Thomas Vanek and John Tavares had point streaks broken, but a
more important streak grew: The New York Islanders won their
sixth consecutive road game (and oddly grew to 8-0-2-1 in their
last 11 in Denver) thanks to Michael Grabner's overtime winner
for a 2-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche.  A low-scoring, low-
penalty game was tilted by a rush goal by Colorado rookie Nathan
MacKinnon, and leveled by a goal from the slot from Brock
Nelson, who was belly-down on the ice just seconds before his
equalizer just 4:28 into the third period.  Ryan Strome's
giveaway later in the period nearly ended up as a go-ahead goal,
but Kevin Poulin stopped Cody McLeod's point-blank shot.
Tavares and Kyle Okposo generated a couple of two-on-one
opportunities that might have broken the game, but instead it
was the Austrian Grabner, snakebitten for so much of this
season, who played the hero.  Ostensibly, it was another rookie,
Matt Donovan, who MacKinnon blew by for his goal (though Thomas
Hickey's failed dump started the Avs co