DALLAS (AP) — The New York Islanders added another statement victory to this remarkable road trip, turning back one of the NHL's best teams in a tense finish with a little help from the league's replay review crew.
Their feelings for the moment were elsewhere, however, with concern about the health of a teammate and anger about how he was hurt.
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Dallas Stars left wing Jason Robertson (21) skates by himself after scoring during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)
New York Islanders center Casey Cizikas (53) checks Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) into the glass during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)
EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - Referee Stephen Hiff overturns a game-tying Dallas Stars goal on a goalie interference call during the third period of an NHL hockey game between the Stars and the New York Islanders, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)
New York Islanders defenseman Alexander Romanov (28) and center Casey Cizikas (53) celebrate a goal by center Kyle Palmieri (21) during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Dallas Stars, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)
The third period of this 3-2 win over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday was about as action-packed as a regular season game could be, all the way down to the final tenth of a second when the Stars were awarded the tying goal on the ice only to have it taken away after the video review at league headquarters.
Just before that, Islanders defenseman Alexander Romanov had to be helped off the ice after ramming face-first into the boards. He'd been hit by Stars forward Mikko Rantanen, who was ejected for boarding with 28 seconds left, and the Islanders were fuming about it. Coach Patrick Roy screamed toward Rantanen as he walked down the tunnel toward the locker room.
“Whenever your friend gets hurt, it’s way more important than hockey,” teammate Jean-Gabriel Pageau said.
Roy had no details on Romanov's injury afterward but said he didn't need a hospital visit.
“You see the numbers, you have to lay off. Everybody knows that. I mean, you don’t go through the guy,” said Roy, whose team is 5-1 on a seven-game road swing. “I’m proud of the way that our guys handled it afterwards. No one was happy to see someone get hurt like this. It’s disrespectful for our guy.”
Roy noted that he briefly coached Rantanen as a rookie in 2015-16, his final season with Colorado, and said playing dirty was not his style.
“But at the same time, that should not be part of our game,” Roy said.
Stars coach Glen Gulutzan defended Rantanen because he believed his skate was clipped by Islanders defenseman Scott Mayfield's to cause him to raise his arms for balance right before contact with Romanov that in turn increased the intensity of the hit.
“It's just one of those hockey plays that happened. I hope Romanov is OK,” Gulutzan said. “It's a dangerous play for everybody.”
The Stars clearly understood why the Islanders were so upset.
“They’re sticking up for their guy. We have to respect that,” said star Jason Robertson, who had two goals. “It’s just unfortunate it happened.”
Then for good measure, another collision wound up determining the final outcome.
As Robertson darted toward the net with the final seconds ticking away, Wyatt Johnson put a shot on the net as Robertson ran into goalie David Rittich, who fell on his back as the puck went in and the arena erupted. But the NHL's Situation Room initiated a review and ruled that Robertson impaired Rittich's ability to play the puck. The Stars contended that Robertson was pushed by an Islanders player into the crease.
“Our side's going to say Robo got pushed. Their side's going to say Robo ran into the goalie," Stars forward Tyler Seguin said. "It kind of is what it is in an 82-game season.”
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Dallas Stars left wing Jason Robertson (21) skates by himself after scoring during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)
New York Islanders center Casey Cizikas (53) checks Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) into the glass during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)
EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - Referee Stephen Hiff overturns a game-tying Dallas Stars goal on a goalie interference call during the third period of an NHL hockey game between the Stars and the New York Islanders, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)
New York Islanders defenseman Alexander Romanov (28) and center Casey Cizikas (53) celebrate a goal by center Kyle Palmieri (21) during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Dallas Stars, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens, and he was in the courtroom on Wednesday for the arguments.
The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions, one of several courts that have blocked them. They have not taken effect anywhere in the country.
Trump is the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court. Crowds watched from the sidewalks as his motorcade drove along Constitution and Independence Avenues, passing the Washington Monument and the National Mall on the way to the court building.
The case frames another test of Trump's assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court that has largely ruled in the president's favor — but with some notable exceptions that Trump has responded to with starkly personal criticisms of the justices. A definitive ruling is expected by early summer.
The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.
Birthright citizenship is the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling. The justices previously struck down global tariffs Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.
Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.
He issued a preemptive broadside against the court on Sunday on his Truth Social platform. “Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America. It is about the BABIES OF SLAVES!,” the president wrote. “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!”
Trump's order would upend the long-standing view that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, and federal law since 1940 confer citizenship on everyone born on American soil, with narrow exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.
The 14th Amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship, though the Citizenship Clause is written more broadly. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” it reads.
In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down the executive order as illegal, or likely so, under the Constitution and federal law. The decisions have invoked the high court's 1898 ruling in Wong Kim Ark, which held that the U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.
The Trump administration argues that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.
The court should use the case to set straight “long-enduring misconceptions about the Constitution’s meaning,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote.
No court has accepted that argument, and lawyers for pregnant women whose children would be affected by the order said the Supreme Court should not be the first to do so.
“We have the president of the United States trying to radically reinterpret the definition of American citizenship,” said Cecillia Wang, the American Civil Liberties Union legal director who is facing off against Sauer at the Supreme Court.
More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would be affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute.
While Trump has largely focused on illegal immigration in his rhetoric and actions, the birthright restrictions also would apply to people who are legally in the United States, including students and applicants for green cards, or permanent resident status.
Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
Demonstrators holding opposing views verbally engage ahead of President Donald Trump's arrival at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
President Donald Trump's limo exits the White House en route to the Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
People arrive to walk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
People arrive to walk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen as the moon rises Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
