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DALLAS -- Antti Niemi made 28 saves, but more important than how many he made was when he made them in the Dallas Stars 3-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night. Cheap Orioles Jerseys .It wasnt that he was tested in bunches, Stars coach Lindy Ruff said, but he had to make some huge saves for us. Breakaway saves, there was a couple game-changers.The most important might have been two saves by Niemi in the latter half of the first period while the game was still 0-0.He stopped a breakaway by Alexander Burmistrov and a shot by Mark Scheifele on a 2-on-1.Seconds later, the Stars had a 2-on-1. Curtis McKenzie passed back into the slot to Brett Ritchie, who sent a wrist shot past Michael Hutchinson at 14:37 and Dallas never trailed again.The win salvaged the last game of Dallas 1-1-1 home stand. Winnipeg lost its second straight and fourth in five games.Patrick Eaves and Tyler Seguin also scored for the Stars while Hutchinson had 23 saves.Stars rookie center Devin Shore had two assists.The goals against Niemi came in the closing seconds of the second and third periods. Joel Armia beat him to the puck to score with 5 seconds left in the second, and Scheifele put in a rebound on the power play with 9 seconds to play in the third.Dallas spent most of the first 5 minutes of the second period killing two penalties.The teams skated 4-on-4 for 35 seconds before Eaves scored his 100th career goal from high in the slot at 5:02.Its pretty cool, he said. Ive been fortunate to play with a lot of good players. More importantly, it helped towards a divisional win.Eaves had returned after missing a game with a lower-body injury. He added experience to an injury-riddled Dallas front line weakened even more because Jason Spezza sat out with a lower-body injury.Shore passed from behind the net to set up Eaves goal. Another assist went to center Justin Dowling, in his NHL debut after playing 324 games in the minor leagues. He was recalled from Texas of the AHL to fill in for Spezza.I thought we had a great night out of (Dowlings) line, Ruff said. We got a good night out of the Shore line.Armia brought Winnipeg within 2-1 by taking the puck away from Niemi behind the net to score his first goal on a wraparound. Niemi had stopped two other good chances by Armia earlier in the second.Joel was moving his feet with the puck and when he does that, boy, he creates some things, Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice said.Seguin scored at 7:27 of the third period with a wrist shot from the right faceoff circle.Game notes Dallas had been 1 for 13 on the power play during the 10 previous periods before Eaves goal. Winnipegs challenge that the Stars had interfered with Hutchinson was denied. They push our defenseman right on top of me and its a bang-bang play, Hutchinson said. I dont know why it wasnt goalie interference. ... Winnipegs power play had been 1 for 18 in the last five games before Scheifeles goal. ... After being outscored 11-1 in the second period of their first five games, the Jets dominated the middle period. They outshot Dallas 13-7 and won 12 of 17 faceoffs. ... Armia had scored two goals in Winnipegs last visit to Dallas, a 6-3 win on Feb. 25. ... The Jets have pulled their goalie in the closing minutes in all six games this season.UP NEXTJets: They will host Dallas on Thursday in the back end of two home-and-home games.Stars: Dallas will travel to Winnipeg to face the Jets on Thursday. Fake Orioles Jerseys .ca look back at each of the Top 10 stories of 2013. Today, we look back at Boston Strong - a citys recovery from tragedy. Orioles Jerseys 2019 . There are surprises among the Vezina candidates, but most of the others are standard top-tier performers, even if the two Hart Trophy runners-ups have never been quite as good as they have been through the first half of the season. https://www.cheaporioles.com/ .H. -- Matt Kenseth made it 2 for 2 in the Chase, holding off teammate Kyle Busch to win Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. TORONTO -- It is one thing for the Toronto Maple Leafs to gain the lead, it is quite another for them to hold it.They will try to get it right again on Saturday when they play the Washington Capitals at the Air Canada Centre.The Capitals (13-5-2) will be playing their third game in four nights Saturday, after defeating the Buffalo Sabres 3-1 on Friday at the Verizon Center to complete a five-game homestand with four wins.The Maple Leafs (8-8-4) have not played since Wednesday when they were up to their old tricks at New Jersey.Toronto led 3-0 after the first period and 4-3 after the second before losing 5-4 in a shootout.Weve managed ourselves into losses instead of victories, just by our (inability) to take care of the puck a little bit, Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock said. Weve got a little better, but we have a long way to go. We have to do a better job when were ahead.One positive for the Maple Leafs Friday was that center Auston Matthews, the first player taken in this years draft, scored twice to end a 13-game goalless drought.That could not prevent the Maple Leafs from losing for the fifth time in 20 games this season in which they have taken a lead into the third period.Weve done lots of good things, but weve also identified areas that were not good enough in and its become clear as time has gone on, Babcock said. For a club like us, weve got a long way to go. We understand that totally, but were excited about the work were getting done.They will be facing a formidable opponent in the Capitals left winger Alex Ovechkin, who has 12 goals and five assists.Hes probably the best scorer of this generation of players, said Leafs left winger Matt Martin. To go with that, hee has the size and strength to have an impact on the game. Baltimore Orioles Pro Shop. When hes going, hes very tough to stop. More than anything you try and limit his chances rather than take them all away, hes so dynamic. You have to be physical on him, but hes not one to shy away from it either. Hes a big body, 240 pounds I think and when he hits, it hurts. But we have to be hard on him.Frederik Andersen, who did not play Wednesday when Jhonas Enroth got the starts, will return to the Toronto goal Saturday.The Capitals also have had third-period troubles. They allowed a third-period goal in 11 of their past 12 games. They have allowed teams to tie or threaten in the third period in seven games.The most frustrating part is weve done it a few times this year, said goaltender Braden Holtby, who is the likely starter on Saturday after backup Philipp Grubauer played Friday. And once it happens a few times, its a habit. Its something we need to address and get better at and try and clamp down in third periods.You cant sit back and just defend in this league, Capitals coach Barry Trotz said. So youve just got to keep playing. You see that around the league, teams that get a couple-of-goals lead, you tend to say, Okay, were in good shape, and you stop attacking and playing the right way.After the game on Friday, the Capitals recalled left winger Paul Carey from the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League and he will join the team in Toronto. He has five goals and nine assists in 16 games at Hershey. The 28-year-old has played one game with Washington this season. ' ' '