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SAN JOSE Womens Josh Anderson Jersey , Calif. (AP) — Marcus Sorensen still has the stitches on his upper lip from taking a puck the face that sidelined him for two games. That injury didn’t slow him down a bit in his return to the lineup.Sorensen had his first career two-goal game and Joe Pavelski added his 36th goal of the season to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 4-3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night.“l played with good players. They do plays that make me better, so it’s easy for me to come out there,” Sorensen said. “It’s good to be back. It’s no fun to be watching.”Sorensen missed the final two games of San Jose’s road trip after taking a puck to the face last Saturday at Columbus, but thrived on a line with newly acquired Gustav Nyquist and Joe Thornton for his first multigoal game of his career. He opened the scoring early in the first and added another in the closing minute of the second period.Sorensen played just sparingly in the NHL his first two years since coming over in Sweden, but has earned a regular spot this year as a key contributor for the Sharks.“He’s just gotten better and better,” coach Peter DeBoer said. “I think his development obviously from coming over here and playing in the American League to getting on the fourth line a couple years ago in the playoffs and playing an energy role. This year, you can’t (overstate) how important Joe Thornton has been to his development offensively. He’s always talking to him about hanging on to pucks and making plays. When you get a guy like that, that wants to play with you, that’s the golden ticket.”Timo Meier also scored and Martin Jones made 24 saves for the Sharks, who began a stretch of 12 home games in the final 18 regular contests on a winning note.Nikita Zadorov, Mikko Rantanen and Samuel Girard scored for the Avalanche, who had their six-game point streak snapped. Gabriel Landeskog added three assists as Colorado lost for the 17th time in the past 18 regular-season games in San Jose.Colorado missed a chance to move into the wild-card lead in the Western Conference. The Avalanche are tied with Dallas and Minnesota for the final two playoff spots in the conference, but have played one more game than those teams.The Sharks took control with a dominant stretch late in the second period that led to Sorensen’s second goal. They pinned Colorado into the defensive zone, preventing defensive pair Erik Johnson and Girard from getting off the ice for 3:27. The duo was gassed when Sorensen got position in front of the net to tap in a loose puck past Semyon Varlamov that gave San Jose a 3-1 lead.“That’s not easy,” Girard said. “We have to find a way to make changes in those shifts, but shifts like that are part of the game now. It’s very tough to be on the ice for 3½ minutes.”Rantanen scored on the power play midway through the third to make it a one-goal game, but Pavelski answered on a power play for San Jose shortly after that to restore the two-goal margin.Girard then scored with 6:33 remaining, but Colorado couldn’t get the equalizer.“We needed to start the game with a chip on our shoulder. And we didn’t have it,” Rantanen said. “We found it in the third. In the third, we had urgency. If we had that in the first two, it might have been a different game.”The Sharks took the lead less than five minutes into the game when Thornton won an offensive zone draw and Burns fed Sorensen in front of the net for the goal.San Jose added to that lead early in the second when Meier beat Varlamov from the top of the circle on a rush.But Colorado answered quickly after that with Zadorov’s shot through a screen from the point.NOTES: Rantanen has points in six straight games. … The Sharks were without two key players with D Erik Karlsson again sidelined by a groin injury he re-injured Tuesday in Boston and F Evander Kane out with an undisclosed injury sustained in that game. … Colorado D Ian Cole returned to the lineup after missing 11 games with a broken orbital bone around his left eye.UP NEXT:Colorado: Visit Anaheim on Sunday.San Jose: Host Chicago on Sunday. DETROIT (AP) — Ted Lindsay lived to do what he thought was right.He pioneered the first NHL players’ union despite intense opposition from team management Adam Henrique Jersey , began the tradition of taking the Stanley Cup closer to fans by skating it around the ice and refused to attend his own Hall of Fame induction ceremony because only men were allowed.“I was led by a feeling of fairness,” Lindsay once said.Lindsay, the 5-foot-8, 160-pound tough guy who provided muscle and meanness on the Detroit Red Wings‘ famed “Production Line” of the 1950s, died Monday at the age of 93 in his home in Michigan, according to Lew LaPaugh, his son-in-law and president of the Ted Lindsay Foundation, which raises money for autism research.The player known as “Terrible Ted” was one of the game’s best left wings and an 11-time All-Star who played on four Stanley Cup winners in the early 1950s. Lindsay, Sid Abel and Gordie Howe formed an offensive juggernaut of a line that helped make Detroit one of the first of the NHL’s great postwar dynasties and they had a fitting nickname in the Motor City.He finished his NHL career with 379 goals and 472 assists in 1,068 games with 14 of his 17 seasons with Detroit. With Howe and Lindsay centered first by Abel and then by Al Delvecchio, the Red Wings won Stanley Cups in 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1955. The Red Wings retired his No. 7 in 1991.Lindsay is credited with beginning the ritual in which players skate around the rink holding the Stanley Cup they have just won.“I saw it sitting there, and I thought, ‘I’ll just pick it up and I’ll take it over,'” Lindsay recalled in an interview with The Associated Press in 2013.“I just moved along the boards. I didn’t have it over my head. I had it so they could read it. I wasn’t starting a tradition. I was just taking care of my fans that paid our salary.”Lindsay took his toughness off the ice to organize a players’ union despite opposition from team executives and without the support of Howe, perhaps the most famous hockey player of all. Lindsay pressed on anyway without the backing of “Mr. Hockey.”“All of us who were involved in trying to establish the players’ association weren’t the ones who needed it,” Lindsay explained. “It was for the fringe players that were the worst off. When I got caught up in this, I was so grateful to the game for all it had done for me. But it was a dictatorship on the part of the owners, who didn’t realize any of us had a brain.”At one point, Lindsay gathered secretly with a handful of players in New York in 1957. The next day Womens Andrew Cogliano Jersey , Red Wings general manager Jack Adams was very angry about it.“He was ranting and raving,” Lindsay recalled in an interview with the NHLPA . “But, I’d do the same thing.”Lindsay, who was named president of the short-lived union, was traded to Chicago the next summer.“It didn’t matter that they traded me,” he said in 1995. “I have a Red Wing on my forehead and on my behind and on my heart. That will never change.”The NHL Players’ Association was formed for good in 1967 — a decade after the Lindsay-led attempt to unionize — and the organization put Lindsay’s name on its version of the MVP award. The honor, which is chosen by an NHLPA vote, was previously called the Lester B. Pearson Award after the former Canadian prime minister.“On the ice, Ted Lindsay was one of the best players to ever to put on a pair of skates,” NHLPA executive director Don Fehr said. “But his greatest legacy was off the ice. A true trailblazer in seeking to improve conditions for all players, Ted was instrumental in organizing the original players’ association in 1957. All players, past, current and future, are in his debt. All those who have, and will follow him into the NHL, enjoy improved rights and benefits in large part due to the efforts he made.”The Hockey Hall of Fame waived its three-year waiting period when it inducted Lindsay in 1966, but he declined to attend the banquet because his wife and children were not welcome. The following year, the banquet was open to men and women.“That’s amazing,” Edmonton star Connor McDavid said as news of Lindsay’s death filtered out. “That just goes to show what he’s about and he was not afraid to stand up to anyone and stand up for what he believed in.”Born July 29, 1925, in Renfrew Brandon Montour Jersey Kids , Ontario, as the youngest of nine children, Lindsay joined the Red Wings in 1944. He led the NHL with 33 goals in 1947-48 and won the Art Ross Trophy for the most points in 1949-50 when he had 23 goals and a league-best 55 assists. In 1955, Lindsay scored four goals in a 7-1 victory over Montreal in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final.During his 14 seasons in Detroit, he led the team in goals only once. He led or tied for the team lead in penalty minutes 10 times, including his final season of 1964-65, when he was approaching 40 years old.Former Bruins player Milt Schmidt said Lindsay “probably was one of the most hated players in the National Hockey League” because of the way he came after other teams.“But every franchise would have given their right arm for Ted Lindsay,” he said.Lindsay retired following the 1959-60 season and focused on his automotive business. He came back for one more season with the Red Wings in 1964-65 and returned to Detroit as general manager in 1977 and remained in that role until 1980. During the 1980-81 season, he coached the team for 20 games.He was a familiar face around the Red Wings for decades after his retirement — and what a face. Pucks, fists and elbows took a toll on his face, leaving scratches and dents after uncountable numbers of stiches. He was booed on road trips, the player every opposing team loved to hate.“There’s only one reason I played. That was to win,” he told The Canadian Press in March 2015. “And also to play better the next day than I did the last game.”Lindsay, whose wife, Joanne, died two years ago, is survived by his children Blake, Lynn and Meredith, stepdaughter Leslie, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.