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VANCOUVER Montreal Canadiens T-Shirts Authentic , British Columbia (AP) The Colorado Avalanche’s power play was nearly nonexistent for weeks. It came up big in Vancouver.Nathan MacKinnon scored Colorado’s fifth power-play goal of the game 3:36 into overtime, lifting the Avalanche to a 5-4 victory over the Canucks on Tuesday night.Colorado trailed 4-1 with 4:18 left in a wild second period before storming back.Article continues below ...”We got some momentum,” said MacKinnon, who also had three assists. ”You don’t see a lot of 4-1 comebacks, especially nowadays. Teams usually shut it down.”To come back you need a good power play.”Coming in, the Avalanche were 1 for 28 with the man advantage over their previous eight games. Colorado’s power play was ranked 31st in the league on the road.”I think everyone was on their game,” said Tyson Barrie, who had a goal and four assists to set a franchise record for points by a defenseman in a regular-season game. ”We got ourselves down 4-1 and that’s not good enough. It showed a lot of character from the guys tonight. There was no quit. We didn’t change our game and our power play came up huge.”Barrie tied it with 3:01 left in the third on a one-timer with Vancouver’s Jake Virtanen off for hooking.Then, with Daniel Sedin off for hooking in overtime, Barrie passed to MacKinnon, who fired a shot from the faceoff circle past Canucks goalie Anders Nilsson.Colorado pulled three points out of the final wild card spot in the Western Conference.”We were talking about desperation and playing with urgency and we’ve lacked that a little bit in the last handful of games Montreal Canadiens Hoodies Authentic ,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. ”We felt other teams were turning it up and the competitiveness and urgency in everyone’s game at this point in the year was going up and ours wasn’t.”Tonight, we were kind of quiet (before the game), looked like a focused room. We were determined to stick with it and get rewarded.”Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists, Gabriel Landeskog added a goal and an assist, and Tyson Jost also scored for Colorado. Semyon Varlamov finished with 24 saves.Brandon Suter and Nikolay Goldobin each had a goal and an assist for the Canucks in a wild second period. Darren Archibald and Bo Horvat also scored for Vancouver. Nilsson stopped 29 shots.Colorado finished 5 for 6 on the power play, and Vancouver was 1 for 3.”I’ve never been part of a game where you score four goals, and don’t give up an even-strength goal, and lose,” Canucks coach Travis Green said.The rookie coach stated the obvious when he said the Vancouver penalty kills need improving.”We have to find a way to block shots and get some clears,” he said. ”There’s lots that goes into penalty kills. … When you give up five power-play goals, your penalty kill isn’t sharp enough.”The Canucks scored three goals 2:41 apart to build a 4-1 lead in the second period. Goldobin put Vancouver ahead on the power play when his shot from a sharp angle was tipped over Varlamov’s shoulder with 6:59 remaining. Goldobin then created a turnover a center-ice that allowed Sutter to break in and score on a shot that hit Varlamov’s glove and went in 51 seconds later.Horvat appeared to put the Canucks in control when he scored off Brock Boeser’s pass from behind the net with 4:18 left.Rantanen then beat Nilsson with a shot from the faceoff circle with 2:03 to go in the middle period Montreal Canadiens Hats Authentic , and Landeskog tipped a shot from side of the net with 37 seconds left to pull the Avalanche to 4-3 and cap the seven-goal period.”We need to learn how to close games, how to play with the lead,” Nilsson said. ”Maybe it’s a few penalties we can eliminate, and our penalty kill can play better. … Myself, I need to find some extra saves on the penalty kill. It’s team work and everyone needs to be a little better.”After a scoreless first period, Sutter made a nice play to set up the first goal of the game just 34 seconds into the second. Sutter stripped the puck from Avalanche defenseman Nikita Zadorov behind the net then one-handed a pass out front to Archibald, who beat Varlamov with a quick shot to the stick side.Jost tied the game at 10:46 when he deflected Barrie’s shot from the point under Nilsson’s arm.NOTES: The Canucks signed D Erik Gudbranson to a three-year, $12 million contract. … With G Jacob Markstrom sidelined with a minor injury, Richard Bachman was recalled from Utica of the AHL and dressed as Nilsson’s backup. … The Avalanche recalled D Andrei Mironov and D David Warsofsky from San Antonio of the AHL to replace Erik Johnson and Anton Lindholm, who suffered upper-body injuries Sunday.UP NEXTAvalanche: At Edmonton on Thursday night.Canucks: At Vegas on Friday night. TAMPA, Fla. — The explosive Tampa Bay Lighting offense hosts a New York Rangers team on Monday that struggles to keep the puck out of the net while away from home.Coming off a 7-1 dismantling of the Colorado Avalanche for a sixth consecutive victory Custom Montreal Canadiens Jerseys , the Lightning lead the league with 122 goals scored, 13 more than anybody else. Tampa Bay has scored five or more goals in a game 12 times through 31 games.The Lightning have seven players with at least 20 points, five players who have reached double-digits in goals and 10 players with six or more goals. And if Tampa Bay didn’t have enough offensive depth, Ondrej Palat is back from a lengthy injury and back on the scoresheet.Article continues below ...Palat missed a month with a foot injury and after five games to get back into game shape, is starting to fit back in with the top line. Palat picked up a pair of goals in the victory against Colorado, his first two of the season.“It feels good. It’s nice to get those first ones,” Palat said.In his first five seasons, Palat has never failed to reach 16 goals in a full season (he scored 11 last season when he was limited to 56 games).“It’s tough to come back from an injury, especially one like that,” Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said of Palat. “He’s had some bad breaks over the years, but at the end of the day when you look at that stats at the end of the year www.officialpredators.com , he finds a way to get it done. He’s really worked extremely hard. Hopefully this will propel him and keep him going.”The Rangers enter the game allowing the 4.14 goals per game on the road, third most in the league. New York has allowed for our more goals in nine of 14 road games on the season, including in Saturday’s shootout victory at Florida.Rangers’ head coach David Quinn is looking for more consistency from his team.“We did a lot of good things. We did things we were hoping to accomplish throughout the week in practice,” Quinn told NHL.com following Saturday’s game. “We built on it, and we didn’t sustain it. Our goal is to build off that first period.”While New York has been boosted by the return of former Lightning first-round pick Vladislav Namestnikov after a three-game absence — he had one of the Rangers’ four goals on Saturday — the addition of Ryan Strome — a former No. 5 overall pick of the New York Islanders — figures to provide more depth for a New York team that continues to hover around the playoff picture.Strome has two goals and five points in 10 games since being acquired from the Edmonton Oilers.“I think the thing is just don’t get complacent,” Strome told the New York Post. “I think in my career, I’ve had some good moments, I’ve had some down moments. I think I’ve learned to stay even-keeled now. So I’m trying to take this in. At the end of the day, we have to win some more hockey games here and there’s always more you can do to help out.”