NEW YORK — Barry Trotz and the Washington Capitals were last in the same building together June 7 Custom Buffalo Sabres Jerseys , when they experienced the cathartic joy of the Capitals’ first Stanley Cup championship.It didn’t take long for joy to be replaced by the cold realities of business for Trotz and the Capitals, who couldn’t agree on terms of a new contract before Trotz, who coached last season as a lame duck, announced he would leave the organization June 18.Three days later, Trotz agreed to become the head coach of the New York Islanders. And on Monday night, 172 days after Washington clinched the Stanley Cup by beating the Vegas Golden Knights, Trotz will finally reunite with his former employers and players when the Islanders host the Capitals at Barclays Center.Article continues below ...Trotz’s past and present teams are both entering the game with momentum. The Capitals extended their winning streak to five games Saturday with a 5-3 win over the host New York Rangers. The Islanders won for the second time in as many days Saturday, when they beat the visiting Carolina Hurricanes, 4-1.Of course, Trotz knows the buzz surrounding Monday’s game has little to do with the recent fortunes of the Islanders and Capitals. After all www.officialflames.com , it’s not every day a head coach receives his Stanley Cup ring while opposing the team whom he steered to the title. (Lane Lambert and Mitch Korn, who were the Capitals’ assistant and goaltending coaches under Trotz last season and are the Islanders’ associate and goaltending coaches this season, are also expected to receive their rings during Washington’s visit.)Trotz is the first coach to leave a Cup-winning team for another head coaching gig since Mike Keenan bolted the Rangers for the St. Louis Blues following the 1993-94 season.The Blues and Rangers didn’t face each other during the lockout-shortened 1995 season, during which teams only played conference foes, so Monday marks the first time in almost 40 seasons a Cup-winning coach will oppose his old team the year after winning the championship. Scotty Bowman, who coached the Montreal Canadiens to four straight Stanley Cups from 1975-76 through 1978-79, departed following the last title to the Buffalo Sabres, who faced the Canadiens four times during the 1979-80 campaign. “It’ll be awkward a little bit,” Trotz said following Saturday’s win. “Just a little bit weird because there’s so many good memories.“They’ve got only a couple new guys, so pretty (much) that whole team is back. They’ve got a tremendous hockey team.”The Capitals (13-7-3) have shook off a Cup hangover to move back into first place in the Metropolitan Division Calgary Flames T-Shirts Authentic , which they won under Trotz each of the last three seasons.“We’re starting to get that feeling again through our room,” Capitals right winger Brett Connolly told the team’s website following Saturday’s win. “We’re starting to get there, like we had towards the end of last year. That’s what we’re working towards. I think we feel it coming a little better.”But the Capitals are just three points ahead of the Islanders (12-8-2), who are tied for third place with the Rangers despite losing center John Tavares to free agency a little more than two weeks after Trotz arrived.A pair of number one goaltenders are expected to oppose each other Monday night. Braden Holtby, who sat in the second game of a back-to-back set Saturday, should start Monday for the first time since Friday, when he stopped 31 shots in the Capitals’ 3-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings.The Islanders are likely to stick with the hot Thomas Greiss, who won both ends of the post-Thanksgiving back-to-back set, including Saturday, when he recorded 26 saves against the Hurricanes.Holtby is 14-4-3 in 21 career regular season games against the Islanders. He was also 3-3 against New York in the Capitals’ seven-game win in the 2015 Eastern Conference quarterfinals. Greiss is 2-1-1 in four games against Washington. TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs remained undefeated on the road Saturday when they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-0 Calgary Flames Hoodies Authentic , but they still must learn how to win consistently at home.The Maple Leafs (9-5-0) will have another chance Tuesday night to take their road show home to the Scotiabank Arena, where they have struggled, when they play the Vegas Golden Knights (6-7-1).The Maple Leafs are 6-0-0 on the road but have lost four of their past five home games, including a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Dallas Stars Thursday.Article continues below ...“I think there are some good things to take away (from Saturday) and we’re looking forward to getting home, it will be important to get some wins at home,” said Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly, who scored twice Saturday.” We feel good about how things have been going on the road, but it’s time we start to assert ourselves in our own building.”Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen stopped 31 shots to earn his first shutout this season and the 16th of his career. He is the first Maple Leafs goalie to earn a shutout against the Penguins since James Reimer on Feb. 1, 2012 and the first with a shutout in Pittsburgh since Mikael Tellqvist on March 19, 2006.“I thought we came out flying Calgary Flames Hats Authentic , skating really well,” Andersen said. “We didn’t really allow them to have too much and we were talking about the first period being a key for us. … I thought we came out really good.”The Golden Knights, who reached the Stanley Cup final in their first season in the NHL, have been hit by the franchise version of the sophomore jinx in the early part of this season.They are, however, coming off a 3-0 home win over the Carolina Hurricanes Saturday that followed a team meeting called by coach Gerard Gallant on Friday.“We have to start playing our game,” Golden Knights defenseman Shea Theodore said before the win over Carolina. “We’re not playing the style that we would like. That’s something we have to get back to. … It’s one of those things that we have to take a step back, kind of re-evaluate the way we’re playing and kind of our team. I think it’s good, and I think we have to get back on the same page.”The Golden Knights had dropped four of five (1-3-1) before the meeting, including two in a row on the road — 4-1 to the Nashville Predators Tuesday and 5-3 to the St. Louis Blues Thursday.Vegas goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 35 shots Saturday to earn his second shutout of the season and the 50th of his career.Fleury said the meeting was a reminder of how the team must play. “(Gallant) didn’t go out there yelling at everybody Custom Calgary Flames Jerseys ,” Fleury said. “Just straightforward, just honest, just making sure we simplify our game. That’s how we’ve had success before. … We didn’t do anything fancy, but we played hard all game and it paid off.”“We played our game (Saturday),” Gallant said. “We’re trying to play a 60-minute game, and we’re trying to compete and battle hard and get back to the things that make us successful and I think (Saturday) we did that.”The game in Toronto is the opener of a four-game trip for the Golden Knights. Vegas left winger Max Pacioretty has missed the past four games with an upper-body injury and is expected to return during the trip, perhaps as early as Tuesday. He practiced with the team Monday in Toronto.“You try to take it one day at a time,” he said after practice Monday “I felt good today. I’ll talk to the trainers, I’ll talk to the coaches and see where it goes.”The Golden Knights will play the Montreal Canadiens Saturday in the third game of the trip. Pacioretty played 10 seasons with Montreal — including his final three there as captain — before being traded to Vegas in September.