However, he has struggled in the past two outings and played just 12:03 Saturday.
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“We are seeing some pretty good games from other teams right now”.
Kopitar has 13 points in his last 13 games.
“(Spezza) got a pretty nice goal early to fire us up and win the crowd”, Benn said.
Benn regained the National Hockey League lead with 22 goals, passing the Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko. “He senses the urgency when the team’s dipping”. However, the team saw a three-game winning streak and nine-game point streak come to an end on Saturday with a 3-2 regulation loss in Nashville as a late-game rally fell short of producing an equalizing goal. As Montreal tried to clear the puck from its zone, Benn belted Petry into the boards. But Petry’s attempt went to Benn, who beat Condon with a wrist shot over his blocker. Montreal is starting an eight-game road trip and won’t play again at Bell Centre until January 6 against New Jersey….
The loss snapped a seven-game win streak for the Flames.
“We lost some games at home that we believe we were playing some really good hockey, ” coach Michel Therrien said. “It’s not the same thing tonight”. “I don’t know why we don’t have confidence”, Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty told reporters. However, enough time has passed that I am now more critical of the player than the ref, because we’ve all had time to accept the chintzy nature of the infraction and, simply put, it can and must be avoided. In the process, they have not resembled the team that came blazing out of the gate in October and are 2-7-1 in their last ten games. The Kings earned just two power plays on Tuesday and the Sharks did not manage to get on the job even once against them Sunday.
Mike Condon had 17 saves before Dustin Tokarski replaced him with 15:33 remaining and the score 6-2.
While the Montreal Canadiens definitely are missing the presence of reigning Hart and Vezina Trophy victor Carey Price in net, their offense also has deserted them during a rough 1-7-0 stretch.
Spezza carried the puck from Dallas’ blue line to the right faceoff circle for his goal. Ruff said the battle to win in the Central also should toughen up the Stars. “There are times when you lose your cool a little bit, but we’ve been much better with our approach to games and being disciplined”.
Center Evgeni Malkin scored a power-play goal for Pittsburgh, which is 0-4-0 since coach Mike Sullivan took over for Mike Johnston last weekend.
Dallas overcame a 3-0 deficit in the third period, tied the game, and won on a Tyler Seguin goal in OT.
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The Michigan native is off to a strong start, according to the sum up of his last start on Wednesday where he registered his second hat trick of the season against Albany. Condon has allowed five goals in his last three games. Dallas D Alex Goligoski recorded his 200th career assist on Seguin’s second-period goal…. Dallas reached a season-high six goals for the third time.
