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PHILADELPHIA (AP) Suddenly short-handed Florida Panthers Hoodies Womens , the Philadelphia Flyers aren’t going to let a few injuries stop them.Jakub Voracek scored the tying goal with 1:25 left in regulation and then got the game-winner 1:26 into overtime to lift the Flyers to a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.Voracek also had an assist and Nolan Patrick had the other goal for Philadelphia, which improved to 7-0-2 in its last nine games. The Flyers, third in the Metropolitan Division, pulled two points behind second-place Pittsburgh and three behind first-place Washington.Article continues below ...”That’s a nice way to get two points,” Philadelphia coach Dave Hakstol said.It’s even better, perhaps, considering the state of the Flyers.The Flyers were without forward Wayne Simmonds, who will be out for 2-to-3 weeks after suffering an upper-body injury in Sunday’s win over the New York Rangers.Simmonds joins a growing list of injured Flyers. Starting goalie Brian Elliott had surgery Feb. 13 for a core muscle injury and is expected to miss up to five more weeks. Backup Michal Neuvirth, who was elevated to No. 1 last Tuesday after Elliott’s injury, will be sidelined 4-to-6 weeks after suffering a lower body injury in Sunday’s game.”You just have to dig in,” Voracek said. ”We have to find a way to win games. We’ve got to keep finding a way.”Philadelphia acquired goalie Petr Mrazek from Detroit on Monday night for a pair of draft picks to fill the void. Mrazek backed up Alex Lyon on Tuesday. Lyon, appearing in his fifth career game, made 25 saves for his second victory.”He took care of business and was a big part of us winning a hockey game,” Hakstol said of Lyon. ”We’re going to need contributions from everybody in our lineup.”Oskar Lindblom replaced Simmonds, who has 20 goals and 37 points, and didn’t register a point in his NHL debut.”Those are big shoes to fill Florida Panthers Hats Womens , but I don’t think anybody spends too much time thinking about the injuries or who’s out of the lineup,” Hakstol said.Paul Byron and Jeff Petry scored for Montreal, which lost its sixth straight. The Canadiens’ NHL-worst road record fell to 8-19-2.With Lyon pulled for an extra attacker, Voracek sent the game to overtime with a slap shot from the point that deflected off Montreal’s Max Pacioretty and through goalie Carey Price’s five-hole.”It’s not ideal, that’s for sure,” Price said of giving up the late tying goal. ”Pretty good game up to that point. That pretty much sums it up, really.”Voracek netted the game-winner when he skated to the slot and fired a wrist shot past Price’s glove side.”We would have liked to prove something on the road, but we weren’t able to,” Pacioretty said. ”We were close tonight and it goes off my stick and goes in for the tie, so it’s tough.”Price played in his 552nd game for the Canadiens to move past Patrick Roy for second all-time in games played among Montreal goalies. Jacques Plante tops the list with 556.Byron scored his 14th of the season after a pretty assist from Tomas Plekanec with 11:15 left in the third period to put Montreal up 2-1.Petry opened the scoring with 2:13 left in the first period when he deflected Karl Alzner’s shot from the point past Lyon.The Flyers tied it on the power play 7:18 into the second period when Patrick, replacing Simmonds on Philadelphia’s top extra-man unit, one-timed Claude Giroux’s pass from the slot past Price’s glove side.NOTES: Montreal C Phillip Danault returned for the first time since suffering a concussion on Jan. 13. … The teams wrap up their season series Feb. 26 at Montreal. … LW Nicolas Deslauriers, who signed a two-year contract extension on Monday, won a one-sided fight with Brandon Manning in the second period. … The Flyers have not played short-handed in three straight games, becoming the first team to do so since the league started keeping power-play and penalty-kill stats in the 1977-78 season. … Flyers C Travis Konecny struggled to get through the game after blocking a shot with his skate with 5:02 left in the first period.UP NEXTCanadiens: Host the New York Rangers on Thursday night to open a four-game homestand.Flyers: Host Columbus on Thursday night. GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Jacob Markstrom’s first start in five games was a successful one Custom Florida Panthers Jerseys , and his 42 saves helped the Vancouver Canucks beat the Arizona Coyotes 3-1 on Sunday night.Daniel Sedin broke a tie with 8:17 to play by scoring his second goal of the game, giving Markstrom his first win in two weeks. On the winner, Sedin tipped in a long shot from Brock Boeser for his 18th goal of the season.Darren Archibald scored a short-handed goal with 5:52 to go to help Vancouver win for the second time in six games.Markstrom gave up four goals the last time he played, Feb. 14 against Florida.”I only played one period, so it’s been frustrating having that as the last game I played,” he said. ”I wanted to erase that from my memory.”The Canucks spoiled the debut of new Coyotes goaltender Darcy Kuemper, who arrived in a trade with the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday. Kuemper made 24 saves.”We’re playing better as a team and it makes it easier for all of us,” Sedin said.Vancouver held a 1-0 lead until midway through the third period on Sedin’s early goal. But the Coyotes ended an 0-for-17 power-play drought that spanned four games with Alex Goligoski’s goal at 9:18 of the third.Goligoski put in a rebound for his ninth goal of the season.The Canucks responded quickly with Sedin’s goal, then Brandon Sutter got free on a Coyotes power play, found Archibald on the wing and he put away his second of the season.The Canucks got a big break when a Coyotes goal 43 seconds into the game was disallowed by a goaltender interference penalty against Brad Richardson. He collided with Markstrom in the net as teammate Nick Cousins’ shot went in.Vancouver scored on the resulting power play with some crisp passing. Henrik Sedin found Derrick Pouliot, who tapped the puck over to Daniel Sedin for a clear shot. Kuemper was too far to the other side to stop the puck and Daniel Sedin had his first goal at 2:16 of the first.”That was a double whammy for us,” Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said.Henrik Sedin picked up his team-leading 38th assist of the season. The Canucks have a power-play goal in three straight games.The second period featured saves by each goalie on breakaways. Kuemper turned away Canucks center Bo Horvat’s attempt, and a few minutes later, at the 8:26 mark, Markstrom stopped Clayton Keller’s open drive.”Getting that first game under my belt, I feel more a part of it now and a part of the group now www.kingsproshop.com ,” Kuemper said.The Canucks improved to 4-4 in the second of back-to-back games this season, while Arizona is 1-7-2.NOTES: It was the first of four meetings between the teams. With 20 games left for each club, they’ll play three more times before the regular season ends. … The Canucks scratched Thomas Vanek, who is tied for second on the team in goals with 17, amid speculation he could be dealt by Monday afternoon’s NHL trade deadline. Vanek had not missed a game all season. ”There’s a chance it might happen, there’s a chance it might not happen, too,” Vancouver coach Travis Green said of a deal for the 34-year-old forward. … D Alex Edler and forward Loui Eriksson left the ice late in the third period with apparent injuries, Edler on a blocked shot and Eriksson on a hit from Arizona’s Max Domi, but no update was given after the game. … Coyotes forward Richard Panik is day-to-day with a lower-body injury, but missed a second straight game. … Nineteen-year-old Coyotes D Jakob Chychrun played his 100th NHL game.UP NEXTCanucks: At Colorado on Monday night.Coyotes: Host Minnesota on Thursday night.—A previous version of this story was corrected with the time of Sedin’s tiebreaking goal, and a save was added to Markstrom’s total to reflect an official scoring change.—
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