Islanders’ late rally comes up short as they finish homestand with 7-4…

NEW YORK (AP) — Noel Acciari and Colton Parayko scored 13 seconds apart in the third period and the St. Louis Blues defeated the New York Islanders 7-4 on Tuesday night.

Josh Leivo had a goal and an assist and Thomas Greiss made 36 saves and the Blues snapped a five-game skid in the finale of a three-game northeastern road trip. Ivan Barbashev, Ryan O’Reilly and Robert Thomas also scored for St. Louis.

Noah Dobson, Zach Parise, Hudson Fasching and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored for New York. Ilya Sorokin made 21 saves, but the Islanders fell for the third time in four games.

Parise, Fasching and Pageau scored within a 9:28 stretch in the third period to trim their deficit to one goal. But Thomas and Acciari each scored an empty-net goal to seal the victory in favor of St. Louis.

Barbashev gave the Blues a 2-1 lead at 3:51 of the second period when he buried a feed from William Bitten on an odd-man rush opportunity. Islanders defenseman Scott Mayfield failed to keep the puck in the offensive zone after a strange bounce off the boards and the Blues capitalized.

O’Reilly extended St. Louis’ lead to two goals at 14:58 of the second period. The Blues captain fired a sharp-angled shot and then beat Islanders defenseman Alexander Romanov to the rebound before pushing the puck past Sorokin.

Leivo opened the scoring with a nifty wrist shot that rang off the post and in at 17:13 of the first period. The Islanders fell to 5-9 this season when surrendering the first goal.

Dobson’s top-shelf one-timer evened the score at 1-all 39 seconds after Leivo notched his first of the season. Mathew Barzal showed off his great vision with a beautiful backhand pass to set up Dobson in the slot.

Greiss preserved the Blues’ two-goal edge early in the third period with a critical stop on Parise off a pass from…