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Custom Arizona Coyotes Jerseys , Calif. (AP) — Allowing another late goal could have been debilitating to the New York Rangers. Instead, they managed to bounce back and
get a well-deserved win.Kevin Shattenkirk scored the lone goal in the shootout
and Henrik Lundqvist rebounded after allowing the tying goal with 1.3 seconds
left in regulation, helping the Rangers complete a season sweep of the San Jose
Sharks with a 4-3 victory on Tuesday night.“There was a moment where we were
down and bowed our heads a little bit,” Shattenkirk said. “Take that moment,
take it in and move on. We did a good job of it. … The way we stuck with it was
huge.”Chris Kreider scored two goals in the third period and Mats Zuccarello
also scored for the Rangers, who followed up a 3-2 overtime win at home against
the Sharks earlier this month with another victory.New York has just two wins in
its other 10 games and lost a game Sunday in Los Angeles when the Kings scored
with less than a minute left in regulation.“That’s a good team,” Kreider said.
“It’s a good team we’ve beaten twice now, regardless if we blew the lead. That’s
a good team. We played so much better than we did the past few games. There’s no
reason we can’t do that consistently.”Brent Burns and Timo Meier each scored for
the Sharks to extend their points streaks to a career-high nine games.The Sharks
got Joe Thornton back in the lineup after missing nine games with an infection
in his surgically repaired right knee, but struggled to control the game as
coach Peter DeBoer spent much of the night juggling his lines.“We didn’t have
the start we wanted today,” Meier said. “We were chasing them from behind. We
had a lot of turnovers. We didn’t play our game. We tried to shuffle around the
lines a little bit. We fought back nicely. We tied up at the end. Too bad we
couldn’t get those two points.”Martin Jones made 34 saves for San Jose, but
couldn’t stop Shattenkirk in the third round of the shootout.Lundqvist stopped
Hertl, Logan Couture and Joe Pavelski in the shootout after robbing Burns with
his glove in the final second of overtime for his 31st save of the game.“I don’t
know if I would have made it through the night if they scored with two seconds
to go in overtime as well
www.bruinsshoponline.com ,” said Lundqvist, who was shaken up in the second period after a collision with
teammate Cody McLeod. “It would have been tough to accept. It was just a big
relief to take it to the shootout.”Kreider twice gave the Rangers the lead in
the third only to have the Sharks tie it, with the last coming when Hertl got a
pass in front of the net with the clocking running down and beat Lundqvist to
send the game into overtime.Kreider had given New York a 3-2 lead earlier in the
period after a defensive breakdown by San Jose. Zuccarello was left alone in
front after an offensive zone draw and took a pass from Mike Zibanejad before
feeding Kreider at the side of the net to give New York the lead.Kreider scored
on a one-timer early in the period only to have Meier answer with a shot into
the top corner on a two-on-one.The Sharks struck first when Burns beat Lundqvist
with a big shot from the point less than four minutes into the game, becoming
the first Sharks defenseman to record points in nine straight games.But the
Rangers took over from there, outshooting San Jose 17-6 in the opening period
and getting the equalizer when Zuccarello beat Jones from the top circle less
than a minute after Burns’ goal.“Tonight was one of those tough games you are
coming off the road, it’s a little bit of a trap game,” DeBoer said. “We knew
that coming in. The first period we were on our heels. They were the more
desperate team tonight.”NOTES: Thornton played in his 1,496th career game,
passing Phil Housley for sole possession of 20th place on the all-time list. …
Sharks captain Joe Pavelski played his 900th career game. … F Pavel Buchnevich
was a healthy scratch for New York.UP NEXT:New York: Visit Anaheim on
Thursday.San Jose: Host Columbus on Thursday. ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues
will have a decidedly new look when the puck drops on the team’s season opener
as it hosts the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night.The Blues are going with a youth
movement as prospects Robert Thomas, Jordan Kyrou and Sammy Blais all made the
roster. Blais is the old man of the group at age 22. Thomas, regarded as one of
the Blues’ top prospects, is 19 and Kyrou is 20.What they lack for in
experience
Boston Bruins T-Shirts Womens , St. Louis hopes they make up for in skill.Article continues below ...Blais, who played in 11 games last season, scored a team-high
four preseason goals.“It’s a great feeling,” Blais told the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. “This year I just wanted to stay here all year and keep working
hard and do what I did during the preseason.”Thomas had a goal and three assists
in the preseason.“It’s obviously tough when coming in, with the environment and
everything, and some pressure on you,” Thomas told the Post-Dispatch. “Whenever
you’re trying to make a team, you always focus on stuff, (but) sometimes it’s
just better to relax and have fun each day.”Kyrou scored a goal and an assist in
the preseason opener in Dallas on Sept. 18. He added two more assists to cement
a roster spot.“I just feel a lot more comfortable out there (this year),” Kyrou
told the Post-Dispatch. “My speed is a big factor, so I really feel like I can
skate out there, create a lot of opportunities.”The trio joins veterans Pat
Maroon
Boston Bruins Hoodies Womens , Ryan O’Reilly and David Perron as newcomers. All six players start the season as part of the Blues’ top 12 forwards.The Blues start
the season with no reserve forwards and will carry nine defensemen, two more
than usual. The team elected to go with the extra defensemen as Robert Bortuzzo
will serve the final game of a three-game suspension against the Jets and Joel
Edmundson is dealing with a groin injury.The Blues and Jets split their four
games last season, with each team winning one and losing one on home ice.After a
114-point season and a second-place finish in the rugged Central Division, the
Jets are dealing with high expectations. ESPN ranked the Jets No. 1 in its
preseason power rankings and nine of Sportsnet’s NHL Insiders predicted that the
team will win the Stanley Cup this season.Jets coach Paul Maurice said the team
isn’t interested in what others are saying.“They all have a really good
understanding of the value of a prediction,” Maurice told NHL.com. “We don’t
want to downplay it. Go through the list and find one that was picked first, won
the Presidents (Trophy) and won the Cup. Right, there’s a bunch of good teams at
the top and there’s a bunch of really good teams that miss the playoffs. It
happens every year. And you don’t want to be that team, right? You want to be
that team over the course of the year that gets stronger and gets better.“We
believe we have enough talent now to be a good team but an understanding that
maybe that’s a smaller fraction of the whole pie that goes into having a year
like last year.”
