He set a team record with an eight-game points streak to open the season. The Jets will likely go with Ondrej Pavelec in this spot as they continue to implore a goaltender by committee and riding the hot hand and he will match up against James Reimer who looked brilliant against the Stars and gets another crack at the starter’s gig in an audition here tonight.
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Joffrey Lupul had two goals and an assist, James Reimer stopped 43 shots, and the Toronto Maple Leafs bet the Dallas Stars 4-1 Monday night to pick up their first home win of the season. He assisted at 19:47 of the third period on Morgan Rielly’s third goal of the season.
The decision by head coach Lindy Ruff and video coach Kelly Forbes to challenge the Maple Leafs for offside on proved smart in the first period as it erased a goal by Toronto’s Brad Boyes.
Virtanen, a 19-year-old playing his ninth National Hockey League game, scored on a nice individual move on a 2-on-1 rush 8:28 into the third period to give Vancouver a two-goal cushion.
On October 10th, the Dallas Stars were riding a strong opening night win against Pittsburgh into Colorado for their first road game of the year.
This season, Bernier has a 3.02 goals-against average and.
Rielly added another power-play score with 12.6 seconds left.
Los Angeles Kings goaltender Quick made 22 saves. “We had a couple of missed assignments right in front of our own net and that can change the game”. Like Lupul, they’re not coveted assets at this point in their careers and may find themselves out of the league altogether by season’s end. They kept up the pressure and it paid off with goals by Lupul at even strength and then on the power play. “I think as a group we’ve just got to work harder everyday and that’s the bottom line”.
“I can’t tell you if (the Canadiens) were really good because we were really bad or vice versa”, said coach Paul Maurice, whose team has yet to suffer consecutive losses in regulation.
“They’re hard to handle, but our goaltending was good tonight and gave us an opportunity to have a few success”, Babcock said. Not only that but he is stronger on his skates and I’ve seen him a number of times out muscle/hustle the puck away from forwards along the boards. Reimer denied Patrick Sharp from in close and drove Valeri Nichushkin wide on a penalty shot as part of his standout performance. But this was an overall effort better than the ones coach Mike Babcock’s team had shown in recent weeks.
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NOTES: Maple Leafs F Nick Spaling returned after missing three games with a lower-body injury.
