BOSTON 鈥?How about we just stop right here Authentic Brandin Cooks Jersey , as even a freaking pinch hitter for the Boston Red Sox unleashed a screaming line drive that jackhammered its way through the cold, wet night air and over the Green Monster.If it wasn't before, it should be monster-ishly clear now in the aftermath of Eduardo Nunez's three-run blast in the seventh inning to crack wide-open Boston's 8-4 Game 1 World Series win over the Los Angeles Dodgers here Tuesday night that these Red Sox are setting up as a team for the ages.This lineup is relentless in all the right ways. It boasts power, contains contact hitters and it can, as they love to say in Beantown, #DoDamage throughout, from Nos. 1 through 9, from leadoff hitter Mookie Betts to the very end of manager Alex Cora's bench.This team, the one that started 17-2, won a franchise-record 108 games, blitzed the New York Yankees in an American League Division Series and crushed the Houston Astros in the AL Championship Series...how exactly are the Dodgers supposed to handle it?Other than not scoring four or five runs in a two-run first inning in which three of the first four Red Sox to face Kershaw cracked singles off him, "it was about as perfect as you can draw it up," Red Sox reliever Matt Barnes said. "[Nunez's] ability to come off the bench and hit a three-run homer is incredible. It was huge."David J. Phillip/Associated PressThe last two times out now, the Red Sox have pelted Astros ace Justin Verlander and bloodied Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw. This is what they do."We have a great group of guys, and we don't fear anybody," Betts said. "They put their pants on the same way we do."Welcome to Fenway Park, Mr. Kershaw. Check your pockets before they're picked.It was his first-ever appearance in this storied museum. His first-ever matchup with the Red Sox. And one he will not soon forget. The Sox pantsed him immediately, scoring those two runs in the first, another in the third, and then http://www.arizonacardinalsteamonline.com/pat-tillman-jersey , after manager Dave Roberts hooked Kershaw following a walk and a single to start the fifth, Ryan Madson allowed both of those inherited runners to score."I don't think he had the fastball command that he typically has," Roberts said. "He was missing up in the zone. I don't think his slider had the depth that we're used to seeing."And those guys, to their credit, they put some good at-bats on him. And we didn't play the defense we typically do."Absolutely true. And that made the Dodgers' climb in this World Series opener even steeper.What helped set up Boston's first inning was first baseman David Freese's failure to catch Betts' pop foul on the muddy warning track behind first base. Right fielder Yasiel Puig rifled a throw home instead of hitting the cutoff man, which allowed Andrew Benintendi to take second鈥攁nd score two batters later. On the mound, Kershaw looked perplexed. Then, in the fifth, Madson's wild pitch bounced past catcher Austin Barnes to help set up two more runs.David J. Phillip/Associated PressBy that fifth inning, seven of the nine Red Sox hitters had reached base. Even light-hitting catcher Sandy Leon finished with two knocks. No wonder there was a gorgeous rainbow over Fenway Park between late-afternoon rain showers.And when the merry-go-round is spinning like that, if you're playing defense, you simply cannot give up extra outs.Against this particular Boston club, it's a death sentence."It was huge," Betts said of scoring twice in the first inning. "From the beginning, we played aggressively and let them know that we're not going to ease into it."Right off the bat, go 100 miles an hour."Did they ever. When the season started, when the playoffs started and now in the World Series. Ace starter Chris Sale didn't last any longer than Kershaw鈥攈e, too, failed to get an out in the fifth inning. But the Boston lineup (mostly) and the Dodgers' sloppiness (minimally) gave Sale more slack than Kershaw.It's been this way all season. One enormous difference between these two clubs: The Red Sox can beat you in so many ways because they can hit for power and average. The Sox ranked 26th in the majors in strikeouts this season; only Pittsburgh, Seattle Authentic Josh Rosen Jersey , Houston and Cleveland fanned fewer times. The Dodgers, whose offense has been all or nothing much of the time, ranked eighth in the majors in whiffs.The Dodgers hit the second-most home runs in the majors鈥攁 franchise-record 235, which led the National League鈥攚hile Boston ranked ninth. But the Dodgers also ranked 29th in batting average with runners in scoring position and two outs鈥攖heir .199 tied the lowly Baltimore Orioles.Part of that relates to the inordinately high number of strikeouts contained in the Los Angeles lineup鈥攁nd the Dodgers whiffed 12 times in Game 1 (the Red Sox checked in with 12, too). But while the Dodgers have scored 24 runs this postseason via the homer and 23 runs when they don't put the ball out of the park, Boston keeps coming at you in various ways: The Red Sox this postseason have scored 21 runs via the homer and 43 without the benefit of a homer. The difference is striking."Overall, we're pretty relentless," president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said during a conversation before Game 5 of the ALCS in Houston the other day. "We battle. And we can win in different ways."It's nice we hit more home runs this year than we did in the past. But we're athletic, we use the whole field, we score from first on a double鈥攖he majority of guys, not all of them鈥攚e score from second, we take extra bases. There's a lot of different stuff that we do."We're also a good defensive club. First base, second base, catching鈥攚e're really good. So, we win games in different ways."Dodger president Stan Kasten joked about payrolls after his team eliminated Milwaukee."I'm a little concerned about having to play these high payroll teams," Kasten quipped, referring to Boston ranking second in the majors this year with a $206 million payroll while the Dodgers were 11th at $157 million. "It seems unfair to make us do that. But we're going to give it our best anyway."What was unfair in Game 1 was the stacked Boston lineup that destroyed the Dodgers from various angles. Nunez's homer came against lefty Alex Wood, once a starter but now a reliever in the playoffs. Pedro Baez was doing just fine in relief, and Roberts left himself open to questioning with that move. It was the third homer Wood has allowed this postseason.By the end of the mauling, the Fenway Park crowd was roaring that age-old favorite chant in Boston. As "Beat L.A.! Beat L.A.!" carried deep into the night http://www.arizonacardinalsteamonline.com/josh-rosen-jersey , the notion of beating these Red Sox seemed as difficult as stopping those echoes. Scott Miller covers Major League Baseball as a national columnist for Bleacher Report. Follow Scott on Twitter and talk baseball. SEATTLE (AP) Jerry Dipoto thought he was done making deals a day before the non-waiver trade deadline after remodeling the Seattle Mariners bullpen.The Mariners’ ever-active baseball boss just couldn’t help himself when an outfield upgrade became available.Seattle acquired outfielder Cameron Maybin from the Miami Marlins on Tuesday, giving the Mariners a boost going into the final two months of the regular season. Seattle landed Maybin in exchange for minor league infielder Bryson Brigman and international bonus pool allotment.Dipoto said he first had discussions with the Marlins about Maybin about two weeks ago, but it took the non-waiver trade deadline to get a deal finalized.”He fits into the theme of what we’re doing and adds better balance to our club. And the experience of a guy who has been through it as long as Cam has doesn’t hurt,” Dipoto said.Center field was the one obvious position where Seattle could use an upgrade. Since moving Dee Gordon to second base, Guillermo Heredia has seen the majority of the time in center. And while Heredia is outstanding defensively, his bat hasn’t provided much to Seattle’s lineup. Heredia is hitting .229 with a .314 on-base percentage and 22 runs scored. Heredia was batting .302 on May 29, but his average has taken a nosedive. In the past 51 games played, Heredia is hitting just .184.Maybin has been the opposite offensively. Maybin is batting .251 with three homers and 20 RBIs in 99 games this season, but he’s batting .329 with a .912 OPS since June 29. The Mariners are the seventh team for the 12-year veteran, who has a $3.25 million, one-year contract. Maybin also has postseason experience, playing in the World Series last year with Houston. Seattle entered the day two games ahead of Oakland for the second wild-card in the American League and three games behind the Astros in the AL West.Seattle is hopeful Maybin will be able to join the club Wednesday, and he was the last of Seattle’s four trades in the days leading up to the deadline. Seattle also acquired relief pitchers Sam Tuivailala, Adam Warren and Zach Duke in a trio of deals.”I think we’ve helped the team a lot,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. ”Every manager out there wants more pieces in the bullpen, certainly. As you get going into games in August and September and workloads start to mount up on pitchers you tend to go to the bullpen a little earlier and you want guys who have experience or have stuff or a combination. I think we’ve done some nice things.”The acquisition of Maybin will likely put to rest any thought of moving Gordon back to center late in the season following the return of Robinson Cano from his 80-game suspension for violating baseball’s joint drug agreement. Dipoto said the intent was to leave Gordon at second base, but that he may see occasional time in the outfield. Getting Maybin means Cano will be moving around to positions other than second base once he returns.Brigman is batting .304 this year for Class A Modesto. He was a third-round pick in 2016 but hasn’t played above Class A.—

COLUMBUS http://www.officialknightsproshop.com/authentic-adidas-james-neal-jersey , Ohio (AP) The Columbus Blue Jackets re-signed forward Boone Jenner to a four-year, $15 million contract, locking up a player who has been a stalwart presence in the team’s emergence as a playoff contender.The Blue Jackets announced the deal on Thursday. The contract pays the 25-year-old Jenner $3.75 million annually through the 2021-22 season, according to a person with direct knowledge of the contract who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Blue Jackets didn’t reveal the value of the deal.Jenner was a restricted free agent who made $2.9 million in 2017-18, a season in which he missed all of training camp and the first seven games of the season with a back injury.Although his numbers have fallen off since he scored 30 goals in 2015-16, Jenner was an alternate captain and key contributor down the stretch last season, which ended in a first-round playoff loss to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals.The native of Dorchester, Ontario, said he was happy to get the four-year deal after starting his NHL career with the Blue Jackets. He’ll likely be the left wing on the second or third line.”Being there for five years, I knew that’s where I wanted to be, especially with the team we’ve got and the way things are going and what we’re building,” he said. ”It’s something I’ve been a part of and want to continue to be a part of.”He ended last season with 13 goals and tied his career high with 19 assists. He piled up 12 points in March and logged a goal and two assists in six playoff games.”I think once things kind of settled down later toward the end of the year, I think I found my stride, and I was obviously happy with my play down the stretch,” he said.Jenner, a second-round draft pick by Columbus in 2011, has 86 goals and 75 assists in 342 NHL games. His best season was 2015-16, when he scored 30 goals and had 19 assists.”Boone Jenner has been an important player for the Columbus Blue Jackets with his work ethic Jonathan Marchessault Jersey , character and leadership on and off the ice,” general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said. ”He is still a young player that is improving in all facets of the game, and we couldn’t be happier that he will continue to be a key contributor to our team in the years to come.”—AP Hockey Writer John Wawrow contributed to this report.— The National Hockey League announced a tentative $18.9 million settlement Monday with more than 300 retired players who sued the league and accused it of failing to protect them from head injuries or warning them of the risks involved with playing.The lawsuit, consolidated in federal court in Minnesota, was by far the largest facing the league. The NHL, as it has for years, did not acknowledge any liability for the players’ claims in the proposed settlement and can terminate the deal if all 318 players or their estates don’t elect to participate.The settlement is significantly less than the billion-dollar agreement reached between the NFL and its former players on the same issue of head injuries. Each player who opts in would receive $22,000 and could be eligible for up to $75,000 in medical treatment.“The cash amount of $22,000, that’s small, but we were always looking for (medical) coverage to begin with,” said former player Reed Larson, who was among the first to sue the league over head injuries that could lead to the brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. “The bottom line is this is monitoring, testing and hopefully help for players that will either have (CTE) now or could get it in the future.”Players’ attorney Stuart Davidson said he knows there will be comparisons between the NHL and NFL settlements, even though they differ drastically.“When you have a defendant who has spent millions of dollars litigating a case for four years to prove that nothing is wrong with getting your brain bashed in, you can only get so far,” Davidson told The Associated Press. “I think it’s important for players who have an opportunity to settle their case with the NHL now to understand that before they get anything through a trial against the NHL it’s going to cost millions of dollars in experts to get there Womens Bobby Orr Jersey , and that’s going to have to be paid for before they see a penny from any recovery, assuming they win.”An NHL spokesman said the league would not make any comment until after the opt-in period of 75 days for players. There were 146 players who added their names to the lawsuit as plaintiffs between November 2013 and this August and 172 more who joined as claimants.In addition to the cash payment, the settlement includes neurological testing and assessment for players paid for by the league; up to $75,000 in medical treatment for players who test positive on two or more tests; and a “Common Good Fund” for retired players in need, including those who did not participate in the litigation, worth $2.5 million.Pittsburgh star Sidney Crosby, who has dealt with concussion problems throughout his career but is not involved in the lawsuit that includes only retired players, told reporters after practice the league, Players’ Association and others must all have a role in the issue.“It’s something as players that we know that risk,” Crosby said. “Obviously we know a lot more now than we did before, even a lot more than we did when I had my first one. It’s something you hope they can mutually agree on. It’s something that I think is important from both sides.”Retired player Daniel Carcillo, one of the plaintiffs, urged players not to accept the settlement. In a series of tweets , he said players would be forced to see the same NHL and NHLPA doctors to determine if they’d be eligible for treatment.Carcillo also asked for Wayne Gretzky’s thoughts: “I want him to use his platform to help the men who protected him throughout his career. Lack of pressure from former players is a direct result of this insulting attempt at a settlement.”Charles Zimmerman, who was a lead attorney for players, said he was most disappointed the lawsuit couldn’t assure future benefits for all retired players like in the NFL.“I think it’s a very appropriate result and a good outcome in a very contested, hotly litigated matter,” Zimmerman said. “The main goal in the case was to get medical testing and treatment for the players Marc-Andre Fleury Jersey , something that the NHL wouldn’t agree to for the four years that we’d been litigating and that’s what we achieved.”The settlement comes four months after a federal judge denied class-action status for the retired players, a significant victory for the league in the lawsuit filed in November 2013. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson in July denied class-action status, citing “widespread differences” in state laws about medical monitoring that would “present significant case management difficulties.”The bid for class-action status would have created one group of all living former NHL players and one group of all retired players diagnosed with a neurological disease, disorder or condition. Had Nelson certified the class action, more than 5,000 former players would have been able to join the case.“It’s not surprising after the NHL prevailed on the class-action motion that there would have been movements in this direction,” NHLPA executive director Don Fehr told reporters in Toronto. “I’m glad for the parties that it’s all over. Hopefully people can go on with their lives and now we can perhaps deal with these issues with the NHL without having to worry about the effect on the litigation.”Davidson called Nelson’s decision a “watershed moment” for the case and that players lost leverage as a result.“It severely limited the damages to the NHL owners and benefits to the NHL players,” Vanderbilt University sports economic professor John Vrooman wrote in an email to the AP. “This decision essentially forced the 140 (plus) players involved in the suit to settle and prevented the participation of all other potential litigants. So it will seem that both sides ‘won’ in what was really a lopsided victory for the owners. It’s just that all of the owners won by gaining current and future protection from damages and a minor fraction of the players won something that they would have zero chance in obtaining in isolation versus the league.”Settlement talks ramped back up in July with an agreement reached Nov. 7.Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly have, on multiple occasions, said the lawsuit had no merit.“When it comes to focusing on concussions and trying to understand them and how to treat them, we’ve been leaders in the field,” Bettman told the AP in May. “And that gets completely lost in the rhetoric of the litigation, and I don’t like discussing the litigation. There is a sense because it gets sensationalized that the reality of our position with player safety is somehow at odds with the reality of the science and the medicine and it’s not true. We study it very closely.”The NFL settlement covers more than 20,000 retired players, and lawyers expect payouts to top $1.5 billion over 65 years. As of last month , the NFL concussion lawsuit claims panel has approved more than $500 million in awards and paid out $330 million.

DETROIT (AP) — The Buffalo Sabres continue to find ways to win.Sam Reinhart and Tage Thompson scored in a seven-round shootout to give the Sabres their ninth consecutive victory http://www.officialflames.com/authentic-adidas-jaromir-jagr-jersey , 3-2 over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night.Buffalo (16-6-2) is one win away from its franchise record of 10.“I think during this streak you can look at it and see how many different heroes we’ve had,” said Sabres star Jack Eichel, who had an assist. “There are guys stepping up in key situations. You’ve got Tommer (Thompson) going out for the shootout and putting on an incredible move. Linus (goalie Linus Ullmark, who made 35 saves) stepping in and playing out of his mind, making huge saves.Jeff Skinner and Thompson scored for Buffalo in regulation.“I think first of all, I have to give credit to our guys, and that’s everybody that’s played through these six games in nine nights,” Sabres coach Phil Housley said. “It has been a grind and the guys continue to find energy and ways to win hockey games. It wasn’t pretty, it was sometimes sloppy, but we found a way to win.”Dylan Larkin Johnny Gaudreau Jersey Kids , Anthony Mantha scored for Detroit, and Jimmy Howard stopped 33 shots. Andreas Athanasiou scored in the shootout for the Red Wings.“We had enough chances to win the hockey game for sure,” Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. “We got to score on our chances. When you get that many breakaways you got to find ways to score.”Ullmark denied Mantha, about eight minutes into the second period, and Larkin, a little over six-and-a-half minutes into the third, on breakaways.“I give a lot of credit to Linus. For him to make those huge breakaway saves was great,” Housley said.Mantha tied it at 2, with 6:28 left in the third. He poked in the rebound off the goal post. It was Mantha’s seventh goal and came four seconds after a Detroit power play ended.Thompson gave the Sabres a 2-1 lead 7:40 into the third period with a power-play goal on a one-time slap shot from the left circle. It was Thompson’s third goal.Larkin tied it at 1, 53 seconds into the second period when his harmless-looking wrist shot from the outside of the left circle along the boards from a bad angle went in off Ullmark. It was Larkin’s ninth goal.Skinner’s power-play goal 3:37 into the game gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead. He put in the rebound Mark Giordano Jersey , of a shot by Eichel, from the slot. It was Skinner’s league-leading 18th goal and his fourth in three games.Ullmark was forced to make an unexpected spectacular reverse pad save when a dump in from the neutral zone took a weird bounce in the left circle and was headed for the empty net as Ullmark came out to play the puck.NOTE: Buffalo was without C Patrik Berglund because of an upper-body injury. … Detroit was without D Jonathan Ericsson (undisclosed) and Darren Helm (upper body).UP NEXT:Sabres: Host San Jose on Tuesday night.Red Wings: Host Columbus on Monday night. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A day after the Sabres clarified several comments made off the ice, coach Phil Housley was impressed watching his team clean up its various mistakes and deficiencies on it.The power-play got goals from Casey Mittelstadt and Kyle Okposo, goalie Linus Ullmark didn’t have to resort to acrobatics in stopping 28 shots behind a tighter-checking defense, and Buffalo beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 on Saturday.“I think they refocused, but that’s the thing for me is that’s a tight group in there,” Housley said. “I think it just brought us tighter together, the things that went on.”Housley was referring to himself and forward Sam Reinhart spending Friday clarifying eye-opening comments each made following a 6-5 overtime loss to Carolina.Reinhart personally and publicly apologized to Ullmark and fellow goalie Carter Hutton, after saying he misspoke in saying “we need more from our goalies.” What Reinhart said he meant to say is the team needs to do more for its goalies.Housley clarified what some interpreted as him questioning general manager Jason Botterill Youth Matthew Tkachuk Jersey , when asked to evaluate this group of defensemen.There was little to complain about against Detroit.The Sabres won for just the fourth time in 11 games (4-6-1) and improved to 10-14-5 since a 10-game winning streak in November briefly vaulted them into first place in the Eastern Conference standings.Buffalo began the day four points behind Pittsburgh, which holds the East’s second and final wild-card berth.After being outshot 12-4 in the opening period, the Sabres broke through with three goals in the second.Ullmark bounced back after allowing 10 goals on 75 shots in his previous two outings — and after Buffalo had allowed four or more goals in eight of its previous 10.“We mostly talked about how we’ve got to clean up our end, and I thought we did a terrific job back there,” Ullmark said.The only costly miscue was on Ullmark, who was out of position in allowing Dylan Larkin to cut Buffalo’s lead to 2-1 on a wrap-around goal with 2:46 remaining in the second period.“It’s definitely a bad goal on my part,” Ullmark said. “Sometimes you screw up.”Okposo bailed him out 2:15 later by beating Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard high on short side with a shot from the left circle.Howard finished with 18 saves, allowing three goals on 12 shots in the second period. Detroit has lost two straight since winning five of seven.“Absolutely, it’s a tough one to give up with, whatever Michael Frolik Jersey , 50 seconds left or so,” Red Wings forward Frans Nielsen said of Okposo’s goal.“But at the end of the day we’ve got to put more pucks in the net,” he added. “It’s not just bad luck right now. I think it’s on us. We’ve got to find a way.”Ullmark made a difference, too.His best save came with 8:03 remaining, and immediately after Buffalo’s Tage Thompson squandered a 2-on-1 break at the other end. Ullmark held his ground to prevent Andreas Athanasiou’s attempt to beat him through the legs on a wide-open breakaway.Conor Sheary opened the scoring 75 seconds into the second period when he intercepted Justin Abdelkader’s soft pass at Detroit’s blue line.Mittelstadt scored nine minutes later by one-timing in Jack Eichel’s pass into the right circle for Buffalo’s first power-play goal.Buffalo’s power-play went two for three, and has converted five of 10 opportunities in its last four games after going two of 30 in its previous 12.NOTES: Red Wings D Trevor Daley is nearing his return after missing his 24th game with foot injury. Coach Jeff Blashill ruled out Daley from playing at Chicago on Sunday while saying he’ll have an update on the player’s status before the game at Nashville on Tuesday. … Red Wings LW Tyler Bertuzzi (upper body) missed his sixth straight and Blashill expects him to miss at least the next two. … Sabres Ds Marco Scandella played his 500th career game and Rasmus Ristolainen played his 400th. … With an assist on Mittelstadt’s goal, rookie Rasmus Dahlin became the NHL’s fifth defenseman to reach 30 points before turning 19.UP NEXTRed Wings: At Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday.Sabres: Host Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.

ANAHEIM http://www.islandersfanproshop.com/authentic-nick-leddy-jersey , Calif. (AP) — The Rangers are getting into a bad habit of allowing goals in the final minute of regulation. Fortunately for them, it hasn’t cost them the last two times.New York gave up a late goal for the third straight game — this time to Rickard Rakell with 25.3 seconds remaining — but was able to beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 in a shootout Thursday night.It was the second shootout victory in three days for the Rangers.Their struggles in the last minute began Sunday at Los Angeles when they were unable to clear the puck and Alec Martinez scored with 55 seconds left to hand New York a 4-3 loss. Two nights later in San Jose, the Sharks’ Tomas Hertl tied the game at 3 with less than two seconds remaining, but the Rangers were able to win in a shootout.“It’s a little demoralizing to be giving up goals in the final minute of games, but we keep making progress,” rookie coach David Quinn said. “Over a season you have to find ways to manage to get points when you are not playing great or feeling great. We did that tonight.”Mats Zuccarello and Mika Zibanejad scored in the shootout for the Rangers Womens Wayne Simmonds Jersey , who went 2-2 on a four-game road swing. Alexandar Georgiev made 22 saves and turned away both Ducks attempts in the tiebreaker.Brett Howden and Kevin Hayes scored in regulation for the Rangers, who improved to 3-0 in shootouts.“Those are huge points. You look at the end of the year and if you have 13 or 14 losses in an overtime shootout, those are points you are giving up,” said Marc Staal, who had an assist.Jakob Silfverberg also scored for Anaheim, which is 0-5-2 in its last seven games. John Gibson made 28 saves. The Ducks are 1-2 in shootouts.“That was the best game we’ve played defensively in a long time. Now it’s a matter of getting the offense clicking and spending more time in the offensive zone http://www.senatorsshoponline.com/authentic-bobby-ryan-jersey ,” Silfverberg said. “We didn’t get the result we wanted tonight, but we got a point.”The Rangers led most of the way but Rakell tied it with 25.3 seconds remaining in the third period after the Ducks pulled Gibson for an extra skater.It marked the 13th time in franchise history that Anaheim has tied a game in the final 30 seconds.Rakell, who has three goals this season, also had an assist. He has seven points in his last eight games (two goals, five assists).New York got on the board first when Hayes scored a power-play goal less than two minutes into the second. Ryan Kesler blocked Howden’s shot but Hayes was able to corral the deflection and fire it past Gibson for his third of the season.Anaheim tied it with its second power-play goal in its last six chances when Silfverberg scored on the rebound of a shot by Rakell that went off Georgiev’s blocker. It was Silfverberg’s fourth of the season, which tied him with Pontus Aberg for the team lead.Less than two minutes later Chris Wideman Jersey , Howden was wide open in front and scored his third goal off a pass from Jimmy Vesey. The goal was set up when Staal had the puck near the blue line and found Vesey near the left faceoff circle in the Ducks zone.Ryan Getzlaf had two assists for Anaheim to extend his point streak to four games. He has two goals and five assists during that span.NOTES: Anaheim right wing Patrick Eaves played for the first time this year following a health scare that cost him much of last season, when he played in only two games. He missed the first three games because of a lower-body injury and then the final 77 due to post-viral syndrome and a shoulder injury. He sat out the first 13 games this season as he was working his way back from shoulder surgery in early March. Eaves skated on the third line. … The Rangers have a power-play goal in five of their last eight games.UP NEXTRangers: Return home to face Buffalo on Sunday.Ducks: Host Columbus on Sunday. LAS VEGAS (AP) — This goal-mouth scramble might have had some real bite to it.Nashville defenseman P.K. Subban accused Vegas forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare of chomping on one of his fingers during a scuffle late in the second period of the Predators‘ 2-1 victory Wednesday night.Subban said he reached around Bellemare’s head to try to pull him away from Juuse Saros after the Nashville goalie covered the puck, but did not put his finger anywhere near Bellemare’s mouth.“All I tried to do was grab him,” Subban said. “I grabbed him by the head to pull him up and he bit me, so that’s it. I don’t know what to say.”Bellemare insisted Subban put his hand near his mouth and removed his mouth guard.“He tried to pull me up, so obviously he’s feeling teeth and he’s acting on it Womens Craig Anderson Jersey ,” Bellemare said. “I don’t know what to tell you, really.”When asked about Subban’s claims that he bit a finger, Bellemare said: “I mean, if you put your hand all the way in the mouth … and you pull up, you’re going to feel the teeth.”Subban immediately grabbed his right hand, shook it and then showed it to referee Jake Brenk. Subban appeared to have droplets of blood on his jersey.Bellemare also appeared to have cuts on his lip.“What do you want me to say?” Bellemare asked. “Like Authentic Erik Karlsson Jersey Kids , I have a half glove in my throat and playing with the back of it and pulling me up. There was no mouth guard when he pulls up. Those are my teeth.”Bellemare wasn’t penalized — but Subban was after the defenseman got into it with Vegas forward Ryan Reaves a few moments after the initial skirmish. Subban was called for roughing and unsportsmanlike conduct, while Reaves was also penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct.“I don’t know how I walk out of there with four minutes in penalties,” Subban said. “They tried to apologize after the fact, but they already gave me four minutes in penalties. My finger is bleeding.“It just is what it is. It’s the last game before the break for us and I’m just focused on playing the game. The last thing you want to do is change the focus of our team there. We won the game, so I forgot about it after that.”

The Buffalo Sabres have one more home game before they hit the road for the first time this season.They would like nothing better than to make it three wins in a row Thursday night when they host the Colorado Avalanche at KeyBank Center.It will conclude a four-game homestand that opened the Sabres’ season. They will play their next five games on the road.Article continues below ...After hearing boos when they dropped their season opener 4-0 to the Boston Bruins on Oct. 4 http://www.officialducks.com/authentic-adidas-john-gibson-jersey , they have defeated the New York Rangers 3-1 on Saturday and the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Monday.Jack Eichel, 21, the Sabres’ newly appointed captain, scored twice Monday to give Buffalo (2-1-0) more wins than losses for the first time since the third game of the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season. It had been 457 games, dating to Jan. 24, 2013, since Buffalo had more wins than losses.“The things you can control are your compete, your attitude and your work,” Eichel said. “If we do that and stick together and compete for each other, I think there’s a lot of good things that can happen. … I like the direction in which our group is going right now.”The Avalanche (2-1-0) lost 5-2 to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday in their first road game of the season. Colorado will try to come out with more jump from the start at Buffalo.“I don’t want to take anything away from Columbus Authentic Josh Manson Jersey , because they had a good first period,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “But we stood around. We weren’t ready to start. So, when you stand around, it’s pretty easy to move the puck around you. It’s also the reason why we had three penalties in five, six minutes of the first period. When you’re not moving your legs, and not skating, teams are going to move it around and you’re going to take penalties. That’s what happened.”Philipp Grubauer made his first start in goal for Colorado, with Semyon Varlamov, who had started the two wins, backing up. Varlamov is likely to start Thursday.After falling behind 2-0 in the first period Tuesday Ondrej Kase Jersey , the Avalanche tied the game before the Blue Jackets regained control with three third-period goals, including one into an empty net.“Second period was great,” said Grubauer, who allowed four goals on 34 shots. “First one and third one, that’s where we ran into some trouble. You play the right way in the second (but) you have to play the right way for 60 minutes, not one period.”The Avalanche must be prepared to play a Sabres team that is willing to work with Eichel leading the way.“He’s made a commitment to do it every day, not just when we’re under the bright lights,” Sabres right winger Kyle Okposo said of Eichel. “He’s done a really good job in practice of setting the tone and setting the pace. He’s the best player on our team and if he’s the hardest worker every day, the team is going to follow him.”“It’s really, really early but we’ve put in the work throughout the summer and in training camp Rickard Rakell Jersey ,” Sabres right winger Jason Pominville said. “It’s a different vibe, a different atmosphere. It’s definitely nice to be able to get the start that we have had for sure.”Sabres defenseman Zach Bogosian (lower-body injury) skated with the team Wednesday for the first time since he was injured Sept. 25 and will need more practice time before he returns to the lineup.Centers Vladimir Sobotka (upper body), who was injured in the season opener, and Johan Larsson (lower body), who has not played this season, have returned to practice but coach Phil Housley said their status has not been determined for Thursday.Avalanche defenseman Patrik Nemeth (upper body) will return to the lineup Thursday and center Vladislav Kamenev will probably make his season debut. Nemeth was injured in the season opener Oct. 4 against the Minnesota Wild.Kamenev was recalled by the Avalanche Sunday after playing two games with the Colorado Eagles of the American Hockey League. Kamenev has five games of NHL experience, three with the Avalanche last season after being acquired in a trade with the Nashville Predators Nov. 5. He missed 50 games in 2017-18 with a broken arm.“It is a good time to give him an opportunity,” Bednar said. “He’s played a couple games over the weekend, he’s been up and practiced for a few days and is energized and ready to go.” PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mikko Rantanen had two goals, Matt Nieto and Gabriel Landeskog also scored Womens Ryan Getzlaf Jersey , and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 on Monday night.The Avalanche continued their early-season hot streak and finished 3-0-1 on their four-game road trip. Landeskog had a hat trick on the trip against New Jersey and clinched this one with his eighth goal of the season early in the third period.Semyon Varlamov was solid in net and stopped 37 shots.The Flyers suffered their third home loss of the season.Rantanen needed only 3:23 to beat Brian Elliott for his third goal of the season and the quick lead. Nathan MacKinnon set up Rantanen for the power-play score, and they became the first players in franchise history with concurrent nine-game point streaks to start the season.Nolan Patrick scored a third-period goal for the Flyers. Brian Elliott finished with 29 saves.HURRICANES 3, RED WINGS 1DETROIT (AP) — Michael Ferland scored in his fourth straight game and Sebastian Aho had an assist and set a franchise record for points in consecutive games to start a season as Carolina snapped a three-game losing streak.Defenseman Justin Faulk also scored, and Jordan Martinook added an empty-net goal for the Hurricanes.Petr Mrazek, who was drafted by Detroit in 2010 and played a number of seasons with the Red wings, made 20 saves.Sebastian assisted on Ferland’s second-period goal. The assist stretched his season-opening points streak to nine games (four goals and 10 assists), surpassing the franchise record of eight by Victor Rask (2016-17).Andreas Athanasiou scored for Detroit.JETS 5, BLUES 4, OTWINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Bryan Little tied it late in the third period and Jacob Trouba scored in overtime to help Winnipeg overcome a two-goal deficit.Trouba took a pass from Kyle Connor and shot into an open side of the net behind goalie Jake Allen. It was Trouba’s first goal of the season.Mark Scheifele scored twice and Ben Chiarot added a goal Winnipeg.Ryan O’Reilly had a goal and two assists for St. Louis http://www.officialducks.com/authentic-adidas-ryan-kesler-jersey , and David Perron, Vince Dunn and Colton Parayko also scored.Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for Winnipeg (6-2-1), which has points in five straight games (4-0-1).Allen stopped 31 shots for the Blues (2-3-3), who finished a three-game trip (1-1-1) through Canada.CAPITALS 5, CANUCKS 2VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Alex Ovechkin had two goals and two assists to lift Washington over Vancouver.The defending Stanley Cup champions also got goals from John Carlson, Evgeny Kuznetsov and T.J. Oshie.Troy Stecher and Sven Baertschi scored for the Canucks.Braden Holtby stopped 22 shots for Washington, while Vancouver’s Anders Nilsson turned away 28.