Islanders topple Avalanche to pick up best win of season, spoil Brock Nelson’s return
NY Post
Brock Nelson got his standing ovation.
The Islanders got their two points.
Maybe that wasn’t how Nelson envisioned his return to UBS Arena going, and who could blame him given that the Avalanche had lost just once in regulation all year and once in their last 13 games.
But a night that started out being about Nelson’s first game back on Long Island became about the Islanders getting their best win of the season so far, beating a juggernaut Avalanche team 6-3 on Thursday night to finish a rocky seven-game homestand strong.
It was just over a couple of weeks ago that the Islanders thought they played their best game of a seven-game road trip in Denver, only for it to be the only game they lost on that swing.
They will feel more than validated by what they saw Thursday, when a lineup without Jonathan Drouin — scratched after taking warmups due to a lower-back injury and called day to day — not only hung around with the current Stanley Cup favorites, but never trailed.
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