NEW YORK (AP) — Leon Draisaitl scored his second goal of the night on a breakaway 3:52 into overtime, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the New York Islanders 2-1 on Friday night.
Calvin Pickard finished with 24 saves to help the Oilers win for the fourth time in seven games.
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Edmonton Oilers center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (93) and New York Islanders center Marc Gatcomb (16) battle for the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
New York Islanders defenseman Tony DeAngelo (4) brings the puck around the goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Edmonton Oilers left wing Zach Hyman (18) searches for an opening during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
New York Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin (30) stops the puck with his skate during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
New York Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech (3) reacts after a missed shot on goal by the Edmonton Oilers during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
New York Islanders left wing Pierre Engvall (18) handles the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl (29) handles the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl (29) celebrates scoring the winning goal in overtime of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl (29) celebrates scoring the winning goal in overtime of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Bo Horvat scored for the Islanders and Ilya Sorokin finished with 33 saves. New York lost its third straight.
In the extra period, Draisaitl got a pass from Connor McDavid and skated up and beat Sorokin for his NHL-leading 49th goal of the season.
The Oilers outshot the Islanders 17-6 in a scoreless first period, and Draisaitl got them on the scoreboard with a slap shot from the top of the left circle at 8:46 of the second.
Horvat tied it 1-1 for the Islanders at 1:21 of the third as he skated up the right side on a 2-on-1 break with Anthony Duclair, kept the puck and beat Pickard for his 21st.
Oilers: Edmonton had lost 8 of 11 to drop to third place in the Pacific Division. With the win, the Oilers moved past Los Angeles back into second.
Islanders: New York had won four of five before their current losing streak. They earned a point to pull to four points out of a wild card spot in the Eastern Conference.
The Islanders' Pierre Engvall tried to catch Pickard off-guard with a shot from the slot in overtime, but the goalie swatted it away to the side. The puck was knocked back toward Pickard, and he knocked it forward, where McDavid got it and passed it up to Draisaitl for the breakaway goal to win it.
The Islanders outhit the Oilers 21-10 and blocked 22 shots to keep it a tight game.
Oilers play at New York Rangers on Sunday, and Islanders host Florida.
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Edmonton Oilers center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (93) and New York Islanders center Marc Gatcomb (16) battle for the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
New York Islanders defenseman Tony DeAngelo (4) brings the puck around the goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Edmonton Oilers left wing Zach Hyman (18) searches for an opening during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
New York Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin (30) stops the puck with his skate during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
New York Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech (3) reacts after a missed shot on goal by the Edmonton Oilers during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
New York Islanders left wing Pierre Engvall (18) handles the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl (29) handles the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl (29) celebrates scoring the winning goal in overtime of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl (29) celebrates scoring the winning goal in overtime of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Friday, March 14, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the U.S. and Israel, two semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported Tuesday, as tensions flared in Israel's separate but related fight against the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The halt in communication was likely meant to increase pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump over negotiations on the Iran war ceasefire and loosening the Islamic Republic's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and the oil, gas and other commodities that normally pass through it. Trump then could potentially push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt or slow the advance of his forces, which have moved deeper into Lebanon than at any time in over a quarter of a century.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not address the reported cutoff in communications as he testified at a congressional hearing in Washington. Instead, he sounded an optimistic note about the nuclear dimension of the negotiations, while cautioning that there's no guarantee of reaching "a deal that’s acceptable.”
The reports by the Fars and Tasnim news agencies, both believed to be close to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, come as the conflicts in Iran and Lebanon have increasingly become conjoined. Iran insists that any potential truce in the war there must also quell the fighting in Lebanon, where Hezbollah remains one of Iran's chief allies in its self-described “axis of resistance” against Israel.
A regional official involved in the mediation, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the talks, told The Associated Press that Iran had not communicated at all on Tuesday after saying that a ceasefire needed to be enforced in Lebanon for negotiations to continue.
Israel and the U.S. maintain the fighting in Lebanon is separate from the Iran war talks.
Meanwhile, year-on-year inflation in Iran reached a level in May unseen since World War II, underlining the economic pain average Iranians are facing. While the U.S. is eager to ease the Islamic Republic's grip on the strait — through which a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed in peacetime — Iran faces economic challenges as its oil-backed economy remains under a U.S. naval blockade.
Economic pressure touched off nationwide protests in Iran in 2017 into 2018, when rising food prices sparked demonstrations that killed over 20 people and saw hundreds arrested. The next year, an increase in government-subsidized gasoline prices caused protests that saw over 300 people reportedly killed.
Then came the protests over the collapsing value of Iran's currency, the rial, at the start of this year. They were the most intense demonstrations to shake the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution and the chaotic years that followed. Iran's theocracy met January's protests with a crackdown on demonstrators in January that killed over 7,000 people, according to activists' estimates.
Now, even as hard-liners hold gun-handling workshops and organize marriages under the shadow of a ballistic missile to bolster spirits, experts note there could be new demonstrations if people find themselves priced out of feeding their families.
“I have no doubt that if Trump leaves (Iran without a formal peace deal) ... most probably, we will see something like January by the end of summer because of the economic and social situations," analyst Mohsen Jalilvand said in a video published by Iran's Fararu news website.
Iran's Central Bank said the consumer price index, which measures a basket of goods and services, reached 77.2% in May compared with the year before. The rate is 8.5% higher than in April, the bank added. Inflation in daily and general needs — like medicine, taxi fares, tobacco and communication fees — rose 113.8% from the year before.
A private economic think tank in Iran, the Bamdad Institute of Economic Studies, described the current figures as “an unprecedented rate since World War II.” Iran’s Central Bank did not acknowledge the significance of the figures.
The previous record came in 1942. During the war, the British and Soviets invaded Iran and took over its railway, disrupting food supplies. The lack of food, worsened by a poor harvest, sparked hyperinflation and a famine. Hunger and a typhus outbreak killed many.
Airstrikes this year have greatly damaged Iran's businesses and its oil industry, Meanwhile, the U.S. blockade has been targeting Iranian crude oil shipments trying to reach the international market, a key source of hard revenue. Tax revenues have been depressed by businesses struggling even after the fighting paused.
The rial, which traded at 32,000 to $1 in 2015, now trades at over 1.7 million to $1.
“We will definitely have higher prices," Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned in May. "We are fighting, and we must accept this hardship.”
Tehran-based economist Saeed Leilaz, speaking to the AP, warned that annual inflation in Iran could reach 80%.
"Iran’s society cannot tolerate above 25%” annual inflation, he said.
Karimi reported from Tehran, Iran. Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz contributed from New York.
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