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NEW YORK — as one of the surprise stories of the NHL by dominating within their division. Now the Islanders will look to see if they can carry that over to non-Metropolitan Division foes.The Islanders will look to extend the Eastern Conference’s longest winning streak on Monday night Youth Matthew Tkachuk Jersey , when they host the Montreal Canadiens at Barclays Center.Both teams were off Sunday after playing Saturday, when the Islanders won their fifth straight game by blanking the visiting New Jersey Devils, 3-0, and the host Canadiens fell to the Tampa Bay Lightning, 4-1.Article continues below ...All five wins by the Islanders (8-4-1) have come within the division. New York, which is atop the Metropolitan Division, is 6-0-0 against the Metro, its best divisional start since it was 6-0-0 against the Patrick Division in 1982-83.While it’s unlikely the Islanders will remain perfect within the division, the plethora of so-called “four-point wins” has given them a little bit more margin for error going forward. New York, which was predicted by most to miss the playoffs following the free agent departure of star center John Tavares Michael Frolik Jersey , has an 84.9 percent chance to reach the postseason, according to the playoff probability report issued Sunday by the hockey-reference.com website.“These are big points, especially early on,” said Islanders center Brock Nelson, who scored his team-high seventh goal Saturday night. “Lind of stack as many as you can right away. To go 6-0 right away off the hop obviously is great for us.”The Canadiens (7-4-2) are also off to a surprising start after missing the playoffs in two of the previous three seasons, though Montreal has slowed a bit by alternating losses with wins in each of its last seven games.Things aren’t likely to get any easier Monday for the Canadiens, who have scored one goal in each of their last two losses. Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss, who is likely to draw the start Monday, authored a shutout Saturday night, when he made 35 saves against the Devils Authentic Mikael Backlund Jersey , and has allowed just three goals on 79 shots in his last three appearances.“Every goalie that you face is in the NHL for a reason,” Canadiens left winger Max Domi told reporters Saturday after he scored the only goal against the Lightning’s Andrei Vasilevskiy, who made 34 saves. “They’re going to do their job and try and stop the puck and we’ve got to do our job and kind of break that. We weren’t able to do that tonight.”Carey Price, who has made four straight starts, appears in line to start again Monday night in the opener of a back-to-back set in New York for the Canadiens. Montreal visits the Rangers on Tuesday night. Price took the loss Saturday after making 32 saves against the Lightning.Greiss is 3-3-0 in six career games against the Canadiens. Price is 11-5-4 in 20 appearances against the Islanders. OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — The Ottawa Senators have experienced third-period woes a few times already this season, and coach Guy Boucher was thinking about that as his club nearly gave up a three-goal lead.Craig Anderson made 21 of his 46 saves in the third period and Ottawa held off the Buffalo Sabres 4-2 on Thursday night in the first game of a home-and-home series.“In the third period I kind of had it in the back of my mind that if they did score early we would be fragile and that’s exactly how it was,” Boucher said. “It was tough for us to sustain what we did for two periods, for three periods. It’s a confidence issue there, it’s an experience issue there Mike Smith Jersey , but at the end the guys pushed hard, Andy was outstanding.”Ryan Dzingel, Dylan DeMelo, Colin White and Bobby Ryan, into an empty net, scored for the Senators. Thomas Chabot and Mark Stone each had two assists.Jason Pominville, playing in his 1,000th NHL game, and Jeff Skinner scored for the Sabres, and Carter Hutton made 28 saves.Buffalo scored twice in the first minutes of the third period to cut it to 3-2.Pominville scored 59 seconds in when he tipped a point shot from Jack Eichel past Anderson. Skinner scored on the power play at 3:55 on a near identical goal as he tipped Rasmus Ristolainen’s point shot.“Obviously Artemi Panarin Jersey , we probably weren’t ready to start and we talked about staying out of the box, I know it’s part of the game, but the last couple of games we’ve taken too many penalties and kind of got ourselves behind the eight ball,” Pominville said. “But that third period we were going. We were on our toes, we had some zone time and we had some scoring chances.”NOTES: The Senators played the 1,000th home game in franchise history. … Erik Burgdoerfer and Mark Borowiecki were scratches for the Senators. Evan Rodrigues, Tage Thompson and Nathan Beaulieu were scratches for the Sabres.UP NEXT:The teams meet again in Buffalo on Saturday.