GAMEDAY PREVIEW December 29, 2018 at TIME: 7:00 ET TV: MSG+, ESPN+ RADIO: Radio.com, 88.7 and 103.9 WRCN 2018-19 SEASON STATS PLAYERS TO WATCH ISLANDERS MAPLE LEAFS CASEY CIZIKAS #53 19-13-4 (42 pts) RECORD 26-10-2 (54 pts) Islanders forward, Casey Cizikas set a career-high 4th in Metro STANDINGS 2nd in Atlantic with his 10th of the season last night. Cizikas, W, 6-3 vs OTT LAST GAME W, 4-2 at CBJ 27, currently ranks fourth on the Islanders in goals and is the only Islander to have more than one short- Dec. 31 at BUF NEXT GAME Jan. 3 vs MIN handed point this year. A native of Toronto, Cizikas 15.6% (23rd) POWER-PLAY 24.3% (6th) has nine points (4G, 5A) against his hometown 77.6% (22nd) KILL 80.0% (15th) team, good for second-most against any opponent R. Pulock (22:55) TOI/G M. Rielly (22:27) in his career. SEASON SERIES MATT MARTIN #17 Forward, Matt Martin will play his first game against Dec. 29, 2018: Toronto, ON the Maple Leafs since he returned to the Islanders Feb. 28, 2019: Uniondale, NY after spending the last two seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Martin, 29, has seven points (4G, 3A) in April 01, 2019: Uniondale, NY 25 games this season and leads the team with 109 hits. The Windsor, ON native is one of six current Islanders set to play in his home province of tonight. TEAM LEADERS #16 ISLANDERS MAPLE LEAFS Toronto forward Mitch Marner currently leads the team with 40 assists good for fourth in the NHL LEE (14) GOALS TAVARES (26) and 53 points good for fifth in the League. Marner, BARZAL (25) ASSISTS MARNER (40) 21, has eight points (6G, 2A) in the last six games BARZAL (32) POINTS MARNER (53) against the Islanders including four points (3G, 1A) in three games last season. The Maple Leafs are MAYFIELD (38) PIM HYMAN (42) 9-1-1 when Marner scores a goal this season. EBERLE (3) GWG MATTHEWS (4) NEW YORK ISLANDERS QUICK FACTS

Forward leads the Islanders in TONIGHT’S MATCHUP: points (32), assists (25), and multi-point games The New York Islanders begin a two-game road trip to close out 2018 as they head north of the border and face the Toronto Maple Leafs for the first time this (8) through the first 36 games of the season. season. Saturday’s road matchup marks the only time the Islanders will play in Barzal’s eleven points in December ranks first Toronto for the three-game season series. New York is 4-0-0 in the back end of # on the team (4G, 7A). The reigning Calder back-to-backs this season. Trophy winner has five points in his last three games, including a season-high three points in LAST TIME OUT: 13 last night’s game against Ottawa. The New York Islanders scored four goals in the third period, including two from Mathew Barzal, to turn a 3-2 deficit into a 6-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Friday night in Brooklyn. Barzal had a season-high three point night, while Casey With the come-from-behind win on Friday, Cizikas and each tallied multi-point games as the Islanders improved to 4-1-0 in their last five games. Islanders head coach Barry Trotz is now one win shy of tying Islanders Hall of Fame coach, Al Arbour for fourth place on the all-time on LEE-DING ALL AMERICANS: the career wins list (781). Trotz is set to coach Last night against Ottawa, scored his team-leading 14th goal of the in his 1,560th game tonight in Toronto, which season. Since the start of last season, Lee, an Edina, Minnesota native leads all US-Born players in both goals (54, tied-A. Matthews) & power-play goals (21). leads all active coaches. 1