Brock Nelson had a goal and an assist, and Victor Olofsson, Ross Colton and Martin Necas scored for the Avalanche (13-1-5), who have won six straight and are 8-0-2 during the point streak.

“I think you’ve got two teams checking the right way, playing tight defensively, not a lot going on offensively,” Bednar said. “So, it was a little bit of a grind on both sides of it. You play the game that’s in front of you, that’s what it is, so you got to find a way to just keep grinding through it and chip in one more than they do, and we were able to do that tonight.”

Emil Heineman scored, and Ilya Sorokin made 24 saves for the Islanders (10-7-2), who had won the first four games of their seven-game road trip.

“It was a hard-fought game. I thought we played really well, and their goaltender was the story of the game,” Roy said. “He made some really good saves, especially on our power play. I mean, we had a lot of good looks, and he made those saves. I thought it was a great team effort. I mean, it was probably our best game of the road trip, to be honest. I thought we played really well.”

Heineman gave New York a 1-0 lead at 2:05 of the first period when Tony DeAngelo‘s shot from the top of the right circle deflected five-hole off his left skate in the low slot.

“It was a good hockey game, I think that’s what it was tonight,” Islanders captain Anders Lee said. “I thought both teams played well at times, and both goaltenders were great. Special teams, it had it all. We just found ourselves down one late and couldn’t find a find a [goal].”

Colton tied it 1-1 at 4:32 of the second period. He received a stretch pass from Cale Makar, skated in on a rush, and scored short side from the left circle with a wrist shot that went under the blocker arm of Sorokin.

Olofsson gave Colorado a 2-1 lead at 5:51, redirecting Sam Malinski’s shot from the right point over Sorokin’s glove.

“I tried to do it, and sometimes you get lucky,” Olofsson said. “It was a good shot by Sam, and I just tried to get my stick on it. It’s tough to kind of know where your redirections are going sometimes, but I was lucky it found the back of the net.”