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It was an NHL-mandated break. It was Christmas Womens Charlie McAvoy Jersey , for goodness sakes, and the Pittsburgh Penguins got an extra day with no game Sunday, giving them four full off days.While none of the Penguins were complaining about the down time, they will need to ensure that it does not serve as a momentum-killer.Pittsburgh (18-12-6) enters Thursday’s home game against the Detroit Red Wings (15-17-6) on an 8-2-1 roll.Article continues below ...“I think there’s significance to winning a few in a row here, but also gaining points along the way in a lot of games,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan said in the wake of a 3-0 victory Saturday at Carolina, the Penguins’ third straight win.“As I told the guys in the (locker) room, our guys deserve a lot of credit for how hard they’ve played and how focused they’ve been through this stretch. They’ve played a lot of hockey in a short stretch Danton Heinen Jersey Kids , and they continued to play hard night in and night out.”Pittsburgh’s recent stretch has boosted it into third place in the Metropolitan Division — back in a playoff spot — after the team fell to the depths of the Eastern Conference during a dismal November.“These past three games we’ve played were pretty tight hockey games. You could tell our mentality was right where it needs to be,” said Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, who has led the charge with 10 goals and 17 assists over the past 20 games.“We can build off this when we get back.”The Penguins also have also gotten their best stretch of goaltending lately, although questions remain about how they will deploy Matt Murray, who has won two Stanley Cups, and Casey DeSmith. The two have been used in a straight-up rotation recently, with Murray turning in a 39-save shutout against Carolina.While the Penguins have had a December to remember, the Red Wings are hoping to ditch a malaise after the holidays.Detroit gave Toronto a strong game Sunday http://www.officialbruinsproonline.com/authentic-adidas-david-krejci-jersey , losing 5-4 in overtime, but that can’t hide a 4-6-3 record in December that has dropped the Red Wings to 12th in the Eastern Conference.“We feel that when we’re on our game, we can play with anybody. We’ve shown that over the course of the year,” Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall said, most likely referring to an 8-4-1 record in November.“But you have to do it every night, not just when you play some teams. The level of urgency and compete have to be there every night.”The Red Wings and Penguins had a nice little rivalry going in the late 2000s, splitting two meetings in the Stanley Cup final and staging some high-intensity regular-season games.It would help if Detroit can capture that level against Pittsburgh, as with the game at Toronto.“Sometimes it’s a good reminder of the type of game it takes to be successful Authentic David Pastrnak Jersey ,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “That was a great reminder. We are going on the road … and play a couple of real good teams (in Pittsburgh and Dallas). We are going to have to play this same style.” NEW YORK (AP) Matthew Tkachuk leaped into the air and hugged Travis Hamonic after scoring the tiebreaking goal late in the third period.Tkachuk’s second in less than 9 1/2 minutes came with 1:05 left and lifted the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Sunday night.”It’s always fun to put the puck in the net, especially tonight,” said Tkachuk, who scored his 19th and 20th goals of the season in the win. ”I was obviously so pumped to get the third goal there. I was just really happy because you think (after that) basically you play good defense and you get the win. That’s why you’re really excited.”Mark Jankowski also scored as the Flames pulled into a tie with Minnesota for the second wild card in the Western Conference. Mike Smith made 23 saves before leaving due to an injury with 2 seconds remaining, and David Rittich came on to close the game.Hamonic had an assist on Tkachuk’s late goal in in his first game back in Brooklyn since the Islanders dealt him to Calgary in the offseason. The defenseman, who had 26 goals and 120 assists in 444 games over seven seasons in New York, received a standing ovation from the crowd during a video tribute in the first period and was visibly emotional when discussing his time with the Islanders after Calgary’s morning skate.Hamonic called the whole day emotional and was pleased that the day ended with his team leaving New York with two important points in the standings.”Take everything else out, what was happening Jake DeBrusk Jersey , it was a hockey game,” Hamonic said. ”When you’re playing against the East, not that it’s free points by any means, but you have a chance to get two points and gain some ground on someone back in your division.”I thought I was a little nervous in the first period and settled in afterward. I guess that’s to be expected.”Calgary head coach Glen Gulutzan didn’t have an update on Smith after the game, but said it looked like the goalie just tweaked something in his lower body.”It’s tough, you never want to see it, but we’ll deal with it when we know exactly what we’re dealing with,” Gulutzan said.Casey Cizikas and Anthony Beauvillier scored for the Islanders Womens Patrice Bergeron Jersey , while Jaroslav Halak finished with 39 saves. It was the 17th time in the Islanders’ last 23 games that they have surrendered 37 or more shots on goal.Trailing 2-0, the Flames cut the deficit in half on Jankowski’s power-play goal with 9 1/2 minutes left in the middle period. Tkachuk then tied it at 9:38 of the third.”We had a pretty good first,” Islanders head coach Doug Weight said. ”We were intense to start. Then we started making bad decisions and turning pucks over.”Cizikas put the Islanders on the board early in the first period thanks to an extraordinary individual effort. The forward picked off the puck along the sideboards and then scored through Smiths legs while falling forward.Beauvillier put New York up by two at 2:59 of the second period when a seemingly harmless shot from the high slot sneaked by Smith.NOTES: Flames F Troy Brouwer missed his second consecutive game with an upper-body injury. … F Marek Hrivik and D Matt Bartkowski were scratched by Calgary. … The Flames improved their road record 16-6-5 this season and are now 11-8-3 against Eastern Conference opponents. Calgary has won three of four on a six-game road trip, with stops in Boston and Nashville still to come. … The Islanders scratched F Alan Quine, F Tanner Fritz and D Dennis Seidenberg. … The Flames acquired Hamonic on the second day of the NHL draft in a trade that sent Calgary’s first and second round picks in 2018 to the Islanders along with a second round pick in 2019 or 2020. … Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of the Islanders’ brawl against the Pittsburgh Penguins, which saw 65 penalties assessed for a total of 346 penalty minutes. … The Islanders fell to 28-5-7 against Western Conference opponents in three seasons at Barclays Center. … New York also dropped to 17-4-1 when scoring first this season, and 18-1-1 when leading after two periods.UP NEXTFlames: At Boston on Tuesday night.Islanders: Host Columbus on Tuesday night.