In Elmont, Joseph Woll made 20 saves for the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday night, in a 3-0 win over the New York Islanders. 
The Islanders are winless in two games on their new ice.
“Pretty cool,” Woll said. “I think at the end of the day, the biggest thing is that we won the game. Just to see how well we played and come out with 40-plus shots and just play hard defensively all the way through and just see how that translates to offense for us was pretty sweet. I’m just happy to be able to share it with this group.”
Mitchell Marner‘s first of two goals in the came was a shorthanded breakaway early in the first period for a 1-0 lead.
“It’s always fun coming into a new arena and kind of just seeing what’s been done to it, kind of just the new aspects of it and the new kind of feeling,” Marner said. “It’s always fun coming into a new building and it’s a pretty good rivalry with this team, just from the fan base and what’s been going on, so it’s always going to be a pretty loud building coming in here and pretty electric atmosphere.
“I thought we did a good job of coming in and going at them right away and kind of putting our game down first.”
New York dropped to 5-8-2.
“Put it this way, it hasn’t been easy,” Islanders head coach Barry Trotz said. “We’re not looking for excuses, we get it. We’re just trying to win a hockey game. Last night (a 5-2 loss to the Calgary Flames), we played well enough to get a point at least; tonight, we didn’t play quite as well.”
The Male Leafs’ Ondrej Kase scored with two minutes gone in the third period for a 2-0 lead.
Toronto improved to 13-6-1.
Marner picked up his second goal of the game in the 14th minute of the third period for the 3-0 final.
The Isles were scoreless in three power play chances.
“A lot of times it’s execution and effort,” Trotz said. “If one of those two things are failing, then you get bad results.”
Brock Nelson left the game in the first period with an apparent injury.
“I don’t think we’re concerned,” the Islanders’ Jean-Gabriel Pageau said. “We obviously know what we’re into. With that group of guys, we’ve been through a lot the past two years, a lot of adversity. We’re obviously all winners and we want to win every night.
“At this point we’ve got to take what we’ve done good in those games and keep pushing together. The only way we’re going to get out of it is together and with this group of guys. We’re a solid group, and I know there’s a lot of character and we can get out of it for sure.”
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