New York Islanders (10-6-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (12-1-5, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Denver; Sunday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders visit the Colorado Avalanche seeking to build upon a four-game win streak.<\/p>\n
Colorado has a 6-0-2 record at home and a 12-1-5 record overall. The Avalanche are 4-0-2 in games they score one or more power-play goals.<\/p>\n
New York is 10-6-2 overall and 6-3-1 in road games. The Islanders have a 10-1-2 record when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Artturi Lehkonen has scored eight goals with 10 assists for the Avalanche. Nathan MacKinnon has eight goals and 14 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mathew Barzal has five goals and 10 assists for the Islanders. Bo Horvat has seven goals and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Avalanche: 7-1-2, averaging 4.6 goals, 8.5 assists, four penalties and 8.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Islanders: 6-3-1, averaging three goals, 4.9 assists, four penalties and 8.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Avalanche: None listed.<\/p>\n
Islanders: None listed.<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Islanders (10-6-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (12-1-5, in the Central Division) Denver; Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23488,597,9,11,10,7622,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-40462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-23488","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}