It’s going to be hard to win games when the shorthanded Colorado Avalanche play well. It is impossible when the Avs play the way they did Monday night.

Brock Nelson scored his first two goals of the season 2:49 apart in the second period, and the New York Islanders beat the Colorado Avalanche 6-2 to give coach Patrick Roy a win in his first game back in Denver.

"I always have the Avs in my heart," the legendary goaltender and former Colorado coach said of his former club.

DENVER -- Patrick Roy will coach for the first time in Denver on Monday when the New York Islanders play the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena (9 p.m. ET; MSGSN, ALT, TVAS). Roy, who won the Stanley Cup twice as the Avalanche goalie (1996, 2001), coached them from 2014-2016 before abruptly resigning on Aug. 11, 2016.

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The Islanders early western road trip resumes tonight in Denver, where the Colorado Avalanche are 0-2 on the young season. They’ve recently claimed goalie Kaapo Kahkonen off waivers, and of course they’re without Gabriel Landeskog and Jonathan Drouin due to injuries at opposite ends of the recovery spectrum,

Patrick Roy had done the hard part, looking inward and shifting his methods, going back to junior hockey with the Quebec Remparts and proving he could still win there. This was everything in his power to prove,