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Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> (32-32-14, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders<\/a> (42-31-5, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n

Elmont, New York; Thursday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Islanders -267, Maple Leafs +215; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders take on the Toronto Maple Leafs after losing four in a row.<\/p>\n

New York has gone 21-14-2 at home and 42-31-5 overall. The Islanders have gone 30-9-3 in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 14-19-6 in road games and 32-32-14 overall. The Maple Leafs have a -34 scoring differential, with 241 total goals scored and 275 given up.<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the third time these teams play this season. The Islanders won 3-1 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Mathew Barzal<\/a> has scored 19 goals with 51 assists for the Islanders. Matthew Schaefer<\/a> has two goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

John Tavares<\/a> has 30 goals and 38 assists for the Maple Leafs. Matthew Knies<\/a> has scored five goals with one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Islanders: 3-7-0, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.9 assists, 3.1 penalties and nine penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Maple Leafs: 3-5-2, averaging 2.7 goals, four assists, 5.2 penalties and 14.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Islanders: Alexander Romanov<\/a>: out (shoulder), Pierre Engvall<\/a>: out for season (ankle), Tony DeAngelo<\/a>: day to day (lower body), Semyon Varlamov: out for season (knee), Kyle Palmieri<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

Maple Leafs: Anthony Stolarz<\/a>: day to day (lower body), Dakota Joshua: day to day (upper body), Brandon Carlo<\/a>: day to day (lower body), Chris Tanev<\/a>: out for season (abdomen), Auston Matthews<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs (32-32-14, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Islanders (42-31-5, in the Metropolitan Division) Elmont,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[6686,54,532,1529,3651,56683,5,611,776,20,5172,1951,797,374,285,159,4,6870,5891,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-548618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-alexander-romanov","9":"tag-anthony-stolarz","10":"tag-auston-matthews","11":"tag-brandon-carlo","12":"tag-chris-tanev","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-john-tavares","16":"tag-kyle-palmieri","17":"tag-maple-leafs","18":"tag-mapleleafs","19":"tag-mathew-barzal","20":"tag-matthew-knies","21":"tag-matthew-schaefer","22":"tag-national-hockey-league","23":"tag-new-york-islanders","24":"tag-nhl","25":"tag-pierre-engvall","26":"tag-tony-deangelo","27":"tag-toronto","28":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","29":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116373901232085392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}