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Authentic Justin Bailey Jersey , N.C. (AP) — Montreal goaltender Carey Price for 54 minutes.Price turned
away shot after shot, to the point that even Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour
thought there was no way his team was going to find the net.Then, everything
changed.Andrei Svechnikov scored with 1:45 left in overtime as the Hurricanes
rallied to beat the Canadiens 2-1 in a matchup with Eastern Conference playoff
implications.Carolina’s Trevor van Riemsdyk scored the tying goal with 5:39
remaining, and Svechnikov ended it with a wrist shot through Price’s legs in the
extra session.After Price stopped Carolina’s first 36 shots, he allowed two
goals on the final four shots he faced.“It didn’t look like it was going to
happen,” Brind’Amour said. “You’re hoping for one or two or three Grade-A
chances in the third and we had more than that. So it was like, if those aren’t
going in, what’s going to go in?”What went in was van Riemsdyk’s wrist shot from
the point through traffic that clipped the skate of Montreal defenseman Jordie
Benn and found the bottom left corner of the net.It was a critical goal from an
improbable source in van Riemsdyk, who scored for just the third time this
season.“Obviously you know you’re playing one of the best goalies in the world,
if not the best goalie in the world
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get frustrated. We just kept trudging away.”After jumping off the bench on a
line change in overtime, Svechnikov took a pass from Jordan Staal, skated down
the right side and whipped the puck through Price’s legs to end it.“We’re
disappointed, we came here to win,” Canadiens coach Claude Julien said. “We
needed to protect the house and they ruined it pretty good there.”Curtis
McElhinney stopped 28 shots for Carolina, which has won six of eight.With the
win, the Hurricanes remained alone in the first wild card spot in the Eastern
Conference. Montreal squandered a chance to move into a tie with Carolina with a
win.Paul Byron scored in the first period as Montreal had its three-game winning
streak snapped.The Canadiens had plenty of chances.They got the scoring started
when Brendan Gallagher fired a shot from the left faceoff circle that was
deflected by Teuvo Teravainen. But the rolling puck went straight to Byron along
the far post, and he buried it.The Canadiens had other opportunities, too. Jeff
Petry hit the post in the first period
http://www.officialsabres.com/authentic-adidas-rasmus-ristolainen-jersey , and in the second, Tomas Tatar also hit a post. Jesperi Kotkaniemi had a
breakaway denied by McElhinney and Nate Thompson’s point-blank shot in the
crease after a turnover was stuffed by McElhinney, as well.“(McEhinney) just
played an unbelievable game,” Svechnikov said. “He kept us in that game, for
sure.”“There’s no nerves to his game and it settles our group down,” Brind’Amour
said. “You can’t say enough good things. He went toe-to-toe with the best goalie
in the world and he certainly didn’t take a back seat.”The Hurricanes finally
put the pressure on in the third period, but couldn’t solve Price. Sebastain Aho
was robbed of two prime scoring chances, and Teravainen couldn’t convert a
breakaway with just under nine minutes remaining.But just when it looked as if
Price was headed to a shutout, van Riemdsyk found the net, and the Hurricanes
turned the tables to move closer to ending their nine-year playoff drought.“This
was a fun one tonight
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some tough games, some tough periods where we just kind of hung in there, and it
showed tonight.”NOTES: The Hurricanes improved to 12-3-1 in the second game of
back-to-backs this season. … Svechnikov, 18, became the youngest player in
Hurricanes franchise history to score an overtime goal. . Staal extended his
point streak to three games. . Micheal Ferland set a single-season career high
with his 21st assist. . Price was starting on back-to-back nights for the third
time in four days. … The game was broadcast on Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples
Television Network in Plains Cree, the first time an NHL broadcast has aired in
the Indigenous language.UP NEXTCanadiens: Host Florida on Tuesday.Hurricanes: At
Washington on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Kings are finally playing the way many
expected this season, and they’ll bring a season-long four-game winning streak
into their matchup against the visiting Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday at
Staples Center.The Kings defeated the Golden Knights 4-3 in overtime on Sunday
and return to Las Vegas again Tuesday for the fourth and final meeting between
these teams this season. Los Angeles also beat visiting Vegas 5-1 on Dec.
8.“We’re trying to just take it one game at a time, quite honestly,” Kings
forward Dustin Brown said after scoring the go-ahead goal in a 2-1 win Thursday
night against the visiting Arizona Coyotes. “We put ourselves in a pretty big
hole.”Article continues below ...The Kings (15-20-3) were 4-8-1 when they fired
coach John Stevens on Nov. 4, and just 5-8 in the first 13 games under Willie
Desjardins. They won three games in a row for the first time this season when
they defeated the Golden Knights last weekend.The Pacific Division is a lot
tighter among the top teams in the standings than it was last season
Chicago Blackhawks T-Shirts Womens , leaving the Kings just eight points behind the final playoff spot heading into Friday. Brown, one of a handful of core players
for the Kings who won Stanley Cup titles in 2012 and 2014, said it’s too early
to start thinking about playoff positioning.“I think it’s more important for our
group, especially the young guys on our team, to understand how we need to play
to win,” Brown said. “We didn’t do it for a big stretch of games early. I think
we have played better. I thought (Thursday) was not our best game. It’s more
important that we start to learn. We have a lot of new guys with not a lot of
experience of what it takes to win at this level.”Vegas (21-15-4) reached the
Stanley Cup Finals in their first year of existence last season. The Golden
Knights haven’t been as hot through the first half as they were last season,
when they accumulated 58 points (28-10-2) through the first 40 games.Vegas made
one of the biggest offseason acquisitions in the NHL when they traded for left
wing Max Pacioretty, a five-time 30-goal scorer with the Montreal Canadiens.
Pacioretty had 10 goals in 30 games with Vegas but sustained a lower-body injury
against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Dec. 17 and has missed the past four
games.Pacioretty is eligible to come off injured reserve against the Kings, but
the Golden Knights may not rush him back, especially with how his replacement on
the second line
Sam Reinhart Jersey , Brandon Pirri, has been playing lately.Pirri has four goals and an assist in five games in December. He was called up from the
Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League for the second time this month on
Thursday and scored the game-winner midway through the third period of a 2-1 win
against the visiting Colorado Avalanche.“If I’m going to contribute, it’s going
to be scoring goals,” Pirri told reporters afterward. “My confidence never
wavered. I always believed in myself. This is just another opportunity to prove
myself.”
