?The Vancouver Canucks could be closer to naming a general manager.
Ryne Sandberg
Jersey . The team met with Boston Bruins assistant general manager Jim
Benning on Wednesday about the vacant role. TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger
reports that Benning is considered the frontrunner for the job. Dreger also
reports that some believe that Canucks president Trevor Linden is waiting until
the end of the second round of the playoffs to make an appointment. Benning, a
former Canucks defenceman who spent nine seasons in the league with Vancouver
and the Toronto Maple Leafs, has been an assistant with the Bruins since 2006.
Following his playing career that ended in 1990, he worked as a scout for the
Anaheim Ducks and the Buffalo Sabres before a six-year run as the Sabres
Director of Amateur Scouting starting in 1998. Benning won the Stanley Cup with
the Bruins in 2011. The Canucks parted ways with former general manager Mike
Gillis last month.
Willson
Contreras Cubs Jersey . -- Josh MacDonalds second goal of the game kept
his team alive as the Peterborough Petes edged the host Kingston Frontencas 6-5
in overtime on Friday in Ontario Hockey League playoff action.
Kyle Hendricks
Jersey .Y. - Joe Johnson hit six 3-pointers in his 27 points,
Mason Plumlee added 18 points, and the Brooklyn Nets won their 11th straight at
home, beating the Boston Celtics 114-98 Friday night.
http://www.cubsauthorityshop.com/David-Ross-Jersey/ .Brazil midfielder Ricardo Goulart scored the winner in the 50th minute to give
the defending champion a four-point advantage in the standings over second-place
Sao Paulo, which beat rival Palmeiras 2-0. MONTREAL -- Rookie Matt Fraser got to
live a dream he had many times while growing up in Red Deer, Alta. Fraser,
called up Wednesday from AHL Providence and playing his first career NHL playoff
game, scored 1:19 into overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 1-0 victory over the
Montreal Canadiens to even their Eastern Conference semifinal series on Thursday
night. The 23-year-old jumped into a scramble in front of goalie Carey Prices
net and slid the puck under him into the net. "It was bouncing around and I was
just swatting at it as hard as I could and hoping it would hit something," said
Fraser. "Price is such a good goalie. He doesnt give out a lot of rebounds. I
might have got lucky there, but the puck wound up in the back of the net. "Its
something I dreamed about many times on the outdoor rinks growing up. Its every
kids dream to score in overtime." Johnny Boychuks point shot had taken a high
hop off the end boards and Price and defenceman Mike Weaver had trouble
controlling the bouncing puck. "It came around on the other side and it bounced
over my stick and I lost it," said Price. "Somebody yelled over, so I looked
over my left shoulder. Obviously it wasnt there. Then they poked it in on the
other side." The victory knotted the best-of-seven series at 2-2, and the Bruins
took back home ice advantage heading into Game 5 on Saturday night in Boston.
The Bruins outshot Montreal 34-33 in an intense, sometimes nervously played game
that was less a goaltending duel between Price and Tuukka Rask as a match of
determined, defensive teams. "We knew how tight this series would be," said
Boston coach Claude Julien. "It doesnt mean any more than that weve tied the
series. Its been tight every game. "It was important to get back in the series,
but I dont think weve played our best hockey. Weve played hard, but Ive seen us
play better. You hope the win here will help us get better and well go from
there." Asked about Rasks play, Julien said: "He was good. We didnt give up
three breakaways, that helped." They gave up a partial breakaway in the second
period, but Brian Gionta could only shovel the puck at the net and Rask made the
save. Canadiens coach Michel Therrien called it trench warfare. He found no
fault with his side, either, except that they didnt get a puck past RRask.
Addison Russell
Jersey. "This was a hard-nosed game between two well-prepared teams," he
said. "We lost a battle in front of the net on the winning goal, but Im pleased
with our teams effort. "All the games have been close and it wont be different
next game." There were 21 goals scored by both teams in the first three games,
there had not been a period without a goal, but there was little room to move in
this one. It marked the first time since 1935 that Boston won a playoff game 1-0
in OT and the first time Boston and Montreal went scoreless in regulation time
in the playoffs since 1953, when Elmer Lach got the OT game-winner for the
Canadiens. Bostons Carl Soderberg had the best chance in the final minute of the
first frame after P.K. Subbans blind back pass was intercepted, but Price looked
to get a piece of it as it went off the cross-bar. Another goal-less period
followed as shooters misfired, particularly Max Pacioretty on a setup from
Thomas Vanek, and both goalies held their ground. Each team went on the power
play once, but even that failed to break the deadlock. The Canadiens went on the
attack in the third, peppering the Boston net and outshooting the Bruins 14-7.
But the Bruins got a power play and Reilly Smith hit a goalpost, only to see
Brian Gionta stoned by Rask alone in front of the net at the other end a moment
later. Then Fraser ended it in OT. "Words cant even describe that feeling," said
Fraser. "I just watched the replay of it and I dont even want to begin to try to
explain that because its something I wish that every kid could feel." Fraser
skated on Bostons third line with Soderberg and Loui Eriksson and got 14:44 of
ice time and two shots on goal. Julien liked what he saw. "It was no doubt a
little nerve-wracking for him but to me it didnt show on the ice," said Julien.
"He was poised, made some good decisions, he was strong with the puck and in his
decision-making. "We were talking about him and I said hes been really good for
us tonight and there was no doubt he was going to play in overtime." Notes:
Fraser played in place of Jordan Caron. Matt Bartkowski stepped in on defence
for Andrej Meszaros. . . Montreal made no changes. . . Commissioner Gary Bettman
and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr attended the game.
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