Bo Horvat scores winner and adds assist in Islanders' 4-1 win over Maple Leafs

TORONTO (AP) — Bo Horvat scored the winner and added an assist to help the New York Islanders beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 on Saturday night.

Simon Holmstrom scored twice, the second into an empty net, and Anthony Duclair also connected for New York (4-3-1). Ilya Sorokin made 28 saves.

Colton Sissons replied for Toronto (3-4-2). Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 16 shots for the Maple Leafs. They have dropped three straight games and four of their last five.

The Islanders jumped out to a 1-0 lead at 8:18 of the first period when Duclair took a pass in the slot and changed the angle before firing through a partial screen on Bobrovsky.

Coming off a hat trick Thursday night in a 5-4 home shootout loss to Buffalo, Maple Leafs winger Kirill Marchenko had a couple of chances that Sorokin turned aside in the second.

No. 1 overall pick Gavin McKenna, who was benched for the second half of Thursday’s contest, had an opportunity it late in the second period on a partial breakaway, but fired high and wide. The Islanders raced the other way, with Horvat eventually beating Bobrovsky with 1:27 to go.

Sissons got Toronto — which topped New York 2-1 at Scotiabank Arena on Sept. 30 — within one at 3:54 of the third on a tipped shot through traffic, but Holmstrom restored the two-goal lead with 5:52 to go off Horvat's setup before firing into the empty net with just over two minutes remaining.

The Islanders' Matias Maccelli left in the first period and didn’t return with an apparent lower-body injury. The winger, who spent last season with Toronto, stepped on the stick of defenseman Darren Raddysh and fell awkwardly.

Islanders: Host Anaheim on Tuesday night

Maple Leafs: Host San Jose on Monday night.

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New York Islanders' Matias MacCelli (63) moves the puck as New York Islanders' Simon Holmstrom (92) and Toronto Maple Leafs' Morgan Rielly (44) look on during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

Toronto Maple Leafs' Gavin McKenna (92) chases New York Islanders' Victor Eklund (38) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) makes a save as New York Islanders' Simon Holmstrom (92) looks for the rebound during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

New York Islanders' Anthony Duclair (11) celebrates his goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs with Emil Heineman (51), Jean-Gabriel Pageau (44) and Matthew Kessel (4) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

New York Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin (30) makes a save against the Toronto Maple Leafs during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Nikolaj Ehlers scored a power-play goal 6:43 into the third period to lift the Carolina Hurricanes to their seventh straight victory, 3-2 over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.

The former Jet fired a wrist shot past the glove of Clay Stevenson.

Mark Jankowski — also on the power play — and Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored for Carolina as well. Hurricanes defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere had two assists.

Pyotr Kochetkov made 21 saves and has posted victories in all five starts this season. With fewer than 40 seconds remaining, Kochetkov made a pad save on Cole Perfetti, following that up with a save on 18-year-old Viggo Bjorck off the helmet to preserve Carolina’s lead.

Mark Scheifele and Alex Iafallo scored for Winnipeg, which lost its first game this season on home ice in regulation. Stevenson stopped 34 shots.

Winnipeg held 1-0 and 2-1 leads, before trailing in the third period. The Jets are 1-1 in matinee games this season, with nine more to play. After a three-game point drought to start the year, Scheifele is now riding a five-game point streak with two goals and six assists.

Carolina made the Jets pay on special-teams, scoring two goals while the power play and killing off Winnipeg’s lone opportunity with the man advantage. Jankowski’s second-period goal extended his NHL-leading active goal streak to seven consecutive games.

Jets: Visit the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night.

Hurricanes: Visit the Calgary Flames on Sunday.

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Winnipeg Jets goaltender Clay Stevenson (33) saves the loose puck against Carolina Hurricanes during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' Adam Lowry (17) passes the puck to Alex Iafallo past Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov (52) for a goal by Iafallo during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets goaltender Clay Stevenson (33) saves the loose puck against Carolina Hurricanes during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' Dylan DeMelo (2) defends against Carolina Hurricanes' Nikolaj Ehlers (27) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP)