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SAN JOSE Xavier Ouellet Jersey Womens , Calif. (AP) —play their best game, the San Jose Sharks found a way to rise to the occasion.Timo Meier scored two goals, Logan Couture had two assists and San Jose defeated the Dallas Stars 3-2 Thursday.After totaling 10 goals in their previous two games, the Sharks were scoreless for the first 36:20.“I didn’t think we started great,” coach Pete DeBoer said. “You have to give (the Stars) some credit. I thought they played a very good game for back-to-back games. I thought they were tight and didn’t give us a lot of room.“I think as the season goes on and you travel, some nights you feel better than others, and tonight was a night where I thought we were off a little TJ Brodie Jersey , but we battled and found a way to win.”Meier’s 17th and 18th goals sent the Sharks to their third straight win and fifth in six games. Meier has four goals in his last two games and 10 points (five goals, five assists) in his past six contests.Joe Thornton also scored and Martin Jones made 20 saves for the Sharks.A fortuitous bounce figured prominently in Thornton’s goal, with the puck caroming off a shin pad in front.“Yeah, just one of those where it just pops out and there was an open net,” Thornton said. “Just good fortune, I guess.”San Jose prevented a three-game season series sweep by Dallas, which had won three straight and six of seven against the Sharks. Dallas has lost three in a row overall after winning its previous four.“I thought tonight we played a really hard game Womens Travis Hamonic Jersey ,” Stars forward Blake Comeau said. “We played in a tough building against a really good team on a back-to-back . but it’s a results-based league. It’s disappointing we didn’t get the win, but that being said, I thought we did a lot better job tonight than we did in Anaheim and that’s a good step moving forward.”Meier scored at 2:50 of the third period to break a 1-all tie. Just more than five minutes later, the Sharks made it 3-1 on Thornton’s fifth goal of the season.Miro Heiskanen scored his seventh for Dallas with 7:36 left to make it 3-2.Radek Faksa scored at 3:35 of the second to give the Stars a 1-0 lead. Faksa jumped on the rebound of Julius Honka’s shot in front and put the puck past Jones for his fifth goal.Meier tied it at 16:20 of the second, firing a shot from 5 feet inside the blue line through a crowd of players off a faceoff.Stars goalie Anton Khudobin turned back 21 shots after going 5-1 with a 1.32 goals-against average in his previous six games against San Jose.“I thought our effort was pretty good tonight,” Stars coach Jim Montgomery said. “The chances were almost even, the shots were almost even. They get that shot off a shin pad that goes to Thornton on a back door . we didn’t get that bounce.”NOTES: Thornton was in the lineup after missing Wednesday’s practice and Thursday’s optional skate with an undisclosed injury. … Couture has 11 points (two goals Florida Panthers Hoodies Womens , nine assists) in his last nine games. … Stars D Gavin Bayreuther was a healthy scratch. … Stars C Martin Hanzal was a scratch after playing three straight games, his first action since undergoing spinal fusion surgery in April. … Dallas didn’t hold a morning skate after playing in Anaheim on Wednesday night. … The Sharks had five shots on goal and the Stars three in the first period.UP NEXTStars: Wrap up four-game road trip Saturday in Colorado.Sharks: Play at Chicago on Sunday. MONTREAL (AP) Brayden Point scored in regulation and added the shootout winner and the Tampa Bay Lightning regained the top spot in the NHL with a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.Nikita Kucherov and Ryan Callahan also scored in regulation to help the Lightning (42-17-3) win their third straight and move a point ahead of idle Vegas for the overall NHL lead.Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves for his league-leading 36th victory of the season.Steven Stamkos fought Karl Alzner in the first period after objecting to a knee-on-knee hit onh Kucherov. Stamkos was given 17 minutes of penalties on the play.”I was watching Kucherov and it looked like a knee, fast,” Stamkos said. ”And he kind of held his knee so I didn’t know if he was hurt or not. It was just kind of a reaction thing. I know Alzner well and he’s not a dirty player. It wasn’t as malicious as I thought at the time.”Byron Froese, Joe Morrow and Max Pacioretty scored for Montreal. Antti Niemi, making his second straight start in relief of the injured Carey Price, stopped 36 shots. Price is sidelined indefinitely with a concussion.Montreal fought off Morrow’s high-sticking penalty in overtime to force a shootout http://www.officialhurricanes.com/authentic-adidas-andrei-svechnikov-jersey , where Point beat Niemi top shelf for the only goal.”We maintained a good rhythm from start to finish,” Canadiens coach Claude Julien said. ”There were some defensive mistakes that led to good scoring chances on both sides. Our goalie played a great game. Happy with the overall effort.”Montreal’s Tomas Plekanec, for precautionary reasons, was a healthy scratch. The Canadiens are expected to trade the veteran center before Monday’s trade deadline. Jacob de la Rose centered the third line in Plekanec’s absence.Froese opened the scoring by deflecting Jordie Benn’s shot from the blue line past Vasilevskiy at 8:52 of the first period.Tampa tied it when Point crossed up defensemen Benn and Morrow before beating Niemi to the blocker side at 12:07.Kucherov gave Tampa Bay a 2-1 lead on a power play at 7:32 of the second period to extend his point streak to nine games. Kucherov went five-hole on Niemi with a one-timer for his team-leading 33rd goal.Less than two minutes later, Morrow tied it with a precise wrist shot through traffic and off the post.Pacioretty, with the man advantage, ended an 11-game goal drought to give Montreal a 3-2 lead at 16:29 of the second period.With Phillip Danault in the box for slashing Brock McGinn Jersey Kids , Callahan made it 3-3 at 2:11 of the third when he redirected Kucherov’s shot past Niemi.NOTES: The Lightning have the second-best power play in the NHL. They finished 2 for 5 with the extra skater. … Kucherov has 16 points in his last nine games.UP NEXTLightning: Host Toronto on Monday night.Canadiens: Host Philadelphia on Monday night.