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Alex Tuch Jersey Kids , Manitoba (AP) —Canadiens have a lot of fight left in them.They showed that Saturday night by beating the Winnipeg Jets 3-1 to remain relevant in the race for a playoff spot.“We’ve talked about this the whole time. We’re not giving up,” said Weber, Montreal’s captain. “We’re not out yet. Six more points available for us. We’ll take the next game here and try to win that one and see what happens.”Montreal is tied with Columbus for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference after the Blue Jackets beat Nashville on Saturday night. Columbus has four games left, while Montreal has just three. Montreal and Columbus are a point behind the Carolina Hurricanes for the first wild-card spot. Carolina has four games left.Joel Armia, Jeff Petry and Jordan Weal scored and Carey Price made 23 saves.“Right from the get-go, I thought that could have been one of our better games all season,” Price said.Mathieu Perreault scored for Winnipeg, and Connor Hellebuyck made 40 saves. The Jets have lost three in a row.“Ever since we’ve clinched (a playoff spot), it seems like we’re taking it a little bit more lightly, which we shouldn’t,” Perrault said. “I don’t really know how to explain that
http://www.officialknightsproshop.com/authentic-adidas-brad-hunt-jersey , it’s just maybe human nature, you know.“You feel maybe a bit more comfortable knowing you are going to make the playoffs, so you don’t have to try as hard. I’m sure when playoffs come around, we’ll get back to our game.”Montreal controlled play in the first period of Winnipeg’s final home game of the regular season, outshooting the Jets 16-5 and grabbing a 1-0 lead. Armia scored against his former team eight seconds after Jets forward Nikolaj Ehlers went to the penalty box for tripping.Petry made it 2-0 with 37 seconds left in the second with a shot from the point.Perreault scored his 15th goal of the season with 8:36 remaining. Weal scored into the empty net with 16 seconds left.NOTES: Montreal was coming off a 6-2 loss at Columbus on Thursday night. … Max Domi had an assist on Petry’s goal to reach 70 points.UP NEXTCanadiens: Host Tampa Bay on Tuesday night.Jets: At Chicago on Monday night. NEW YORK (AP) — Neal Pionk couldn’t ever remember scoring on an end-to-end rush before.The 23-year-old defenseman got the tiebreaking goal on a sensational individual effort late in the third period, and the New York Rangers rallied to beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 Tuesday night for their fourth straight victory.“That was a good one,” Pionk said.He brought the puck from behind the Rangers net, spun around one Montreal player, skated up the left side, cut in toward the front of the Canadiens net and put it past goalie Carey Price while falling to the ice with 2:44 left.“I couldn’t believe it,” teammate Mika Zibanejad said. “I told him he doesn’t need us out there. He’s such a good skater
Cody Eakin Jersey , it’s incredible to see.”Zibanejad and Chris Kreider each had a goal and an assist, Tony DeAngelo and Pavel Buchnevich also scored, and Kevin Hayes had three assists for the Rangers. Henrik Lundqvist made 31 saves.New York trailed 3-1 early in the second period before scoring the last four goals — three in the third.“Real gutsy win,” Zibanejad said. “We weren’t real happy going into the third but felt we had a little bit of momentum and we just wanted to keep that going. We did a lot of good things, and a good feeling to win.”Zibanejad capped the scoring after he brought the puck up the left side and tried to send a pass across in front. The puck defected back to him off Jeff Petry’s skate and Zibanejad put it past Price with 1:48 to go.Tomas Tatar had two goals and Max Domi also scored for Montreal, which was 7-3-1 in its last 11 games — including a shootout win across town against the Islanders the previous night. Brendan Gallagher and Petry each had two assists, and Price stopped 27 shots.“We made a lot of mistakes,” Canadiens coach Claude Julien said. “As a group, we weren’t very good. We couldn’t have been that tired. We had a 3-1 lead. This happens to every team.”The Rangers began their comeback late in the middle period. Just after New York’s power play expired, DeAngelo tipped a shot by Hayes for his second goal with 2:15 left to make it 3-2.“I thought that gave us a little bit of a lift,” Rangers coach David Quinn said. “To play the way we did in the third … it makes you feel pretty good.”New York tied the score near midway through the third. Hayes brought the puck down the right side and passed to his left to Marc Staal
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