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LAS VEGAS (AP) The Vegas Golden Knights have done an excellent job of not looking too far ahead in their inaugural season.It has served them well during their amazing run as an expansion team Gabriel Landeskog Jersey Kids , all the way to the top of the NHL standings.After Saturday’s 6-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens, the Golden Knights lead the NHL with 82 points.Article continues below ...According to the league, Vegas is the first expansion team in its inaugural season to hold the outright lead in the standings this late into a season – 58 games played – besting the 1967-68 Kings, who led the league through 19 games on Nov. 24, 1967.But as veteran goalkeeper and three-time Stanley Cup winner Marc-Andre Fleury said, there is a point in the season every team is either trying to get into the playoffs or stay positioned where they are for the postseason.”Right now, we’re in good shape,” Fleury said. ”We are aware where we are, but we can’t just sit back. We have to keep chasing those points night after night.”The cliche of ”one game at a time” has transitioned into playing with a sense of urgency with seven weeks left in the regular season.Four games into a seven-game homestand, Vegas has won three straight since losing to Philadelphia on Feb. 11. The Golden Knights responded with wins over Chicago, Edmonton, and the Canadiens, outscoring the three by a combined 15-6.”We’re in a good spot right now http://www.officialavalanche.com/authentic-adidas-j.t.-compher-jersey , we’re happy where we are, but we’re a team that’s always going to have something to prove,” defenseman Brayden McNabb said.”I think everyone probably watches the standings, a little more closer in the West than the East. It’s one thing about having a lot of points early and being in first place in the West.”It’s a little different with this group, we all have something to prove still. We’re an expansion team, no one ever thought we’d be here, where we are right now.”Nevertheless, McNabb said coach Gerard Gallant has done a good job of keeping his players focused, ensuring they’re performing their best each game.”The whole point of taking it day by day is you’re not focused on the big picture and I feel like that’s a good approach for our team to have,” defenseman Shea Theodore said.”You can’t look too far ahead, it’s just kind of how we’re rolling and we’re doing a good job with that. I feel like we’ve done a good job of showing the league we’re for real.”Even team owner Bill Foley has gotten in on the act of not looking too far ahead. After Saturday night’s win, Foley expressed concern over Theodore’s recent throat infection that kept him out of the lineup, he spoke about Pierre-Edouard Bellemare getting injured during the game and said while he is happy with his team’s success it’s important not to become complacent.”But it is fun Youth Matt Nieto Jersey , it’s great,” Foley said. ”One thing we did when we did the expansion draft, it was a lot of hard work, and we put a lot of planning into it. We had five mock draft sessions in the expansion draft. We knew other teams as well or better than they knew themselves. So, we knew what we were getting. And (general manager) George (McPhee) did a phenomenal job in making some key deals. The result is what we have.”We have guys that have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder and they want to play hard, and they really play hard against their former teams.”With Saturday’s win over one of the NHL’s Original Six teams, Vegas improved to 22-4-2 at T-Mobile Arena, matching the 1979-80 Hartford Whalers (22-12-6) for the most home wins by a team in its first season.It doesn’t get any easier for Vegas, which is 14-1-1 against Pacific Division teams, and faces key games this upcoming week against Anaheim on Monday, Calgary on Wednesday and Vancouver on Friday.”The schedule is going to be tough with a lot of games coming up,” Fleury said. ”We gotta find a way to be consistent all those nights and keep fighting. We still gotta focus playing one game at a time. You don’t want to think too far down the road. Every game is important.”Veteran defenseman Deryk Engelland agreed.”We’ve been doing a good job all year of taking it one game at a time and treating every game as a must win. It’s a tight division, it’s a tight conference and we just have to take it one game at a time.”Come April 8 Mikko Rantanen Jersey , we can maybe gear up from there, but from now `til then it’s one game at time and get ready for the next one.”— ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Coming off a tough loss, a two-hour flight and a miserable first period, the Philadelphia Flyers did what they’ve been doing for the last five weeks. They won.James van Riemsdyk scored two goals, including the game-winner late in the third period, as the Flyers beat the Minnesota Wild 5-4 on Tuesday night.Sean Couturier and Claude Giroux each had a goal and an assist and Ivan Provorov also scored for the Flyers, who are 11-2-1 since Jan. 9. One of those losses was on Monday night, a frustrating 4-1 defeat against the Penguins in which the Flyers logged 51 shots on goal.After falling behind 3-1 in the first period, the Flyers regrouped and looked like a different team the last two periods.“A couple of guys were vocal in the locker room in between,” said goalie Anthony Stolarz, who made 35 saves. “This isn’t an easy back-to-back, a two-hour flight last night and having to play. It was tough Nathan MacKinnon Jersey , but we battled back.”Luke Kunin scored twice, while Zach Parise and Jared Spurgeon added goals for the Wild, who fell to 1-4-2 since the All-Star break.“Maybe we were playing content and happy with the 3-1 lead and stopped working,” Kunin said. “You can’t do that with any team in this league. When you stop working and not playing that full 60, it’s going to cost you.”Van Riemsdyk broke a 4-4 tie on a power play with 4:29 remaining, banking home a rebound off Devan Dubnyk in a scramble near the net. It was the 11th power-play goal allowed by Minnesota in its last 10 games, and it came with Nick Seeler in the penalty box for tripping a Flyer along the side boards.“It’s happened all year. I don’t know if you can count on both hands how many times in the third period it’s been tied and we take a penalty and they score in the last seven minutes, eight minutes,” Minnesota coach Bruce Boudreau said. “I find it mind-boggling.”Minnesota had taken a 4-3 lead early in the third period on a goal by Spurgeon that was awarded after a video review. His shot from a sharp angle appeared to hit off the crossbar, but at the next stoppage the play was reviewed. Video showed the puck hitting the underside of the crossbar and dropping into the net before spinning back out.Philadelphia tied it at 6:30 when the Wild got caught in a line change, leaving Giroux and Jakub Voracek alone on a two-man rush. Voracek left a drop pass for Giroux, who beat Dubnyk with a slap shot from the top of the right circle.“They came off when they shouldn’t have come off,” Boudreau said Authentic Alexander Wennberg Jersey , explaining the bad line change. “It wasn’t a very good play.”The Flyers struck first, with Provorov scoring less than three minutes into the game on a deflected slap shot.But the Wild recovered quickly, thanks in part to two quick Flyers penalties that gave Minnesota a two-man advantage for 1:52.Parise tied it during the 5-on-3. He took a pass from Mikael Granlund at the left of the net and banked it off Stolarz for his team-leading 23rd goal of the season.Kunin then scored two quick goals to put Minnesota on top 3-1.Stolarz kept the Wild in check with a sprawling save of a point-blank shot by Jordan Greenway in the second period. The Flyers then tied the game shortly after with two consecutive goals from van Riemsdyk and Couturier.“To find a way to dig ourselves out of a hole, as a coach, that’s a real proud moment to be a part of,” Flyers interim coach Scott Gordon said. “That’s what I told the players — nobody quit, and we just stayed with it. They deserved it.”After weathering an 0-6-2 stretch in late December and early January — which came after coach Dave Hakstol had already been fired — the Flyers are now just six points out of the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.“We’ve been through a lot this year and when things are not going as well as we like, we find a way to get something positive and take one shift at a time and try to bounce back,” Couturier said. “Tonight that’s kind of the game we played.”NOTES: The Wild honored recently retired Twins star Joe Mauer in a pregame ceremony. The players wore custom Twins-themed jerseys during their pregame skate and Mauer dropped the puck in a ceremonial faceoff. … The Flyers loaned goalie Brian Elliot to Lehigh Valley (AHL) for a conditioning stint on Tuesday. He hasn’t played for Philadelphia since Nov. 15 and was placed on injured reserve with a lower-body injury.UP NEXTFlyers: Host Detroit on Saturday afternoon.Wild: Host New Jersey on Friday.