MONTREAL (AP) — While all eyes were
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on former Montreal captain Max Pacioretty Custom Boston Bruins Jerseys , it was the player the Canadiens traded for who led his new team to a come-from-behind victory.Tomas Tatar scored the game-winner in the third period as the Canadiens defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 on Saturday night in Pacioretty’s return to Montreal.Pacioretty was dealt to the Golden Knights in the offseason in return for Tatar, prospect Nick Suzuki and a second-round draft pick.“It felt good, for sure,” said Tatar, who played 20 games with Vegas last season. “I was extremely motivated to beat my old teammates and it was a special game against them.”Tatar broke a 4-4 deadlock with 7:43 left in the game when his cross-crease pass to Phillip Danault deflected off Shea Theodore’s stick and in.“It was a lucky bounce,” said Tatar, who has 15 points in 17 games this year. “I wanted to give it to Phil. He supplies me and (Brendan Gallagher) a lot through the season and I saw him on the left side and I wanted to pass it to him. It was a good bounce.”The Canadiens (9-5-3) came from behind twice to snap a two-game losing skid.Tatar’s goal — his seventh of the season — came three minutes after Andrew Shaw scored his second of the game to tie the score at 4-4. Montreal was also down 2-0 after the first period.Pacioretty was held pointless despite taking a game-high nine shots on goal in his first match at the Bell Centre as a visiting player. The 29-year-old had a minus-2 rating in 20:46 of ice time.Pacioretty, who played 10 seasons with the Canadiens, was given a standing ovation following a video tribute before the start of the game.“I really wanted to win www.sabresshoponline.com ,” said Pacioretty, who has two goals in 13 games this season. “I always appreciate the support I get from the fans here. I’ll remember that for a while.“No matter what, I was going to be going tonight. Seemed like the story of our year so far, mine in particular. It just seemed to not go in and all the opportunities against are going in. If we keep going like that, it’s going to eventually break wide open for us.“I felt good out there. I just wanted to win bad.”The Golden Knights took a 2-0 lead after one period on goals by Brad Hunt and Jonathan Marchessault.Hunt scored on the power play at 17:40 for his second of the season.Marchessault scored 57 seconds later — his team-leading 15th point of the season — when Reilly Smith’s shot went off his skate and in.Vegas outshot Montreal 15-4 in the first period.The Canadiens were a different team after the intermission, scoring three unanswered goals in a 3:53 span to take a 3-2 lead.“The guys fought hard,” said Shaw, who notched his first multi-goal game in more than a year.“We didn’t have the start we wanted. … We got motivated in the intermission, came out flying and found a way to win.”Charles Hudon cut the deficit in half at 6:40 Buffalo Sabres T-Shirts Womens , on a pass by Jesperi Kotkaniemi, as he cut sharply across the crease and avoided Marc-Andre Fleury’s stick check for the easy tap-in.Taking advantage of a scramble in front of Fleury’s net, Shaw tied it at 7:09 with a backhand shot that just trickled past the goal line.Kotkaniemi gave Montreal its first lead of the game at 9:57, before Alex Tuch made it 3-3 at 14:34 of the second.William Karlsson scored a power-play goal at 3:27 of the third period.Antti Niemi improved to 4-1-0 with a 34-save effort. Starter Carey Price served as Niemi’s backup after allowing at least four goals in four straight games.NOTES: Carey Price served as Niemi’s backup after conceding at least four goals in four straight games. … Canadiens defenseman David Schlemko made his season debut.UP NEXTGolden Knight: At Boston on Sunday.Canadiens: At Edmonton on Tuesday night. CALGARY, Alberta (AP) With the playoffs approaching, John Gibson and the Anaheim Ducks are heating up.John Gibson stopped 29 shots to lead the Anaheim Ducks over the Calgary Flames 4-0 on Wednesday night.Gibson earned his fourth shutout of the season and 16th of his career. He is 12-3-1 in his last 16 starts.”He’s found another level right now in terms of his preparation, in terms of how he’s managing himself in the net,” said Anaheim’s Andrew Cogliano, whose short-handed goal 12:51 into the first period proved to be the winner. ”He looks pretty confident.”Francois Beauchemin had a goal and an assist for Anaheim Buffalo Sabres Hoodies Womens , and Ondrej Kase and Hamphus Lindholm also scored for the Ducks, who’ve won four straight and are tied with Colorado for sixth in the Western Conference, one point ahead of the Los Angeles Kings.Mike Smith started in goal for Calgary but was replaced after allowing three goals on 11 shots. Rookie David Rittich stopped four of the five shots he faced.The Flames have dropped four straight and are seven points out of the final wild card.Gibson made his best stops in the third period. A couple minutes apart, he stuck out a pad to deny Dougie Hamilton’s one-timer, then turned aside Johnny Gaudreau on a breakaway as the Flames fell to 15-18-4 at the Scotiabank Saddledome and were booed off the ice after.”It’s been a tough week,” said center Matt Stajan, who played in his 1,000th career game. ”We’ve come out strong in every game and we just can’t get that lead.”One of Calgary’s issues has been the power play, which went 0 for 2 to fall to 1 for 35 in the last 12 games. And it was while the Flames were on the man advantage that Anaheim took the lead.Less than a minute after Hamilton put a shot off the crossbar Buffalo Sabres Hats Womens , Hamilton and Mark Giordano got tangled up in their own corner, allowing the puck to squirt free. Cogliano corralled it and made a nice move on Smith for a short-handed goal.Anaheim made it 2-0 at 8:58 of the second when Kase broke in off the wing on a 1-on-1, spun around and put a backhand shot through Smith’s pads. The Ducks went ahead 3-0 with 1:05 left in the period on Lindholm’s slap shot from the blue line.Calgary trailed 3-0 despite holding a 23-11 edge in shots on goal. Smith has struggled since returning from a lower-body injury two weeks ago that sidelined him for a month.NOTES: Stajan has played 555 games with the Flames. … Anaheim’s Jason Chimera, who shook Stajan’s hand at center ice during warm-up, played in his 1,100th career game. … Flames scratches included TJ Brodie (upper body) and Matthew Tkachuk (upper body)… Josh Manson (upper body) missed his first game of the season for the Ducks.UP NEXTDucks: Play at Winnipeg on Friday night.Flames: Play at San Jose on Saturday.—
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