ATLANTA, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Jason Wiemer and Claude Lapointe scored during a 4:08 span of the third period Saturday night and the New York Islanders held on for a 5-4 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers.
The line of Wiemer, Lapointe and rookie Justin Mapletoft combined for four points in the decisive third period after failing to register a point in the previous four games.
New York squandered a two-goal advantage and the contest was knotted at 3-3 when Wiemer's shorthanded effort -- his first goal as an Islander -- put his team in front and appeared to take the energy out of the charging Thrashers.
Mapletoft assisted on both third-period goals for his first two NHL points.
Vyacheslav Kozlov collected a power-play goal with less than two minutes left, slicing Atlanta's deficit to 5-4. But the Thrashers remained winless at 0-4
1 and lost for the fourth time in the last five meetings with the Islanders.
