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DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings earned and got some breaks while extending their season-high winning streak to three games.Justin Abdelkader scored a short-handed goal midway through the third period and Trevor Daley put the puck in an empty net for another short-handed score in the final minute Chicago Blackhawks Hats Womens , helping Detroit beat the New Jersey Devils 4-3 on Thursday night.“We’re getting some bounces,” Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall said.The Devils pulled goaltender Cory Schneider with about 1 1/2 minutes left and a Detroit penalty gave them a two-man advantage. Daley cleared the puck from below Detroit’s goal line and it caromed off the boards and into the net with 42.8 seconds left, giving the Red Wings a two-goal lead they needed.“I wouldn’t say it was luck,” Devils coach John Hynes said. “They won the faceoff clean and wound up getting a good bounce. They dug in, won the faceoff, won it clean, and had an opportunity to at least have a chance to make that type of play.”Marcus Johansson scored for New Jersey with 4 seconds left on a goal that stood after review.Jimmy Howard made 25 saves for the Red Wings, who dropped their first seven games and nine of their first 10 overall in the worst start in franchise history.“Momentum is a huge part of this league, and that’s helping us a lot right now,” coach Jeff Blashill said.Schneider stopped 27 shots for the Devils, who have lost five of six after opening the season with four wins.“I think right now there’s a confidence issue,” Johansson said.Hynes insisted he’s not concerned.“You don’t instill confidence in anybody. You earn your confidence,” he said. “When we decide to play the right way and get more competitive and do the right things, that’s when confidence comes in.”Michael Rasmussen pulled Detroit into a tie with a power-play goal at the 4:59 mark of the third shortly after Sami Vatanen put New Jersey ahead.Detroit’s Martin Frk scored 7:54 into the game on a power play. New Jersey’s Blake Coleman tied the game late in the second.Luke Glendening took the puck away from New Jersey’s Will Butcher in Detroit’s end to set up Abdelkader’s go-ahead goal. The forward carried the puck up the ice and got a shot on net Adidas Patrik Berglund Jersey , leading to Abdelkader scoring off the rebound.“I’m the most important penalty killer, and I didn’t do a good enough job,” Schneider said. “They got two special-teams goals off rebounds and I really think I should have had their first power-play goal. It was a hard shot, but I need to get around to that.”Hynes disagreed with Schneider’s assessment of his performance.“I thought he played pretty well for some of the looks he got, some of the traffic, he made some big saves,” Hynes said. “From his part, that’s an encouraging sign for us.”NOTES: Wade Megan, a 28-year-old center, made his Detroit debut and played in his fourth NHL game. He took Joe Hicketts‘ roster spot after the 22-year-old defenseman was sent to the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins. … The Devils scratched F Stefan Noesen with an upper-body injury.UP NEXTDevils: Travel to play the New York Islanders on Saturday night.Red Wings: Host Edmonton on Saturday night. 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 Adidas Vladimir Sobotka Jersey , 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, 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 Adidas Scott Wedgewood Jersey , 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, 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 Adidas Carter Hutton 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.—