Jonathan Drouin scored the tying goal with 6:16 to go in the third period Friday night to help the Islanders claim a 3-2 OT victory over the Mammoth.
There will be multiple storylines as the Islanders pull into Denver for Sunday’s meeting with the Avalanche, the fifth game on this seven-stop road trip.
Brock Nelson will skate for the first time against the Islanders after playing 901 regular-season games and scoring 295 goals for them.
He ranks fifth in club history in both goals and games played. Islanders coach Patrick Roy will be facing a Colorado franchise for which he played eight seasons and hoisted the Stanley Cup twice.
Not to get lost amid that hoopla, though, is the return to the Rockies of Jonathan Drouin, who scored 30 goals in 122 games there before becoming the Islanders’ key outside acquisition of the offseason when he signed a two-year, $8 million free-agent contract.
