His Avalanche teammates kept throwing tissues and tissue boxes toward Brock Nelson in the visitor’s dressing room before Thursday night’s game against the Islanders at UBS Arena.

The gag is that Nelson typically keeps his emotions in check as well as any other NHL player. Perhaps playing his first game on Long Island after 13 seasons as an Islander could be conducive to showing emotion, much as he did in an interview with MSG Network’s Shannon Hogan in his last game at UBS Arena before being traded on March 6.

But Nelson, who had an assist in the Avalanche’s 6-3 loss, kept it in check during a video tribute highlighting his time with the Islanders during a first-period stoppage. The video started with the interview with Hogan and went all the way back to his draft day in 2010, when the I

See Full Page