Island,