DENVER (AP) — On one sequence http://www.starsshoponline.com/authentic-brett-ritchie-jersey , the Islanders‘ Joshua Ho-Sang got whistled for two different hooking penalties. That was four minutes of power-play time.Colorado couldn’t score. New York was let off the hook.Instant momentum changer.Goaltender Thomas Greiss bottled up Colorado’s fast-flying offense, Johnny Boychuk scored his first goal of the season and the Islanders beat the Avalanche 4-1 on Monday night.“It was definitely a swing that could’ve gone either way,” Anders Lee said of the second-period hooking calls that came with New York holding a 2-1 lead. “Everyone on those units did a great job getting the puck down the ice and keeping them at bay. Four minutes against this power play is a tough thing to ask for. Our boys did it.”Jordan Eberle and Lee also scored while Valtteri Filppula added an empty-netter as the Islanders began a four-game trip in fine fashion. Greiss made 30 saves and helped put an end to Mikko Rantanen’s string of 14 straight games with at least a point. The streak was tied for the Avalanche’s third-longest since the team moved to town in 1995-96.Gabriel Landeskog scored Colorado’s only goal. Really, though, the Avalanche’s top line of Landeskog, Rantanen and Nathan MacKinnon were pretty much held in check all evening. They combined for 12 shots.“Everybody knows they’re the engine of the whole team,” Greiss said. “If you can shut them down it’s a big part of their game. It was huge to play really well against them.”It’s not every night a player gets whistled for double hooking penalties before the whistle is blown. But Ho-Sang hooked Sven Andrighetto and Gabriel Bourque.“If they score there, that could’ve been a game changer,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz said. “We actually got some momentum off of that.”Semyon Varlamov struggled yet again, allowing three goals on 20 shots. He’s surrendered 21 over his last five appearances.“He was OK. Our whole team, I thought we were just OK,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “I thought they were the hungrier team tonight. They did a really nice job defending.”There was a scary moment late in the second when Islanders defenseman Thomas Hickey missed a check on Tyson Jost, slid across the ice and crashed his head and back into the boards. He was helped off the ice by trainers and didn’t return. Moments later Dennis Cholowski Jersey Womens , center Brock Nelson gingerly skated off after being hit in the left leg on a knee check from Ian Cole that drew a penalty. Nelson didn’t return, either.After the game, Trotz had no updates on their injuries.Down 2-0 in the second, Landeskog tipped in a shot from Tyson Barrie for a power-play goal. It was Barrie’s 207th career assist, tying him with John-Michael Liles for the most among defensemen in franchise history.“It would have been a lot sweeter if it was a different outcome tonight,” Barrie said. “We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us yet.”Eberle staked the Islanders a 1-0 lead with 1:40 remaining in the first period. That was Eberle’s seventh goal of the season and first since Nov. 23.“We just played a smart game,” Lee said. “From Greiss on out, we played really well.”NOTES: Boychuk was a second-round pick by Colorado in 2002 before being traded in 2008. … F Alexander Kerfoot (upper body injury) could resume skating with the team Tuesday at practice. He’s missed four straight games. … Colorado recalled C Sheldon Dries from the Colorado Eagles of the AHL. The team reassigned D Mark Alt and F A.J. Greer to the Eagles. … Colorado dropped to 1-3-1 over its last five games. … Rantanen wasn’t lamenting the end of his streak. “Our goal has to be to win the last three games and get a little streak going before going to Christmas break,” he said.UP NEXTIslanders: Game No. 2 of their trip is Tuesday in Arizona.Avalanche: Host Montreal on Wednesday. GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Brandon Pirri has had a late December to remember for the Vegas Golden Knights.The journeyman forward had a goal and assist in the Golden Knights’ 5-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Sunday night, and has five goals as part of his seven points in the six games he’s played for Vegas this season.Pirri failed to register a point in only one of those games. He’s been a regular since Dec. 20.“It’s a lot of fun playing here because everyone’s contributing,” Pirri said. “Things are going good. I’ve always believed in myself and I’m getting the opportunity. When you get the opportunity you have to reward the people that put you in this spot and at the same time I have to reward myself. I put in a lot of work.”Paul Stastny also had a goal and an assist and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 29 shots for Vegas. Reilly Smith, Cody Eakin and Ryan Carpenter also scored to help Vegas win its third straight and extend its points streak to six games.The Golden Knights have won five of six games against Arizona since Vegas entered the NHL last season.“We played hard http://www.starsshoponline.com/authentic-devin-shore-jersey , we played quick. We were good with the forecheck, we were good with the puck and we didn’t make a lot of mistakes,” forward Jonathan Marchessault said.A large following of Golden Knights fans made plenty of noise for the visiting team in the most recent installment of the fledgling rivalry, and saw their team take control with three goals in the third period.The third was a short-handed goal from Carpenter, his second goal of the season.Just when the Golden Knights’ first power play ended, Pirri got a rebound behind the net and backhanded the puck back toward the crease, where Stastny was waiting to stuff it in at 3:35 of the first.Arizona’s Nick Schmaltz appeared to tie at 1 with 8:54 left in the second period, but the goal was reviewed on a coaches’ challenge and overturned for offside.Vegas made it 2-0 with 3:57 to play in the second. Brad Hunt tipped a loose puck in front, and Smith got to it first for a shot that zipped past Darcy Kuemper.Kuemper finished with 33 saves.The Coyotes took advantage of a 5-on-3 power play with two Golden Knights in the penalty box to get their lone goal at the 2:58 mark of the second. Alex Galchenyuk scored, with Oliver Ekman-Larsson getting the assist.Ekman-Larsson reached 312 career points, passing Keith Yandle for the most points in franchise history for a defenseman.Galchenyuk ran his points streak to five games, in which he has totaled seven points.Eakin edged the puck over the goal line at 4:21 of the third for his 12th goal of the season, and Pirri scored on a breakaway less than three minutes later.“I liked the way we played all night Womens Esa Lindell Jersey , not just the third period,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said.Arizona started the third period on a power play — one of six on the night — but couldn’t produce and fell further behind.A frustrated Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet called his team’s effort an implosion less than 24 hours after Arizona got an overtime win at Anaheim.“Just very casual from a lot of key guys,” Tocchet said. “I just saw a team go totally south on us. You want to be a good NHL hockey team or a player, you’ve got to be consistent. … So maybe we have some players here that just can’t do it regularly and we’re going to have to find some players that will.”NOTES: Coyotes F Brad Richardson missed his third straight game with an illness. … D Kevin Connauton was shaken up in the first period and left the ice, but returned for a shift in the final seconds of the period and stayed in the game. … Vegas F Valentin Zykov, just claimed off waivers on Saturday, was scratched. So was F Tomas Nosek, who missed his first game since Dec. 20. … F Alex Tuch was given a penalty for a check to the head when he drove a shoulder into Arizona’s Nick Cousins, which led to the Coyotes’ power-play goal in the second.UP NEXTVegas: Hosts Los Angeles on Tuesday night.Arizona: Hosts Edmonton on Wednesday night.