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VANCOUVER Buffalo Sabres T-Shirts Authentic , British Columbia (AP) — Elias Pettersson was hard on himself after his first game back from a knee injury. His coach was more forgiving.Pettersson had a goal and an assist, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 on Sunday.“I felt I lost the puck a few times, made some bad decisions, some turnovers. But I’ve just got to play it simple,” Pettersson said.The 20-year-old rookie, who ran his point total this season to 44, missed five games after suffering an MCL sprain against Montreal on Jan. 3.“I thought he was pretty good for being out for a bit,” Vancouver coach Travis Green said.“Whenever you miss (games with) an injury, and especially an injury that’s with your lower body, your leg, your knee, it takes a couple games.”Antoine Roussel scored the go-ahead goal in the third period, and Bo Horvat also scored for Vancouver.Pettersson’s goal gave Vancouver the early lead, but the team had to rally from a 2-1 deficit after an ugly second period.“We were lucky they didn’t score more in the second Buffalo Sabres Hoodies Authentic ,” Green said, adding that he wasn’t sure whether to berate his team during the second intermission or just feel sorry for them.“I just said, ‘Hey, we’ve got a chance to win. If you haven’t been good tonight, look in the mirror.’ And give them credit — they did. They found their game. And when a team responds, you’re proud of them.”Roussel broke a 2-2 tie with 6:47 remaining in the game, tipping in a shot fired by Jake Virtanen. The play came less than three minutes after Bernier stopped Roussel on a breakaway.Horvat evened the game 7:27 into the third period, sweeping in a low wrist shot in for his 18th goal of the season.The tally broke a scoring drought for Horvat, who had 38 shots without a goal in his previous 11 games.“It definitely put a smile on my face to score a big goal like that,” he said. “It’s funny how it works. You have all these grade-A chances that all should have gone in and that one goes in, so I’m definitely happy to get one for sure.”Frans Nielsen and Thomas Vanek scored for Detroit.Jacob Markstrom stopped 35 shots for the Canucks, and Wings goalie Jonathan Bernier had 28 saves.Vanek said it was frustrating for his team to give up another third-period lead.“It’s tough. We’re all pros, we want to win,” he said. “It’s no fun when you keep losing Buffalo Sabres Hats Authentic , but I think at least we are at the stage where we are playing consistently well. There’s not bonus points for that unfortunately, but as a group we just have to put it behind us.”The Wings dropped a 6-4 decision in Calgary on Friday.“That’s the league right now,” coach Jeff Blashill said. “It’s so tight that when you get on a roll you can really get on a roll. But that goes both ways, winning and losing, and right now we’re on a roll the wrong way. We just keep finding ways to lose hockey games.”NOTES: Nielsen’s second-period goal marked the 450th point of his NHL career. … Brock Boeser had two assists for the Canucks. He now has five points in four games. … Detroit D Dennis Cholowski was a healthy scratch for the first time in his rookie season. The native of Langley, British Columbia, has seven goals and nine assists across 47 games.UP NEXTThe Wings will wrap up a Canadian road swing Tuesday when they visit the Oilers in Edmonton.The Canucks have one more game before the All-Star break. They’ll host the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday. NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Brett Connolly sparked a three-goal second period and the Washington Capitals moved into first place in the Metropolitan Division with a 4-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.Evgeny Kuznetsov and Tom Wilson also scored in the second as the defending Stanley Cup champions won for the 10th time in 13 games. Andre Burakovsky got the other goal and backup goalie Pheonix Copley made 20 saves in winning his sixth straight since the All-Star break.Washington started the day tied with the Islanders for first place in the division, but it took over with the win and New York’s 5-0 loss to Boston. The Capitals and Islanders each have nine games left in the regular season.Kenny Agostino scored for the third time in five games for New Jersey. MacKenzie Blackwood made 18 saves as the Devils lost to the Capitals for the third time in four meetings this seasonHURRICANES 3, PENGUINS 2, SORALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dougie Hamilton scored in the shootout, Petr Mrazek stopped Pittsburgh cold and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Penguins.Justin Williams scored the tying goal with 1:56 left in regulation, and Brock McGinn also scored for the Hurricanes.They won their fourth in five games and earned an important two points in the tight Eastern Conference playoff race — and perhaps just as important Custom Buffalo Sabres Jerseys , prevented the Penguins from picking up a second point.Jake Guentzel had a goal and an assist, Kris Letang scored a late goal, Bryan Rust had two assists and Matt Murray made 37 saves for the Penguins, who have lost three straight — the past two in either overtime or the shootout — but have earned points in nine of their past 10 games against Metropolitan Division opponents.CANADIENS 3, FLYERS 1PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Brendan Gallagher, Shea Weber and Max Domi scored goals, Carey Price stopped 32 shots and Montreal earned a win over Philadelphia.The Canadiens and Flyers are both chasing a wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. Montreal entered three points behind Columbus for eighth place in the East and the Flyers were six points out with 78.With less than 10 games left for each team, time has about run out for the Flyers to complete their desperate playoff push. The Canadiens, well, they have a playoff pulse after losing two straight and four of five overall.PREDATORS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 0NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pekka Rinne shut out Toronto for the second time this season and Brian Boyle, Wayne Simmonds and Filip Forsberg scored goals to give Nashville a win over the Maple Leafs.Nashville won its third straight and Toronto lost for the fourth time in five games.Rinne made 22 saves and Toronto goalie Frederik Andersen made 17 stops.Nashville pulled within one point of first-place Winnipeg in the Central Division. But the Predators have played two more games.Toronto fell six points behind second-place Boston in the Atlantic Division.Nashville also beat Toronto 4-0 on Jan. 7 when Rinne made 18 saves.BRUINS 5, ISLANDERS 0UNIONDALE www.officialflames.com , N.Y. (AP) — Sean Kuraly scored twice and Tuukka Rask earned his 45th career shutout and Boston beat the Islanders.Noel Acciari, Patrice Bergeron and Jake DeBrusk also had goals to help the Bruins win their second straight since a three-game skid that followed their 19-game point streak (15-0-4). Boston has won seven consecutive meetings between the teams — eight in a row in New York.Rask had to make only 13 saves for his fourth shutout this season, and first ever against the Islanders.Robin Lehner, making first start since he was injured March 5 late in New York’s 5-4 shootout win at home against Ottawa, finished with 34 saves. The Islanders’ 13 shots were their fewest of the season.David Pastrnak returned to the Bruins’ lineup for first time since Feb. 10. He missed 16 games with a thumb injury sustained when he fell after a team dinner.FLAMES 4, BLUE JACKETS 2CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Johnny Gaudreau scored his team-leading 35th goal and Michael Frolik added a goal and an assist and Calgary earned a win over Columbus.David Rittich made 31 saves to win his fourth start in a row. Andrew Mangiapane and Matthew Tkachuk also scored for the Flames and Austin Czarnik had two assists.Oliver Bjorkstrand and defenseman Zach Werenski scored for Columbus. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 27 shots in the loss.The Flames were the first Western Conference team to clinch a playoff spot Sunday.With nine games remaining in the regular season, their objective is staying atop the Pacific Division and ahead of the San Jose Sharks.San Jose was idle Tuesday but clinched a playoff spot when the Minnesota Wild lost to the Colorado Avalanche.Columbus leads the Eastern Conference’s final wild-card spot by one point after Montreal’s 3-1 win in Philadelphia.STARS 4, PANTHERS 2DALLAS (AP) — Alexander Radulov had two goals in the third period to lift Dallas over Florida.Coach Jim Montgomery reunited the Stars‘ three top scorers on the first line during the first period. In addition to Radulov’s two goals and an assist, Jamie Benn had a goal and two assists and Tyler Seguin assisted on all four goals.The Stars remained in position for the Western Conference’s first wild-card spot and stayed within two points of third-place St. Louis in the Central Division.Midway through the third period, Seguin reached up to keep the puck inside the blue line. He then passed to Benn for a 2-on-1 break. Benn passed across to Radulov, who beat Panthers rookie goalie Sam Montembeault with a snap shot to make it 3-2.Radulov was awarded the empty-net goal, his 24th of the season because a Florida player threw his stick at the puck.John Klingberg scored on the power play in the second period to give Dallas a 2-1 lead.AVALANCHE 3, WILD 1ST. PAUL Calgary Flames T-Shirts Authentic , Minn. (AP) — Philipp Grubauer made 36 saves to lift Colorado over the Wild in a game that had playoff implications in Minnesota and elsewhere.Tyson Barrie, Tyson Jost and Ian Cole scored for Colorado, which won its second straight game.Minnesota remained one point behind the idle Arizona Coyotes for the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference, while the Avalanche got within one point of the Wild and two of Arizona. Colorado also has a game in hand on Minnesota.The result also clinched a playoff berth for the San Jose Sharks.Zach Parise scored and Devan Dubnyk stopped 35 shots for Minnesota.BLUES 7, OILERS 2ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jaden Schwartz had three goals and an assist, David Perron added two goals and two assists, and St. Louis routed the Edmonton.Schwartz scored once in each period for his fourth career hat trick and first since Oct. 18, 2017, against Chicago.Alex Pietrangelo and Pat Maroon also scored for the Blues, who outshot Edmonton 44-17 and improved to 6-1-2 in their past nine home games against the Oilers.RED WINGS 3, RANGERS 2NEW YORK (AP) — Andreas Athanasiou scored twice and Detroit beat New York.Frans Nielsen also scored and Taro Hirose recorded an assist during his NHL debut for Detroit, which won its second straight but has already been eliminated from playoff contention.Jimmy Howard stopped 41 shots.Ryan Strome and Brendan Smith scored, but the Rangers dropped their fifth consecutive game and inched closer to being knocked out of the playoff race for the second straight season. Henrik Lundqvist made 27 saves.