Brock Nelson had a goal and an assist and the New York Islanders took down the NHL-leading Winnipeg Jets 3-2 on Tuesday night. Kyle Palmieri and Ryan Pulock also scored, and Ilya Sorokin finished with 27 saves for New York in its final game before the NHL trade deadline and a three-game west-coast road trip.

Pending unrestricted free agents Brock Nelson — No. 1 on many trade target projection boards — and Kyle Palmieri both scored and were the first and second stars, respectively, in a 3-2 win over the NHL-leading Jets on Tuesday night at UBS Arena in what may have been their final games with the Islanders.

If this final game before the trade deadline doubled as the final game in Islander colors for Brock Nelson and Kyle Palmieri, then at least it was a good one. And if it was the symbolic final game of this era of Islanders hockey,