TORONTO — Rick DiPietro made 39 saves, and Viktor Kozlov and Frans Nielsen scored in the shootout to lead the Islanders to a 3–2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs last night.

Trent Hunter and Miroslav Satan scored in regulation for the Islanders, who tied the Maple Leafs in the Eastern Conference standings with their 61st point. New York had gone 0–10–1 in its last 11 visits at Toronto.

DiPietro stopped 16 shots in the third and made two big saves on Alexei Ponikarovsky and Nik Antropov in the shootout.

Pavel Kubina and Bates Battaglia scored for the Maple Leafs, 11–13–4 at home this season. Only Philadelphia, the NHL’s worst team, has fewer home victories than the Leafs with five. Nielsen and Kozlov both scored on backhanded shots in the shootout.

Kubina, who signed a four-year, $20 million contract in the offseason, scored just his fifth goal when his point shot beat DiPietro at 6:14 of the first.

The Islanders took the lead in the second with two goals scored 27 seconds apart. Hunter tied it with a wrist shot glove side at 4:49 of the second — the kind of goal Andrew Raycroft has often given up lately. Satan scored on a back-handed shot from the side of the net.

Battaglia tied it by skating from behind the net and putting a backhander past DiPietro.

DiPietro made several impressive saves in the third when Toronto outshot New York 16–1. He robbed Tomas Kaberle of a goal with a sprawling glove save five minutes into the period and made another nice glove stop on Boyd Devereaux late in the frame.