Uniondale, NY (Betting Express) - Miroslav Satan scored two goals, both in the third period, as the New York Islanders rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 3-2, at Nassau Coliseum.

It was a good result in the return of legendary Islanders coach Al Arbour, who was brought back in place of head coach Ted Nolan for one game, his 1,500th with the club.

"This is my second home, I was on Long Island 27 years and I liked every bit of it and the fans were always good, even when we were having bad days they were always behind us," Arbour said. "I'd like to thank them for coming out tonight, I hear it was a sellout. They were very vocal."

Trent Hunter added a goal, and Rick DiPietro and Wade Dubielewicz combined to make 23 saves for the Islanders, who have won four of their last five. Josef Vasicek and Marc-Andre Bergeron had assists for New York, which went ahead of Pittsburgh in the Atlantic Division standings.

"There are certain games you win on hard work and certain games you win on skill and sometimes you will yourself and tonight I think it was one of those games," Nolan said. "If you're going to write a script, you can't write one better and that's what we jokingly told Al going out the third period, we lost the first period, we tied the second, let's go win the third, it's written and that's how it ended up."

Ryan Malone and Tyler Kennedy scored for the Penguins, who have now dropped four of their last five games. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 36 shots for Pittsburgh.

Satan, who had just one goal before Saturday's game, was the spark in coming back from a 2-1 deficit entering the third period.

About five minutes into the final 20 minutes, the Islanders collected the puck in their defensive zone, as Vasicek started racing across the neutral zone. He accepted a pass just as he crossed the blue line, and skated to the right circle.

When he got near the right faceoff circle, Vasicek stopped, and dished a pass to Satan skating up the middle of the ice, and Satan put it past Fleury.

Nearly 12 minutes later, Satan struck again. An Isles shot blasted from the right side of the blue line caromed around to the left side, where Bergeron controlled the puck and rocketed a shot back towards net.

Fleury made the save with his left leg pad, but the puck bounced out to Satan, who put it in for the deciding score.

Though, it was a less-than-ideal contest for DiPietro, who left in the second period after a collision with Sidney Crosby's stick. As the Penguins' captain skated by the right side of the net with about six minutes left in the period, his stick caught DiPietro in the eye.

DiPietro, who could see out of the bruised eye, was taken to the hospital for further evaluation.

The Isles' starting goaltender came out of the game in line for the loss, as his team struggled to get back in the game. They outshot the Penguins 29-19 through two periods, but had just one goal to show for it.

That came 8:20 into the second period, after the Islanders had just ended a power play, when Hunter slapped one from the slot past Fleury.

Pittsburgh raced out to a 2-0 lead after Malone scored on the power play with just under eight minutes to go in the first period. Kennedy notched the second Penguins goal - and his first the year 1:48 into the second period on a strange shot that went into the top left corner of the net, but wasn't initially called a goal.

Game Notes

Crosby's assist extended his points streak to 12 consecutive games...Pittsburgh has scored at least one power play goal in all 13 games this season.