Wedgewood & Nelson Shine, Colorado Bests Roy and NYI in 4-1 Win

Wedgie keeps rolling along, Nelson nets 2 points against former team

This team is eventually going to lose again. At some point, there will be a night where they don’t put it all together, don’t get a bounce, don’t get a point.

There’s going to be a game where the opposition simply outplays them.

It’s not sustainable over the course of an 82-game season for the Colorado Avalanche to look this unbeatable. There willbe nights when they come away empty-handed.

But Sunday was not one of those nights.

Once again, the Avalanche absorbed their opponent’s best punch and fired back harder, skating away with a 4–1 win over visiting New York.

The Islanders arrived at Ball Arena with all the brash confidence you’d expect from a Patrick Roy team riding a four-game winning streak — three straight in overtime — including back-to-back OT victories to open western portion of the current seven-game road swing. They were winning tight games, leaning into their identity as one of the league’s toughest, most aggravating teams to play against.

And early on, they looked the part.