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TORONTO – Bo Horvat scored the winning goal and added an assist as the New York Islanders defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 on Saturday night.
Simon Holmstrom scored twice, including one into an empty net, and Anthony Duclair scored the other goal for New York (4-3-1). Ilya Sorokin made 28 saves.
Colton Sissons answered for Toronto (3-4-2). Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 16 shots for the Maple Leafs, who have lost three straight games, and four of his last five shots.
The Islanders took a 1-0 lead at 8:18 of the first period when Duclair took a pass in the slot and changed the angle before shooting through a partial screen to Bobrovsky.
After scoring a hat trick in Thursday’s 5-4 shootout loss at home to the Buffalo Sabres, Maple Leafs winger Kirill Marchenko had several chances denied by Sorokin in the second.
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No. 1 overall pick 1 Gavin McKenna, who was on the bench for the second half of Thursday’s contest, had a chance to equalize late in the period on a partial breakaway, but his shot went high and wide. The Islanders raced the other way, with Horvat finally beating Bobrovsky at 18:33 to double the visitors’ lead.
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Sissons beat Toronto – which beat New York 2-1 at Scotiabank Arena on Sept. 30 – within a minute at 3:54 on a shot through traffic, but Holmstrom restored the two-goal lead at 14:08 on Horvat’s set-up before firing a shot into the empty net with two minutes of normal time remaining.
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Islanders: Matias Maccelli left the game in the first set and did not return due to a lower body injury. The winger, who spent last season with Toronto, stepped on defenseman Darren Raddysh’s stick and went down awkwardly.
Maple Leafs: The club announced veteran center John Tavares is out week-to-week with a lower-body injury he suffered on Thursday. The 36-year-old player scored two goals and five assists in seven games this season.
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New York staved off a delay-of-game penalty after defenseman Matthew Schaefer put a shot through the glass midway through the third period with his team up 2-1.
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Schaefer, who won the Calder Trophy last season as NHL rookie of the year and has yet to score a goal this season, is still one goal away from tying Tim Connolly for the most goals by a teenager in franchise history with 24. Bryan Trottier tops the list with 32.
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Islanders: Host the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday.
Maple Leafs: Host the San Jose Sharks on Monday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 17, 2026.
© 2026 Canadian Press
