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Youth Brandon Carlo Jersey , N.Y. (AP) Anze Kopitar and the Los Angeles Kings took advantage of the Buffalo Sabres‘ second-period meltdown to snap a three-game skid and keep pace in the tightly contested Western Conference playoff race.Kopitar and rookie Michael Amadio each had two goals in a 4-2 win, which the Kings broke open by scoring three times on consecutive shots over a span of 5:35 on Saturday afternoon.”I think our second period was huge, not just getting the three goals but just dictating the game,” said Kopitar, who upped his team-leading total to 25 goals. ”I thought (today) was a step in the right direction, but we’ve got to continue going.”Article continues below ...Los Angeles improved to 31-22-5 and vaulted into 10th place in the West, a point ahead of the idle Colorado Avalanche.The win was also the Kings’ first in Buffalo since a 4-1 victory on Feb. 21, 2003. Los Angeles had gone 0-6-2 in its previous eight trips to Buffalo
Womens Charlie McAvoy Jersey , and was 1-12-2 plus a tie in its previous 16 visits dating to the start of the 1993-94 season.”I don’t think we were worried about the 15-year drought in here, but we had a three-game slide that we certainly wanted to stop,” Kopitar said.Frustration boiled over for the Eastern Conference’s last-place Sabres.The press box shook with the loud sound of a door slamming, and Sabres general manager Jason Botterill was spotted leaving the team’s booth shortly after Kopitar scored his first goal to put the Kings up 2-0.Sabres forward Jason Pominville wasn’t surprised upon being informed of what happened.”I would’ve probably done the same thing,” Pominville said of Buffalo’s lackadaisical effort through 40 minutes.”The one thing we control is our effort and the energy we bring,” he said. ”Some nights, we’re just not bringing it. I really don’t get it.”The Sabres didn’t wake up until the third period, when Marco Scandella scored 30 seconds in with a blast from the blue line that sailed over goalie Jonathan Quick’s right shoulder. Then Rasmus Ristolainen scored during a scramble in front with 3:18 left.Quick stopped 33 shots
Danton Heinen Jersey Kids , while Dustin Brown had two assists.Buffalo’s Robin Lehner was yanked after allowing four goals on 30 shots. Chad Johnson finished with six saves in the final period.Kopitar’s first goal summed up Buffalo’s dreadful performance.Sabres forward Benoit Pouliot lost his balance while trying to play the puck just inside Buffalo’s blue line. The puck dribbled to Brown to set up a 2-on-1 break. Brown fed Kopitar, who wound his way across the front of the net and easily deposited a shot into the open right side with 7:58 left in the second period.The Kings scored twice more in a span of 1:29.Kopitar made it 3-0 with 3:54 left. He was set up for a one-timer in the left circle by Alex Iafallo, who beat the Sabres’ defenders to a loose puck behind the Buffalo net.Then, Amadio scored his second when Sabres defenseman Justin Falk got turned around. Amadio stepped around Falk, and snapped a shot inside the right post.The only knock Kings coach John Stevens had was how his team eased up in a third period during which Los Angeles was outshot 18-6.”I thought we kind of got off page a little bit, and they made a big push in the third period that we weren’t ready for,” Stevens said.NOTES: The Sabres are 2-6-1 in their past nine home games and 8-17-4 overall at home. Buffalo’s fewest home wins in an 82-game season is 13, set in 2013-14. … Iafallo was a fan of the Sabres growing up in Eden
http://www.officialbruinsproonline.com/authentic-adidas-david-krejci-jersey , New York, just outside Buffalo. Though Iafallo had a large contingent of friends present for his first game at Buffalo, the Kings rookie’s parents weren’t among them. They were instead in Columbus, Ohio, to be with Iafallo’s sister, Juliana, who was being honored as part of Ohio State women’s hockey team’s senior weekend. … Sabres C Ryan O’Reilly entered the day leading the league with 867 faceoff wins.UP NEXTKings: Continue their seven-game trip at the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday night.Sabres: Host the Washington Capitals on Monday afternoon.— NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Coyotes captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson made sure Adin Hill took home a souvenir from his first NHL shutout.Nick Schmaltz had a goal and an assist
Authentic David Pastrnak Jersey , Hill made 29 saves and Arizona beat the Nashville Predators 3-0 on Thursday night.Clayton Keller and Brad Richardson scored the other goals in Arizona’s second straight victory. Schmaltz’s two points were his first since being acquired Sunday in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks.As the final horn sounded to end the game, the puck was deep in the Nashville zone. Ekman-Larsson skated the length of the ice to retrieve it for his rookie goaltender.“You are putting a guy in that position and he wasn’t nervous at all,” Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said of Hill. “You’re playing in a tough building, one of the best teams in the league and he did a nice job.”Nashville has lost three of four.“They were faster than us,” coach Peter Laviolette said. “They wanted it more. We didn’t have enough guys with their hands on the rope pulling it our way. So that’s what we got.”Hill stopped nine shots in the first period, 14 in the second and six in the third.“I thought of it a bit towards the end of the third,” Hill said about the shutout. “But I was trying to focus on the whole game just getting the win.”Keller scored first at 1:40 of the second period.Schmaltz carried the puck into the Nashville zone and skated around the left faceoff circle. Near the boards, he found Keller in the slot
Jake DeBrusk Jersey , where he beat Predators goalie Pekka Rinne with a wrist shot low to the stick side.“We need to get skating again. We need to work hard for each other,” Nashville defenseman Mattias Ekholm said. “Right now it feels (so-so), but the sun will go up tomorrow.”Schmaltz made it 2-0 with 20.9 seconds remaining in the second.With the Coyotes on a power play, he beat Rinne with a wrist shot from just above the right faceoff dot off an assist from Ekman-Larsson.“I just took my ice and tried to pull it and get it through,” Schmaltz said. “It was fortunate to go in there. It slipped through the six-hole, I think.”Ekman-Larsson’s six power-play points lead the Coyotes.Richardson made it 3-0 at 11:23 of the third on a one-timer from the high slot.Rinne finished with 22 saves.NOTES: Ekman-Larsson played his 600th career game. … Arizona is 6-3-1 in its last 10 against Nashville. … The Predators are 11-4-1 when outshooting their opponent. … Nashville was shut out for the second time this season.UP NEXTCoyotes: Host the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.Predators: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday.
BUFFALO Youth Brandon Carlo Jersey , N.Y. (AP) Anze Kopitar and the Los Angeles Kings took advantage of the Buffalo Sabres‘ second-period meltdown to snap a three-game skid and keep pace in the tightly contested Western Conference playoff race.Kopitar and rookie Michael Amadio each had two goals in a 4-2 win, which the Kings broke open by scoring three times on consecutive shots over a span of 5:35 on Saturday afternoon.”I think our second period was huge, not just getting the three goals but just dictating the game,” said Kopitar, who upped his team-leading total to 25 goals. ”I thought (today) was a step in the right direction, but we’ve got to continue going.”Article continues below ...Los Angeles improved to 31-22-5 and vaulted into 10th place in the West, a point ahead of the idle Colorado Avalanche.The win was also the Kings’ first in Buffalo since a 4-1 victory on Feb. 21, 2003. Los Angeles had gone 0-6-2 in its previous eight trips to Buffalo Womens Charlie McAvoy Jersey , and was 1-12-2 plus a tie in its previous 16 visits dating to the start of the 1993-94 season.”I don’t think we were worried about the 15-year drought in here, but we had a three-game slide that we certainly wanted to stop,” Kopitar said.Frustration boiled over for the Eastern Conference’s last-place Sabres.The press box shook with the loud sound of a door slamming, and Sabres general manager Jason Botterill was spotted leaving the team’s booth shortly after Kopitar scored his first goal to put the Kings up 2-0.Sabres forward Jason Pominville wasn’t surprised upon being informed of what happened.”I would’ve probably done the same thing,” Pominville said of Buffalo’s lackadaisical effort through 40 minutes.”The one thing we control is our effort and the energy we bring,” he said. ”Some nights, we’re just not bringing it. I really don’t get it.”The Sabres didn’t wake up until the third period, when Marco Scandella scored 30 seconds in with a blast from the blue line that sailed over goalie Jonathan Quick’s right shoulder. Then Rasmus Ristolainen scored during a scramble in front with 3:18 left.Quick stopped 33 shots Danton Heinen Jersey Kids , while Dustin Brown had two assists.Buffalo’s Robin Lehner was yanked after allowing four goals on 30 shots. Chad Johnson finished with six saves in the final period.Kopitar’s first goal summed up Buffalo’s dreadful performance.Sabres forward Benoit Pouliot lost his balance while trying to play the puck just inside Buffalo’s blue line. The puck dribbled to Brown to set up a 2-on-1 break. Brown fed Kopitar, who wound his way across the front of the net and easily deposited a shot into the open right side with 7:58 left in the second period.The Kings scored twice more in a span of 1:29.Kopitar made it 3-0 with 3:54 left. He was set up for a one-timer in the left circle by Alex Iafallo, who beat the Sabres’ defenders to a loose puck behind the Buffalo net.Then, Amadio scored his second when Sabres defenseman Justin Falk got turned around. Amadio stepped around Falk, and snapped a shot inside the right post.The only knock Kings coach John Stevens had was how his team eased up in a third period during which Los Angeles was outshot 18-6.”I thought we kind of got off page a little bit, and they made a big push in the third period that we weren’t ready for,” Stevens said.NOTES: The Sabres are 2-6-1 in their past nine home games and 8-17-4 overall at home. Buffalo’s fewest home wins in an 82-game season is 13, set in 2013-14. … Iafallo was a fan of the Sabres growing up in Eden http://www.officialbruinsproonline.com/authentic-adidas-david-krejci-jersey , New York, just outside Buffalo. Though Iafallo had a large contingent of friends present for his first game at Buffalo, the Kings rookie’s parents weren’t among them. They were instead in Columbus, Ohio, to be with Iafallo’s sister, Juliana, who was being honored as part of Ohio State women’s hockey team’s senior weekend. … Sabres C Ryan O’Reilly entered the day leading the league with 867 faceoff wins.UP NEXTKings: Continue their seven-game trip at the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday night.Sabres: Host the Washington Capitals on Monday afternoon.— NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Coyotes captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson made sure Adin Hill took home a souvenir from his first NHL shutout.Nick Schmaltz had a goal and an assist Authentic David Pastrnak Jersey , Hill made 29 saves and Arizona beat the Nashville Predators 3-0 on Thursday night.Clayton Keller and Brad Richardson scored the other goals in Arizona’s second straight victory. Schmaltz’s two points were his first since being acquired Sunday in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks.As the final horn sounded to end the game, the puck was deep in the Nashville zone. Ekman-Larsson skated the length of the ice to retrieve it for his rookie goaltender.“You are putting a guy in that position and he wasn’t nervous at all,” Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said of Hill. “You’re playing in a tough building, one of the best teams in the league and he did a nice job.”Nashville has lost three of four.“They were faster than us,” coach Peter Laviolette said. “They wanted it more. We didn’t have enough guys with their hands on the rope pulling it our way. So that’s what we got.”Hill stopped nine shots in the first period, 14 in the second and six in the third.“I thought of it a bit towards the end of the third,” Hill said about the shutout. “But I was trying to focus on the whole game just getting the win.”Keller scored first at 1:40 of the second period.Schmaltz carried the puck into the Nashville zone and skated around the left faceoff circle. Near the boards, he found Keller in the slot Jake DeBrusk Jersey , where he beat Predators goalie Pekka Rinne with a wrist shot low to the stick side.“We need to get skating again. We need to work hard for each other,” Nashville defenseman Mattias Ekholm said. “Right now it feels (so-so), but the sun will go up tomorrow.”Schmaltz made it 2-0 with 20.9 seconds remaining in the second.With the Coyotes on a power play, he beat Rinne with a wrist shot from just above the right faceoff dot off an assist from Ekman-Larsson.“I just took my ice and tried to pull it and get it through,” Schmaltz said. “It was fortunate to go in there. It slipped through the six-hole, I think.”Ekman-Larsson’s six power-play points lead the Coyotes.Richardson made it 3-0 at 11:23 of the third on a one-timer from the high slot.Rinne finished with 22 saves.NOTES: Ekman-Larsson played his 600th career game. … Arizona is 6-3-1 in its last 10 against Nashville. … The Predators are 11-4-1 when outshooting their opponent. … Nashville was shut out for the second time this season.UP NEXTCoyotes: Host the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.Predators: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday.