The Vancouver Canucks have climbed back to .500, yet head coach

EDMONTON http://www.officialdevils.com/authentic-adidas-cory-schneider-jersey , Alberta (AP) — The Vancouver Canucks have climbed back to .500, yet head coach Travis Green isn’t satisfied yet.Elias Pettersson and Antoine Roussel each had a goal and an assist as the Canucks defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 on Thursday night.The Canucks scored four goals on their first six shots. Tyler Motte and Brock Boeser also scored for Vancouver, which is 7-2-1 in its last 10 games.“From Day 1, we’ve talked about how we want to play,” Green said. “We want to be faster and harder to play against, and we wanted to play meaningful games down the stretch.“We’re not getting ahead of ourselves — we’re at .500 right now and we have a long way to go.”Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl scored for the Oilers, who have lost four straight.“It seemed like every mistake that we made in the first period, they made it count,” Oilers forward Milan Lucic said.“It was a tough one to come back to after the Christmas break. We have dug ourselves a little bit of a hole the last four games and we can’t afford to keep digging it. We have to find a way out, and it isn’t going to take just one or two guys, it is going to take everyone.”Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen gave up all four goals and made just two saves before being replaced by Cam Talbot Jesper Bratt Jersey Kids , who stopped all 14 shots he faced.Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves in the win for the Canucks.“This is how it should feel,” Markstrom said. “Winning shouldn’t be something you celebrate. It should be normal. …Winning should be normal, and in this organization we had that for a long time. That’s what we’re working to get back.”Vancouver started the scoring with a goal on their first shot four minutes into the opening period. Motte took a feed in the slot and beat Koskinen for his sixth goal of the season.The Canucks scored on their second shot, too, when, just a few minutes later Pettersson passed in front to Boeser, who scored his 13th goal.Edmonton got one of those goals back midway through the first period, when Connor McDavid found Nugent-Hopkins in front for a power-play goal. It was the first time in 10 games that Vancouver had allowed a power-play goal.Vancouver made it 3-1 with just over a minute left in the first, scoring on its fifth shot, when Pettersson tucked the puck under Koskinen’s arm for his 18th goal of the season.The Canucks got their fourth goal on their sixth shot at 19:49 off a giveaway in front, which Roussel put away for his fourth goal.It was the first time in nine years that Vancouver scored four goals in the first period of a road game.Talbot started the second period in the Edmonton net.Edmonton clawed back with a second power-play goal seven minutes into the second period on a wrist shot by Draisaitl.NOTES: The Oilers outshot the Canucks 32-20 in the game. … It was the second of four meetings between the teams this season Leo Komarov Jersey Womens , with the Canucks defeating Edmonton 4-2 on Dec. 16. The next meeting will be Jan. 16 in Vancouver. … Oilers forward Alex Chiasson left the game after taking a shot off of the knee in the first period and did not return.UP NEXTCanucks: At Calgary on Saturday.Oilers: Host the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Tuukka Rask tossed a broken skate blade up the ice in frustration, but hardly lost his cool.”I didn’t throw it at anybody,” the Boston goaltender said Saturday. ”If I threw it at somebody, I’d like to apologize, but I didn’t. I just wanted to make sure that everybody saw that my blade was off.”Rask settled after allowing a second-period goal while trying to let officials know he had a problem with his left skate, finishing with 34 saves in the Bruins‘ 6-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 1 of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series.Rick Nash had two goals and the Bruins’ high-scoring line of Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand combined for 11 points, however Rask’s ability to retain his composure after Mikhail Sergachev’s goal trimmed Boston’s lead to 3-2 was every bit as important.”He was really good,” Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said. ”He gave us more than a chance to win early on when we were still trying to find our legs. We weren’t executing very well. They were better than us, and then our top guys started finishing their chances.”Bergeron also scored twice and had an assist on one of Nash’s goals for the Bruins Womens Kyle Palmieri Jersey , who finished one point behind Tampa Bay for the Atlantic Division title, as well as the No. 1 seed in the East.Marchand had a goal and three assists, while Pastrnak finished with four assists in a dominating performance.A second goal by Marchand was waved off because of a cross-checking penalty on Pastrnak.”You need your best players to be your best players, and clearly that happened tonight for us,’ Cassidy said.Dan Girardi also scored for the Lightning, who trailed by one goal entering the third period.Marchand and Bergeron hiked Boston’s advantage to 5-2 before Jake DeBrusk added an empty-netter with 6:19 remaining.The Bruins had just 10 shots against Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy over the last two periods, but made the most of the limited opportunities.Game 2 is Monday night at Amalie Arena.The Lightning, in the conference semifinals for the third time in four years, remain confident.”We have a lot of experience. Guys have been in this position before,” center Tyler Johnson said. ”It’s one game. It doesn’t matter if you lose a game 3-2 or 12-2. It’s the same thing.”Rask won three of four starts against the Lightning during the regular season, with Tampa Bay’s lone victory coming in the final meeting.Pastrnak assisted on each of Boston’s first three goals and added another on Bergeron’s third-period goal http://www.officialbluejackets.com/authentic-adidas-david-savard-jersey , giving him 12 helpers in eight playoff games.”They’re good. … They’ve played together for a while and they know where to find each other,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said of Boston’s top line.”They play both ends of the rink. They’ve played on Olympic teams, World Cup teams, and every time you look up and Canada is winning, usually Marchand or Bergeron had something to do with it,” Cooper added. ”They’ve done it for a long time.”Nash, meanwhile, got his second and third goals of the postseason, scoring on the power play at 17:11 of the opening period and 12:33 of the second to put the Bruins up 3-1. Sergachev countered on the power play, trimming Tampa Bay’s deficit to 3-2.”We lost 6-2, so it doesn’t matter how we feel about how we played Anthony Mantha Jersey ,” Cooper said. ”We’re going to wake up in the morning, somebody is going to look at the score and say Tampa is down 1-0. Is there stuff we can build off this game? No question. But they got six, and in the end we have to raise the level of our game to get back in this series.”NOTES: Vasilevskiy stopped 18 shots. … When Rask lost the blade on his skate, play was allowed to continue because losing a blade is not considered a safety issue. … The Bruins and Lightning are meeting in the playoffs for only the second time. The teams also met in the 2011 Eastern Conference Final, won by Boston in seven games. Six current Bruins – Bergeron, Marchand, Rask, Zdeno Chara, David Krejci and Adam McQuaid were part of that team, which went on win the Stanley Cup.—