Despite being eliminated from post-season
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#1: Despite being eliminated from post-season Autor: laiyongcai92,  PošaljiPoslato: Pon Apr 15, 2019 1:50 am
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NEWARK Vegas Golden Knights T-Shirts Authentic , N.J. (AP) — contention, the banged-up New Jersey Devils have hurt the playoff hopes of some wild-card contenders in recent weeks.Late last month they surprised the Montreal Canadiens and Saturday they put a crimp in the Coyotes’ chances with a 2-1 shootout win Saturday afternoon, sending Arizona to its fourth straight loss.“We got the point, but we have some guys playing tight,” said Arizona coach Rich Tocchet, whose team is on an 0-2-2 run. “It’s my job to get these guys to relax.”The Devils won because Blake Coleman and Pavel Zacha scored in the fifth and sixth rounds of the shootout and goaltender MacKenzie Blackwood made 23 saves in regulation and was beaten on one shootout attempt as New Jersey won for only the fourth time in 14 games (4-9-1).“He’s such a beast,” Coleman said of Blackwood. “He is intimidating. You come down on him and he takes up a ton of net and he can move as fast as anybody I have seen. I am surprised they got any on him.”Blackwood and Coyotes goaltender Darcy Kuemper, who had 31 saves, were outstanding in the game.Blackwood gave up an early goal to Arizona defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson Vegas Golden Knights Hoodies Authentic , while Kuemper gave up a soft one to Drew Stafford late in the first period.The goaltenders stopped the first four shootout attempts on each side before Coleman scored with a forehand. Conor Garland forced another round scoring on a backhander. Zacha beat Kuemper between the pads and Richard Panik failed to respond for the Coyotes.Zacha said he noticed Nico Hischier almost beat Kuemper between the pads.“It was a bit open and so was mine,” Zacha said. “My mind was made up when I was going and the guy was really far from the net.”Arizona had two great chances to win on a power play in overtime, with Derek Stepan and Clayton Keller both hitting a goalpost.“We battled hard and that’s all you could ask for a team,” Coyotes defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson said. “We’re playing in the NHL against good teams. They had a lot of guys back in their lineup and they have a good hockey team. There are no easy games.”Kuemper kept the Coyotes in the game in the last two periods of regulation, stopping 22 shots as the Devils had five power plays. He had two saves in close on Coleman and another on Hischier in the final seven minutes.Hjalmarsson also batted a floating puck away from goal in the waning minutes.Ekman-Larsson opened the scoring with a wrist shot from the point 2:31 after the opening faceoff.Stafford tied the game with under three minutes left in the period with his second goal in two games on a shot that went between Kuemper’s pads.Kuemper made up for the mistake in the second period, stopping 10 shots, including eight on the Devils’ four power plays in the period.Both teams had players returning from injury. The Coyotes’ Stepan missed 10 games with a lower-body injury. Back for New Jersey were Hischier, Kyle Palmieri, Miles Wood Vegas Golden Knights Hats Authentic , John Queeneville and defenseman Sami Vatanen and Mirco Mueller.NOTES: Devils D Will Butcher missed his second straight game with an illness. … Devils placed F Blake Pietila on waivers on Friday. He was not claimed. … The Devils recognized recently retired longtime off-ice official Vin Godleski. He stepped in and was a lineman in Game 4 of the 1988 Wales Conference Final between the Devils and Bruins after NHL officials refused to work the game because New Jersey had taken legal action to allow Jim Schoefeld to coach the game despite a league suspension.UP NEXTCoyotes: At the New York Islanders on Sunday.Devils: Host Buffalo on Monday night to finish a four-game homestand. ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) Gerard Gallant made Shea Theodore skip a shift. He’s not making him walk the plank for two rough games.Theodore’s struggles are a major reason the Golden Knights trail the Capitals 2-1 in the Stanley Cup Final going into Game 4 on Monday night in Washington. The talented, young defenseman has been on the ice for four of the Capitals’ past six goals in the series and was primarily responsible for two in Vegas’ Game 3 loss Saturday night.”Did Shea do something real bad? He plays the game like everybody else,” Gallant said Sunday in a passionate defense of Theodore. ”He made a couple mistakes, they ended up in the back of our net. A lot of guys make mistakes in hockey games and they don’t end up in the back of the net. Shea’s a 22-year-old kid who I love. He’s a great player. He’s going to be a star in this league.”Theodore doesn’t need to be a star, but he needs to be better for the Golden Knights to have a realistic chance of coming back in the Cup Final. In Game 3 alone, he made an ill-advised decision that sparked an odd-man rush on Evgeny Kuznetsov’s goal, and committed a brutal turnover that led to Devante Smith-Pelly’s goal that sealed it for Washington.Trailing by two in the third period, Gallant sat the offensively gifted Theodore for more than three minutes after that giveaway. Gallant expects his whole team to be better with the puck Custom Vegas Golden Knights Jerseys , and Theodore knows that certainly includes him.”Personally, not a good game,” Theodore said. ”I’ve got to be better all over the ice and definitely recharge tomorrow and get back at it. You have to have a short memory on these type of things, and it’s a seven-game series.”The series won’t get to seven games if Theodore’s mistakes continue to haunt the Golden Knights. In addition to the blunders that cost them two goals, arguably Theodore’s worst play Saturday night came when he lollygagged down the ice on the power play and got outraced by Capitals defenseman Matt Niskanen so badly goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury had to come out of his net and wound up taking a tripping penalty.That cost Vegas a big opportunity to score on the power play and cut the deficit in half.”We all make mistakes,” Fleury said in French. ”He must forget it.”That’s the message from veteran defense partner Deryk Engelland, who teammates notice has been a calming and positive influence on Theodore. Engelland talked to Theodore after the loss and again the morning after to reassure him and reinforce some positive thinking.”He’s young, you’re going to have mistakes,” Engelland said ”It’s a new day. We’ve got to get ready for Game 4 and you’ve just got to tell him to simplify John Moore Jersey Womens , make the simple, easy play that he’s done all year for us, and just get back to our games.”Teammates have been just as quick as Gallant to praise Theodore for his strong play this season, and there’s no doubt he’s a factor in the expansion team getting this far. But at the most critical stage of the Golden Knights’ journey, he has been close to his worst and knows it.”I just have to be much better than I was,” Theodore said.—More Stanley Cup coverage: apnews.com/tag/StanleyCupFinals—
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