ANAHEIM
Los Angeles Kings T-Shirts Womens , Calif. (AP) — had all weekend to stew over their worst game of the season. They responded Monday night with a win
against the NHL’s top team.Rickard Rakell’s goal in the fourth round of the
shootout propelled the Ducks past Nashville 2-1 and handed the Predators their
first road loss this season.“We felt that we embarrassed ourselves with our
effort and competitiveness in the last game (a 5-1 loss Friday to Minnesota) and
we needed a response game to feel good about ourselves. We feel like we got that
tonight,” Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle said.Rakell got his first game-deciding
goal in a shootout when he beat Pekka Rinne. John Gibson then stopped Kevin
Fiala to snap the Predators’ five-game winning streak.Anaheim’s Pontus Aberg and
Nashville’s Kyle Turris scored in the first round.“I had a little plan before I
went out there,” said Rakell, who improved to 7 for 20 in shootouts. “Previous
times this year (it) hasn’t really worked for me, so I just tried to throw
everything out there. It was really nice to see it go in.”Nashville had won its
first eight road games, a franchise record and the third-longest streak to begin
a season in league history. The 2006-07 Buffalo Sabres won their first 10 away
from home, and the 2009-10 New Jersey Devils reeled off nine straight.Gibson,
who made 34 saves, and the Ducks’ penalty-killing unit were big keys in the win.
Anaheim was 7 for 7 killing off Nashville power plays and is 19 of 21 when down
a man over the last five games.Ryan Johansen thought he won it for the Predators
with a wide-open shot on the power play late in overtime
Sam Reinhart Jersey , but Gibson made a diving stop.“They have a good power play, so we knew they were going to get shots. That one just hit my glove
and I scrambled,” Gibson said. “I was fortunate enough to get a piece of my
glove on it. Whatever it hit, I kept it out.”Ryan Getzlaf scored in regulation
for Anaheim, which improved to 2-2 in shootouts.Fiala had Nashville’s lone goal
in regulation, and Rinne made 29 saves. It was the Predators’ first shootout of
the season.“We fought back again and got one point so we are happy about that,”
Fiala said. “We had a chance to bring two points back, but overall we have to
play better. We can’t just think we can do it in the third period all the
time.”Getzlaf gave the Ducks the lead with 30 seconds remaining in the second
when he took a backhand pass from Rakell and tipped it past Rinne for his ninth
of the season. The Ducks captain has points in six of his last eight games, with
four goals and five assists.Fiala tied it three minutes into the third when he
beat Gibson with a shot from the left circle. It was the left wing’s second
goal
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forward Viktor Arvidsson on injured reserve with an upper-body injury. He is
second on the team with eight goals. … Nashville did not have a shot on goal the
final 11:53 of the second period. … Ducks RW Ondrej Kase played his first game
of the season. He missed the first 18 games after suffering a concussion in the
final preseason game. … Rakell has an assist in five of the last seven games. …
Anaheim D Cam Fowler took a puck to the face on a shot by Nashville RW Craig
Smith with 3:06 remaining in regulation and did not return.UP NEXTPredators:
Continue their four-game road trip against San Jose on Tuesday.Ducks: Journey
outside of California for the first time in nearly three weeks when they face
Vegas on Wednesday. LOS ANGELES (AP) Kings coach John Stevens decided to put
”That 70’s Line” on hiatus for a night.Instead, having forwards Tyler Toffoli
and Tanner Pearson play with center Adrian Kempe gave Los Angeles‘ chances of
making the postseason a much-needed reboot.Toffoli and Pearson scored, Kempe had
two assists and the Kings moved back into playoff position with a 3-0 win over
the Vancouver Canucks on Monday.Stevens shuffled his lines coming off a 7-2 loss
to St. Louis on Saturday, getting the response he was looking for from Los
Angeles’ three emerging stars on offense.”I was really happy for the Kempe line
tonight,” Stevens said. ”We talked to that line just how much we needed them to
play like they did earlier in the year. It could really balance out our attack,
and I thought they did tonight.”Jonathan Quick made 35 saves for his fourth
shutout of the season and Anze Kopitar also scored for the Kings, who jumped
into third place in the Pacific Division with their fifth victory in seven
games. Los Angeles is one point ahead of Anaheim in the division
standings.Anders Nilsson made 30 saves for the Canucks, who were shut out for
the second consecutive game. Vancouver has scored three goals during a four-game
losing streak.Toffoli gave the Kings a 1-0 lead 1:57 into the second period with
his 22nd of the season. Jake Muzzin made a long pass from deep in the Kings own
zone to the red line that sprung Toffoli on a breakaway, which he finished with
a wrist shot over a kneeling Nilsson.”Ty on a breakaway there
Los Angeles Kings Hoodies Womens , he’s not going to miss those too often,” Pearson said.Muzzin had an assist for the second straight game, leaving him one short of
matching his career high of 31 in the 2015-16 season.Kempe had the secondary
assist, ending his six-game point drought.Kopitar made it 2-0 at 14:54. His
centering pass deflected off Troy Stecher’s stick and went fluttering in over
Nilsson. It was Kopitar’s first goal during his four-game point streak, to go
along with four assists.Derek Forbort and Drew Doughty had assists on Kopitar’s
28th goal.Pearson put the Kings ahead 3-0 with his 13th goal at 10:53 of the
third, waiting out Nilsson until the goalie was on his knees and had left an
open net. It was Pearson’s third goal in five games following a stretch of 15
without one.Pearson said he wanted to be patient and let Nilsson run himself out
of position to make a play. It was also a sequence that reflected the
back-to-basics approach the Kings employed after matching their season high in
goals allowed against the Blues.”Obviously, the last game wasn’t what we
wanted,” Pearson said. ”It’s good to get the win here and in a good way, too. We
had a good
http://www.flamesshoponline.com/authentic-jaromir-jagr-jersey , solid defensive game, and when we’re that way we create a lot of stuff going the
other way.”For the floundering Canucks, who are 4-12-3 in their last 19 games,
coach Travis Green hopes his team can try to focus on little victories instead
of its disappearing offense. Green pointed to the three power plays created
against the Kings after being limited to one opportunity with the man advantage
in each of the previous four games.”It’s going to weigh on them,” Green said
about the lack of goals. ”Wasn’t too long ago where we were scoring and
sprinkling them around a little bit. Again, you play a game, you reset and you
get back at it.”NOTES: The Kings are 7-4-1 in the first game of a back-to-back
set. … The Canucks are 3-6-0 in the second game of a back-to-back.UP
NEXTCanucks: Visit the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night.Kings: At the Arizona
Coyotes on Tuesday night.—
