By eye test, their 3-2 win Monday night in Toronto after an eight-day All-Star break to snap an 0-2-1 skid in which Roy kept saying he saw progress provided a strong template for how they must play in what, very likely, will become another down-to-the-wire playoff push.
The Islanders were hard on the puck. They were physical, outhitting the Maple Leafs 40-25 well before Cal Clutterbuck's late cross-check on John Tavares as the teams wrestled after the final buzzer. They were tenacious as Pierre Engvall scored the winner at 17:58 of the third period after Tavares tied the game on the power play a little more than two minutes earlier.
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