The Islanders were defeated almost single-handedly by an old foe Tuesday night, as longtime Penguin James Neal had his first career four-goal game and the Oilers beat the Islanders 5-2 at the Coliseum.

Anthony Beauvillier and Matt Martin scored for the Islanders, but Semyon Varlamov, signed to a four-year deal in the offseason, was pulled in the second period in his second start of the season after giving up four goals on 19 shots. Thomas Greiss came on and stopped seven of the eight shots he faced.

“I think we were looking for an easy game, and I’m disappointed with that because we knew it wasn’t going to be,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz said. “Too many turnovers, too soft on the battle and [we] took too many penalties.”

Beauvillier got the Islanders on the scoreboard first with a short-handed goal late in the opening period. Edmonton scored twice in the final 2:07 of the first to take the lead, and then padded it with two more in the second.

With the Islanders trailing 2-1 after 20 minutes, Beauvillier nearly tied it three minutes into the middle period, but his shot was stopped by Mikko Koskinen, who stopped 25 shots for the Oilers.

Beauvillier was sent to the penalty box for cross-checking Darnell Nurse after Nurse had a hard hit on Leo Komarov, and the Oilers took advantage with their second power-play goal of the night. Neal completed his seventh career hat trick as he tipped in a pass from Leon Draisaitl from the left side for his fifth of the season at 6:31 for a two-goal lead.

Edmonton pushed the lead to 4-1 just 2:15 later as Zack Kassian tipped a pass by Draisaitl past Varlamov for his third of the season, ending Varlamov’s night.The Islanders stepped up the pressure with some of their best chances of the game, but Koskinen stopped a slap shot by Ryan Pulock with 7:17 left in the period. A minute later, he turned away attempts by Adam Pelech, Ryan Pulock and Jordan Eberle 17 seconds apart. Neal finished off his big night at 6:51 of the third for his sixth of the season to make it 5-1.

Martin provided the final margin, scoring with 6:28 left, tipping a pass from rookie defenseman Noah Dobson in his NHL debut.

Brock Nelson appeared to pull the Islanders within two with 3:12 left, but the goal was disallowed after a video review showed he kicked the puck in.

Edmonton won its first road game of the season and improved to 3-0-0 for the first time in 11 years. Connor McDavid added three assists.

The Islanders got the game’s first four shots on goal before the Oilers got their first, 7½ minutes in. Edmonton held the Isles to just two more shots the rest of the period and finished the first with a 13-6 edge.

Beauvillier gave the Islanders the lead with 5:46 to go in the opening period. With Edmonton on a power play, Komarov stole the puck from Draisaitl in the Oilers’ zone, spun and sent a pass up to Beauvillier, who was streaking to the net from the left side. Beauvillier skated across the front, deked and put a backhander past Koskinen for his second of the season and first short-handed goal of his career.

Neal tied it with 2:07 left. Derick Brassard had a takeaway for the Islanders, but the puck came off his stick to Neal, who fired it past Varlamov from the right point.

Neal then put Edmonton ahead with a power-play goal after New York’s Nelson was whistled for a double-minor for high-sticking. Neal, standing to the right side of the net in front of the goal line, got a pass from McDavid and quickly put it past Varlamov for his fourth of the season with 30.3 seconds to go in the first.