(ANOTHER) BIG GAME

Both the Islanders and Toronto Maple Leafs will look to overtake the other in the Eastern Conference standings when they face off at the Nassau Coliseum Thursday night. The teams sit tied for ninth in the East, one point behind eighth-place Carolina and trailing seventh-place Montreal by two points.

"All the teams are still close," said head coach Ted Nolan. "Teams can go on a long winning streak like Pittsburgh and then they can lose a few in a row, so it all evens out. We knew it would be tight, but we didn't know it would be this tight."

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