and Dallas Stars enter their New Year’s Eve tilt at American Airlines Center heading in opposite directions Custom Carolina Hurricanes Jerseys , but both clubs hope to end 2018 with a victory.Montreal (20-14-5) is concluding a six-game road trip and is 3-2-0 on after a 6-5 loss at Tampa Bay on Saturday.“I’d say we played our game. We’re fast, we can create things,” Montreal coach Claude Julien said postgame. “I thought defensively we were closing them quickly. I thought we did a pretty good job of getting on them.”Article continues below ...The Canadiens are 10-7-3 on the road this season.Heading into the third period against the Lightning, Montreal held a 5-4 advantage only to allow the high-powered Lightning offense to score two unanswered goals to prevail by one goal.“There are some things we can take that we did well,” Canadiens forward Brendan Gallagher said postgame. “We’ve been decent at that (holding leads heading into the third period) this year, so it’s disappointing to let one slip.”Montreal and Dallas have already met once this campaign with the Stars defeating the Canadiens 4-1 at Bell Centre on Oct. 30.Dallas (20-16-3) is on a two-game winning streak after a 5-1 drubbing of Detroit on Saturday, making the Stars 12-5-1 at home.And even though Dallas started a crucial stretch where 10 of its next 13 contests are on home ice with a victory www.officialblackhawksproshop.com , rookie coach Jim Montgomery moves forward with guarded optimism about whether these past two wins are signs that the ship has finally been righted.“I think it’s too early to say we’re building anything,” Montgomery said after Saturday’s win. “I think we’ve got to do it over a more extended period of time. In tonight’s (Saturday’s) win there were moments where we were a very good hockey team and there’s moments where we weren’t again. It’s not a consistent thing of how we’re playing together.”One aspect of Saturday’s win Montgomery wants to clean up is the Stars putting the Red Wings on the power play four times, leading to Detroit’s lone tall — from Dylan Larkin in the third period.“Not happy with it, I think it took away the momentum,” Montgomery said. “You can’t give refs the opportunity (to call penalties) by taking your stick off the ice. You’ve got to defend with your stick on the ice and you’ve got to skate to the defensive side. We had three stick penalties and one elbow.”As for Dallas’ win in Montreal two months ago, Montgomery said after Sunday’s practice that the victory was one starting goaltender Ben Bishop, who will also start Monday Chicago Blackhawks T-Shirts Authentic , stole by stopping 34 of 35 shots.“Claude (Julien) is an excellent coach and he’s got them playing real good hockey in my opinion,” Montgomery said of the Canadiens. “Coming off the Detroit game, it’s going to be a much faster game and a harder game for us. We need to be ready for it.”Bishop is 12-4-3 with a 1.73 goals-against average and .936 save percentage against the Canadiens. SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Bo Horvat came through with the winning goal on a milestone night.Horvat, playing in his 300th NHL game, scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period, leading the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers on Saturday night.“I think that was the icing on top Chicago Blackhawks Hoodies Authentic ,” Horvat said. “The win feels that much better.”Horvat gave the Canucks their first lead when he took a nifty pass from Sven Baertschi in the left circle and sent a one-timer in at 6:11 of the final period.“He couldn’t have made a better pass on his backhand to me, and all I had to do was tap it in from there,” Horvat said.Antoine Roussel and Elias Pettersson also scored for the Canucks, and Anders Nilsson stopped 24 shots. Baertschi had two assists.Petterson left the game after being pushed into the boards by Mike Matheson in the third period.“That’s a dirty play. The league is trying to protect the good young players and that’s just a dirty play,” Vancouver coach Travis Green said.Center Jay Beagle also left with an injury after blocking a shot. No update was available on either player postgame.“We had two centermen go down and we were stuck with two centers out there the last five minutes,” Horvat said. “To grind that one out and show the composure and the will to win there was great for our group.”Vincent Trocheck and Jonathan Huberdeau scored for the Panthers, who remain winless through three games. James Reimer made 27 saves.The Panthers had the lead twice but each time the Canucks were able to even the score within a couple of minutes.“Every time we take the lead it’s tough when the other team ties it up right after Chicago Blackhawks Hats Authentic ,” Florida coach Bob Boughner said. “That’s a pattern that’s got to change.”The Panthers haven’t been able to build on their late surge of last season, when they went 25-8-2 and missed the playoffs by a point.“Once we get a lead, we’ve got to learn how to win,” Boughner said. “Everything we worked hard for in the second half of last season, we’ve got to get some of that back.”With the score tied 1-1, Trocheck put the Panthers ahead on a shot from the right circle the got past Nilsson on the glove side with 2:40 left in the second.Less than a minute later, Roussel was awarded a penalty shot after he was hooked by Bogdan Kiselevich. Roussel beat Reimer on the glove side at with 1:45 left to tie the score 2-2.“It’s very disappointing Custom Chicago Blackhawks Jerseys ,” Panthers defenseman Keith Yandle said. “We’ve got to get on the horse and get going.”Huberdeau gave Florida a 1-0 lead with 7:29 left in the second when he poked in his own rebound.Pettersson tied the score 1-1 on a power-play goal with 5:12 left in the period as his wrister from the right circle beat Reimer. Pettersson tied the Canucks’ franchise record with a five-game point streak to start a career.NOTES: The Panthers celebrated G Roberto Luongo becoming only the third goaltender in NHL history to play 1,000 games in a pregame ceremony. Luongo reached the milestone last April 5. Luongo, who also played 448 games for the Canucks, is the NHL’s active wins leader (471) and stands fourth all-time in NHL wins. … Kiselevich made his NHL debut for the Panthers. … Roussel was activated from IR and made his season debut for Vancouver.UP NEXTCanucks: At Pittsburgh on Tuesday night.Panthers: At Philadelphia on Tuesday night.