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Montreal Canadiens Hats Authentic , Ariz. (AP) The Montreal Canadiens scored twice within two minutes of the third period to turn a 3-0 deficit into a
one-goal game, and Arizona Coyotes goalie Antti Raanta wasn’t happy.He shouted
at his teammates on the bench during a break in the action, and the Coyotes
responded. They scored two goals and finished off a 5-2 win over the Canadiens
Thursday night.”Hopefully I don’t need to do that anymore,” Raanta said. ”Great
to get the win but also learn from those mistakes.”Article continues below
...Raanta could laugh about it after the game, but coach Rick Tocchet and his
staff were happy to see some fire from their No. 1 goaltender.”That woke our
team up. I love that,” Tocchet said.Brendan Perlini scored twice in a 19-second
span in the second period, and the Coyotes got their third straight win and
fourth in five games.Perlini scored his first two goals since a four-game streak
from Jan. 18-25. Tobias Rieder had a goal and assist in the third period to help
the Coyotes hold off Montreal.”We’re just trying to get better every day. Last
few games have been good for us but we still have a lot to learn and a lot to
prove,” Perlini said.Clayton Keller had a goal and three assists, and Raanta
made 34 saves for the Coyotes. They have earned points in five straight
games.The Canadiens
Custom Montreal Canadiens Jerseys , on the second night of a back-to-back after playing at Colorado on Wednesday, lost their fourth straight. Brendan
Gallagher scored his team-leading 21st goal of the season.Gallagher and Daniel
Carr scored less than two minutes apart in the third to cut the Coyotes’ lead to
3-2. Carr stuffed in the puck right after Arizona’s Max Domi miraculously
stopped a shot by reaching his stick across the goal mouth and knocking it
away.Rieder’s power-play goal at 10:46 gave the Coyotes a key insurance goal.
Then, Josh Archibald’s backhander with 3:59 to play made it 5-2.Keller’s pass
from behind the net found Perlini for Perlini’s first goal 57 seconds into the
second, and he got an assist on Perlini’s breakaway goal at 1:16.Oliver
Ekman-Larsson also had three assists, the second one being the pass ahead to
Perlini for his second goal of the night and 16th of the season.Carey Price had
16 stops for Montreal.Keller’s third goal in five games gave the Coyotes a 1-0
lead at 13:56 of the first period. After a boarding penalty to Montreal’s Max
Pacioretty gave the Coyotes a power play, Keller took a pass from Ekman-Larsson
and had plenty of time to load up a wrist shot that zipped past Price.Keller had
hit the goal post with a shot moments before. He registered his team-leading
17th goal of the season and set a career high with a four-point game.”Good power
play. Just getting shots early there leads to passing lanes,” Keller
said.Raanta’s best save of the night came just over five minutes into the game.
He reached far to his left for a glove save on Nikita Scherbak’s shot that was
headed for the net.”When you feel good, sometimes you can make that kind of
save,” Raanta said. ”Need a little bit of luck also to get the puck straight to
your paw.”The Canadiens outshot the Coyotes 36-21 but couldn’t solve Raanta for
the first two periods. A slashing penalty gave Montreal a power play early in
the third
www.officialpredators.com , and Gallagher put in a rebound at 5:46, making the score 3-1.”Can’t dig
yourselves holes, especially on the road,” Gallagher said. ”That’s what cost
us.”NOTES: The Coyotes opened a seven-game homestand Thursday, which will be
their longest of the season. … F Richard Panik was a healthy scratch. He’d been
a top-line player, but has not scored a point in his last eight games. … Jacob
de la Rose and Carr were in the lineup for Montreal, replacing healthy scratches
Nicolas Deslauriers and Byron Froese. … A moment of silence for the victims of
the school shooting in Florida was observed.UP NEXTCanadiens: At Vegas on
Saturday night.Coyotes: Host Edmonton on Saturday. PITTSBURGH (AP) Evgeni Malkin
made the proclamation more than two months ago, minutes after the Pittsburgh
Penguins put together three borderline spectacular periods against San Jose on
Jan. 30 to pick up their ninth win in 12 games.”It’s like we’re back to playoffs
for sure,” Malkin said.It was vintage Malkin
Nashville Predators T-Shirts Authentic , who for over a decade has played the blunt dressing room yin to Sidney Crosby’s ever polite yang.While predicting a
playoff spot for the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions isn’t exactly
risky, Malkin’s promise came as the Penguins were coming out of a three-month
funk in which they flip-flopped between brilliant and blah.Reminded of his
guarantee on Tuesday – with a 12th straight postseason berth secured – Malkin
just smiled. Yeah, maybe he was sending a message to the rest of the guys in the
room that day that the malaise needed to go.”Like we talk a lot about this year,
like everyone’s `Wait, like what’s going on?”’ Malkin said. ”We lost couple good
players but we’re still great.”They just didn’t always play like it during the
first half of the season. While doing his best to avoid using the word
”hangover,” Crosby admitted the Penguins may have suffered from a bit of
selective amnesia last fall when they opened the season trying to become the
first franchise in 35 years to win three straight titles.”When you play a couple
seasons of important games like that, you come back and you might not have that
urgency or you only remember May and June when everything is great and your team
is firing on all cylinders but you don’t necessarily remember all the little
things that happen,” Crosby said.The two-time MVP has been around long enough to
understand that each year has its own set of unique challenges. The group that
basically ran in place from October through December sort of forgot how to deal
with it.”You have to go through that stuff over the course of the year and
sometimes it’s not as fresh in your mind as winning is,” he said. ”So I think it
took us awhile to go through that.”Things like trying to find a new identity
after the departures of Chris Kunitz
Nashville Predators Hoodies Authentic , Marc-Andre Fleury , Nick Bonino, Trevor Daley and Matt Cullen, all vital pieces of Pittsburgh’s 2016 and 2017
titles. Things like defenseman Justin Schultz and forwards Patric Hornqvist and
Bryan Rust all missing significant time with injuries, reminders that – as coach
Mike Sullivan likes to put it – the Penguins play a ”belligerent sport.”Sullivan
knew adversity was coming when the season started. And while he didn’t panic he
kept reminding his players that nothing is inevitable, not even a playoff berth
for a team with the longest active streak in the NHL. There was no fiery speech
telling them to get it together because none was required.”There weren’t really
any words said,” Rust said. ”Everybody knew. It’s one of those things. You take
a look at the standings. You take a look at how we lost a few of those games
early in the year and you just, everybody kind of looked in the mirror a little
bit and everybody picked up their own game.”Though the Penguins insist there was
no one moment in which they snapped to, Hornqvist pointed to a 4-0 road win
against the New York Islanders on Jan. 5 as game when the light started to come
on.The visit to Brooklyn came just 24 hours after a humbling 4-0 home loss to
Carolina. Weather issues forced the team to scramble just to get to the arena.
They left with two points and a little bit of swagger.”Since then I think we’ve
been playing good hockey and been improving every game and that’s the key to the
season
Nashville Predators Hats Authentic ,” Hornqvist said.Having Malkin and Crosby doing Malkin and Crosby things certainly helps.Malkin is in the running for his
second Hart Trophy as league MVP, his 95 points the most on the team, most of
them coming during Pittsburgh’s post-New Year’s Day surge, one in which the
Penguins became just the fourth defending champion since 1944 to reach the
postseason after being on the outside looking in at the season’s midway
point.When Malkin cooled, Crosby put together a five-game goal scoring streak,
including a remarkable double-tap score against Montreal’s Carey Price and an
overtime winner against New Jersey last Thursday in which he smacked his own
rebound out of midair and by Devils goaltender Keith Kinkaid in overtime.A win
over the Canadiens last Saturday night turned Malkin’s January guarantee into a
reality. Though a loss to Washington on Sunday allowed the Capitals to wrap up a
third consecutive Metropolitan Division title, the Penguins aren’t particularly
concerned. All three Cup parades during the Malkin-Crosby era have followed
regular seasons in which the Penguins finished second in their division.All that
matters to Malkin is that Pittsburgh is in the conversation. Just as the
Penguins have always been since he arrived in 2007.”I will always believe my
team,” Malkin said. ”I always believe this group. I see these guys every day and
we’re still hungry.”—
