TORONTO — Bo Horvat had two goals and an assist as the New York Islanders topped the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 on Saturday night.
Maxim Tsyplakov, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Isaiah George, with his first in the NHL, and Mathew Barzal, into the empty net, also scored for New York , which got 27 saves from Ilya Sorokin and ended a two-game slide. Alexander Romanov, Simon Holmstrom and Anders Lee added two assists each.
William Nylander, with two, and Bobby McMann replied for Toronto , which was playing the second of a back-to-back. Joseph Woll, who allowed goals on two of the Islanders' first three attempts on target, finished with 28 stops. The Leafs saw their three-game winning streak snapped. Toronto was minus captain Auston Matthews after he took a cross-check to the back late in Friday's 6-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres.
The star centre missed nine games in November with an undisclosed upper-body injury that saw him travel to Germany for treatment. Head coach Craig Berube said a couple of hours before Saturday's puck drop Matthews had"aggravated" that ailment.TAKEAWAYSIslanders: New York has five won straight against the Leafs dating back to March 21, 2023. The club beat Toronto six consecutive times from 1978-79 to 1979-80 and then again from 1984-85 to 1986-87.
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