Islanders vs. Maple Leafs | NHL Highlights | Sep 30, 2026

Paul Horvath for the Islanders. Nick Paul for the Leafs. Sit back and enjoy Wednesday night hockey here on Prime. Adam Pellick overskates it. Tailed in by Colton Sissons. In his first season here with Toronto. Jam up along the wall. Fished out by Horvath. He'll dump it out to center. Nick Paul on his horse. Moving it by Simon Holmstrom. Easton Cowan had a good game last night in the 3-2 loss against Montreal. Another shot stopped by Anthony Stolarz. To the point it goes. Matthew Schaefer. 23 goals and a stop by Anthony Stolarz. Ariel Marcinko out to center ice. Broken up by Jean-Gabriel Pacho. Here come the Islanders. Eklund with a shot. Victor Eklund, a 19-year-old rookie, with a heavy shot now. Eklund along the boards. Schaefer on the gallop. Pulls up. Brayden Chen holding onto it. Schaefer again. He'll address it. Shoot it. Stopped by Stolarz. The Islanders starting their season without the injured Matt Barzell. Chen now the former St. Louis Blue captain ahead for Ritchie. And Brayden Chen will dump it in. His first win, ironically, against the Maple Leafs April 9th. Nick Paul with a shot. Turned out by Sorokin and flung wide by Colton Sissons. Easton Cowan out of the corner. He'll wind it up. Nick Paul. Sissons! He scores! Sissons has his first goal as a Toronto Maple Leaf. And they are up and running. They're trying to find a shift to get some balance and some momentum just to get in the offensive zone. Look about Easton Cowan there. He's on the hud and that puts the Islanders in a tough situation. Nick Paul is up high in the zone. You're going to see that a lot this year from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Another great play right here. And what a shot. Most guys are looking to the sky after you missed that chance that Sissons did. But he threw a pick and then he goes and presents his backhand. What a feed from Nick Paul. And as you mentioned, Easton Cowan, a contributor. 11.39 left to go in the opening period. Colton Sissons with his new team has given Toronto an early 1-0 lead. With a shot and save. Sorokin. He's excited at the opportunity and the Islanders are happy to have him. He brings a little bit of toughness, something they needed. Finished last year in Buffalo. Paul Horvat, good stop there by Stolarz. Out in front, defensively cleaned up by John Tavares. The Leafs working around, down low, kicking it to his stick. Jack Roslevic in his first season here in Toronto. Out of the corner. Cowan to the slot. Cleaned up by Pelek. Beautiful keep by Morgan. This way, Roslevic with a shot. And he's got Easton out of place at the right time. It's a power play, but it's a 2-0 lead. His second unit goes to work. And Easton Cowan has his fingerprints all over this first period. Patient, confident, waiting at the line as Riley knocked that down out of the air. And the puck just finds him because he's in the right area, understanding how that should unfold. An educated shot from Roslevic, but his stroke has got to have that. Out to center ice. Simon Holmstrom. Palmieri, pending on a shot. The second opportunity fended off by Stolarz. Stanley. One stride and a half, and he's full speed. And then the heads-up play. But that Horvat pass as well. That was a pretty thin lane he put that through on the backhand. Duclair wins a battle. It's kicked out by Stolarz. Matthews reestablishing away from Tony D'Angelo. Work it low. Up top, Matthews. Archanko shielded and frozen by Sorokin. Leading down the boards is Easton Cowan. Checked by Pazzo. Cowan, a good job along the wall for Toronto. It pops out. Tough play. McKenna in front. And McKenna's pass comes all the way back. Here's Riley, just wide. The power play for Toronto to get us started here. Horvat. Holmstrom. Crisscross at the line. Horvat with a shot. Kicked out by Anthony Stolarz. First period goals. Colton Sissons and Easton Cowan on the power play. Malak to the outside. Now away from Nylander. Winding shot. Stopped by Stolarz. The rebound for Duclair. He's broken up. Sasika's on it. Anthony Duclair to the house. Turned out by Stolarz. The rebound. He's got that one. Inching out, J.G. Pazzo. Hit the line. Nylander's onside. Schaefer out in front. Off Eklund. Stopped by Stolarz. On a dime. And he went out after every goal. Yes. Sissons in tight. Big save by Sorokin. Flexion to the corner by Sorokin. Now keep an eye on Cowan here. He's going to take a hit from Logan Stanley, but he knows in doing so, in paying that price, he's going to get it to the open Sissons. He's a key piece of the leadership group and how they want to play every single night. A cave with a shot. Easily detected by Sorokin. Ritchie taps it back. D'Angelo. Now Pelic. Looking for a tip. It's loose. Available. Eklund broken up by Stolarz. Now Duclair. Palat blocked by Radish. Going to change Romanov. Pazzo will feed it across. Now Stanley. Resting one up. Palat out in front. 7.09 left in the second. Toronto through center. Matthews fresh. Pulls up on Pelic. Now Larson turned out by Sorokin. Eklund-Larson panned on the rebound. And it comes out. Stetcher. Stretches out the ice for OEL. It was denied. Pelic goes deep. I've seen a lot of momentum here from the Islanders. Right from that power play through this next two shifts with the Maple Leafs right now. Here they come. Marchenko. Cuts across. Shot turned out by Sorokin. Bolton-Sissons. Now and again with a top pass. That was denied. To the outside. Duclair. Send it back. Islanders can't get out. Sissons with a shot off the goalpost. Sorokin here one-on-one. Oh. Good angle we'll call that. What a chaffer shot off the stick of Anthony Stolarz. And it comes out to John Tavares. Nice pass for Nylander. To the house. Tego shut down by Sorokin. Forced by Marchenko, who has it. He sets up Stetcher, who sets up Ekman-Larsen for a shot caught off a couple of times by Sorokin. He's got it. Austin Matthews. Muscle pick out of the corner with a nerd. A slot pass all the way back. Matthews, Riley looking for the tip. Sorokin said no. Now out to center. O'Grue picked up. Muscled by Pelic. Betty Bluger in on Schaefer. Pelic again. Turns it over Duhaime. With a shot. Swallowed up by Sorokin. Haslubek has Matthews in front. But the play was broken up nicely by Ryan Bullock. Here come the Isles. Block. They'll stop up. Shen with a shot. Picked off by Stolarz. A tangle in for Ritchie. Attempt to go low to high. Do the Islanders. D'Angelo. Michelli. In tight to Clair. Stolarz with a dandy. Couldn't believe it. Wow. There's no room. And then at the very end. You work it in. Schaefer gets it back from Michelli. Shen a one-timer with Palmieri out in front. Matthews, Schaefer cradling that puck in tight. Palmieri. What a save. Scissoring out the pad. Anthony Stolarz. He had a good yield at the mice level. It was an unbelievable feed. But again, that lower part of the net, it's really not there. And Palmieri almost found it. But this time it was the left skate. Stolarz, he just covers so much space. The bottom of his skate laid down. Yeah, I think it did. Watch that left toe. Yeah, hardly. Wasn't even the pad. Now Ritchie up top. D'Angelo. Ritchie calling for the puck. A shot swallowed without rebound. Anthony Stolarz. Forehead out of the corner. This is Schaefer. Around the clock. Off the twig of Michelli. Schaefer again. One-timer. Horvat stopped beautifully by Stolarz. Allen has the power play strike. In the first period. Tavares. Kicks it out. That is a bomb again. And Sorokin says no. On the boards now. Big tie-up. Panthers trying to salt away some precious seconds here. Horvat is away. Short-handed. Heinemann. With a short-handed goal. And a beautiful pass from the captain. Beau Horvat. The Islanders have had the power play. But there it's a play out of that scrum from Marchenko. And it's just in between. And then Horvat here. Perfect. Heinemann is streaking. And he goes right to that blue paint hard here. And looks like a pretty good collision with Stolarz at the end. Oh, it's tough for Nylander. You're a D-man. It's a 50-50. And Horvat poked it by him. How about the saucer pass on that? They're just laying it. And we saw it too many times. In front, blocked by Stanley. It's available. It kicks out to Riley. They reorganize again. Nick Paul. In tight. Shot taken by McKenna. Little on Toronto. Micheli. Kyle Palmieri. He'll dust it off. Shot stopped by Stolarz. And Micheli was looking for the rebound. It's held from Paul. He'll dump it out. And Jim Miller will have its first win. As the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, as they surround Anthony Stolarz. They defeat the New York...