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PITTSBURGH (AP) Alex Ovechkin knocked his own rebound out of midair and by Matt Murray with 1:07 remaining to lift the Washington Capitals to a 4-3 victory on Tuesday night in Game 3 of their increasingly testy Eastern Conference semifinal series with Pittsburgh.Ovechkin gave the Capitals a 2-1 series lead when he collected a pass from Nicklas Backstrom and fired a shot that ripped by Murray before hitting the right post.Ovechkin stayed with it and his baseball-like swat gave him eight goals in the playoffs and the Capitals their fourth consecutive road win in the postseason.Ovechkin has also scored in four consecutive playoff games this postseason.Matt Niskanen Dallas Stars Hoodies Authentic , John Carlson and Chandler Stephenson also scored for Washington. Braden Holtby finished with 19 saves. Backstrom had three assists.Jake Guentzel had a goal and an assist for Pittsburgh. Sidney Crosby and Patric Hornqvist also scored, but the Penguins lost consecutive playoff games for only the fourth time since the start of their runs to consecutive Stanley Cups began in 2016.Matt Murray made 18 stops but couldn’t get his glove – a problem area all postseason – on Ovechkin’s initial shot, allowing the Russian star to have a shot at the rebound.JETS 7, PREDATORS 4WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) – Blake Wheeler scored on the power play with 4:59 to play and Winnipeg roared back from an early 3-0 deficit to defeat Nashville and grab a 2-1 lead in the second-round playoff series.After missing on a number of earlier chances, the Jets captain connected on a rebound off Mark Scheifele’s shot from a tight angle for his second of the postseason.Dustin Byfuglien had two goals and an assist for Winnipeg, while Paul Stastny added a goal and two assists.Wheeler also had an assist and added the empty-netter with under a minute to play. Brandon Tanev also scored with Rinne on the bench in the game’s final minute.Jacob Trouba scored a goal and set up another for a two-point night. Connor Hellebuyck made 26 stops.Filip Forsberg and P.K. Subban each had a goal and an assist for Nashville, while Mike Fisher and Austin Watson also scored.Mattias Ekholm and Ryan Johansen both added two assists for the Predators Dallas Stars Hats Authentic , who got 38 stops from Pekka Rinne.— The Vegas Golden Knights and Anaheim Ducks are not off to the kind of start they envisioned heading into the season, but they remain in the thick of a wide-open Pacific Division. Heading into Tuesday’s games, only five points separated the top six teams — from upstart Vancouver with 22 points (10-7-2) to Arizona (8-7-1) and Edmonton (8-8-1) with 17 points. Vegas (7-10-1) hosts Anaheim (8-8-3, 19 points) on Wednesday as the seventh-place team with 15 points. In their inaugural season last year, the Golden Knights beat the Ducks in the Western Conference semifinals on their way to a berth in the Stanley Cup Finals against eventual champion Washington.Article continues below ...“I think it’s fortunate for us right now that it is (wide open),” Vegas defenseman Colin Miller told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “We know that we haven’t been playing our best and we really need to turn it around if we want to do something this year.”The Knights have a chance to make up ground with eight of their next 10 games against division opponents, starting against Anaheim, which is coming off a 2-1 shootout victory over Nashville on Monday night.“I feel like that’s every year. You come out thinking teams are going to do something and they don’t Custom Dallas Stars Jerseys ,” defenseman Nick Holden told the Review-Journal. “For us, we were hoping to have a better record than we do right now, but it’s good that we really haven’t played our division a ton, maybe gain some ground once we start playing those teams.”In the most recent game Sunday, the Knights lost 4-1 in Boston in the 100th regular-season game in franchise history. They have the second-most victories in league history by a team in its first 100 regular-season games (58-34-. The Ottawa Senators, who compiled a 63-37 record, had more victories in their first 100 games.Miller is one of two players to appear in every game for the Knights along with center William Karlsson. “It’s gone quick,” Miller said. “Looking back now www.officialredwings.com , I don’t think it’s felt like 100 games, but it’s been exciting. Obviously last year was pretty special and this year we’re finding our way a bit. So try to make it a good one.”Anaheim comes into Vegas full of momentum after handing Nashville only its third loss of the season. The Predators lead the Central Division with 27 points at 13-3-1.Rickard Rakell scored his first career game-deciding goal in the shootout and improved to 7-for-20 in his career. Pontus Aberg opened the shootout with his first career shootout goal in his second career attempt.“I had a little plan before I went out there,” Rakell said. “Previous times this year hasn’t really worked for me, so I just tried to throw everything out there. It was really nice to see it go in.“(Beating the league-leading Predators) was a great test for us, especially playing against those guys. It shows we can play with any team in this league.”For the Ducks, it was their 10th game allowing two goals or fewer this season. Anaheim ranks tied for second among NHL teams in games allowing two or fewer goals with Vancouver and Nashville. Boston leads with 11 games.Anaheim was also 7 of 7 on the penalty kill against Nashville. In the last five games, Anaheim has successfully killed 19 of 21(90.5 percent) opponent power-play opportunities. |
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