In Brooklyn, Brock Nelson scored two goals, including the game-winner, in a 6-5 Islanders overtime win over the Toronto Maple Leafs Monday night.
Thomas Greiss made 27 saves for the win.
New York needed a goal from Andrew Ladd with 1:29 left in regulation to force extra time.
“I think you’re disappointed,” Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said. “It’s always good to get a point on the road. If it was 2-1, I’d probably wouldn’t feel like I do right now. When you give up six goals, especially some of the mistakes we made defensively … for me, to give up free ones, just tap-ins by our net, is not good enough. We’ve got to get that fixed in a hurry.”
William Nylander had given the Leafs a 5-4 lead with just over minutes left in regulation.
Ryan Strome, Nikolay Kulemin, Josh Bailey also scored for the Islanders who avoided a three-game skid with the win.
“We just tried to hang in there and keep playing,” Bailey said. “We knew we were going to have to score a few tonight against this team and found a way to do it.”
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All five goals for Toronto came from rookies Monday night including Nikita Soshnikov, Auston Matthews, Mitchell Marner, Zach Hyman.
“We definitely need to be better. These are important points. We’re getting down to the stretch end of the season and we don’t want these points to come back and haunt us. We’ve got to make sure we capitalize on them,” Matthews said after the loss.
Frederick Andersen made 28 saves in taking the loss for Toronto.
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