The Avalanche are hoping to get more out of center Nathan MacKinnon, who has no points in his past three games and one assist in his past four after scoring two goals and an assist in Game 1, a 7-1 Colorado win.
The New York Islanders pride themselves on being a four-line team that gets contributions from players throughout the lineup and that proved to be the difference in the Stanley Cup Second Round against the Boston Bruins.
But it wasn’t all about personnel, even in a season when the Bruins lost defensemen Torey Krug and Zdeno Chara to free agency and went with some new blood.
It was 1-1 after the first period, but New York scored three goals in the second to go up 4-1. Marchand scored his second power-play goal of the game at 5:38 of the third period to make it 4-2, but the Islanders closed it down from there and scored two empty-net goals.
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