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MONTREAL (AP) Antti Niemi and Charlie Lindgren are giving the Montreal Canadiens solid goaltending with starter Carey Price out with a concussion.Niemi made 27 saves http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/todd-gurley-ii-jersey , three on short-handed breakaways in the first period, in Montreal’s 3-1 victory over the New York Islanders on Wednesday night. That followed AHL call-up Charlie Lindgren’s 33-save effort in a 1-0 shootout loss to Philadelphia on Monday night.”I felt overall really good in practice and games for the last little while now and I’ll try to keep it going,” Niemi said.He’s 4-1-1 in his last six starts.Price, a Vezina and Hart trophy winner and 2014 Olympic gold medalist, has been out since taking a shot on the mask in a 3-2 overtime loss in Philadelphia on Feb. 20. Niemi and Lindgren have gone 2-0-2 in his absence, allowing only six goals between them.Canadiens coach Claude Julien said Price will not accompany the team for the rematch in New York on Friday night.Paul Bryon, Jonathan Drouin and Nikita Scherbak scored to help the Canadiens extend their points streak to five games (2-0-3).Mathew Barzal scored his 18th of the season for the Islanders. They are winless in last four games and 4-8-2 in their last 14.It was wide open in the first period Authentic Cooper Kupp Jersey , with the teams trading chances and each coming up with a goal. The highlight was the Islanders getting three breakaways while killing a penalty, although they failed to score on them.Barzal took a pass at the Montreal blue line, blew past rookie defenseman Noah Juulsen and beat Niemi with a deke to the backhand at 3:50. Bryan tied it with 8:58 left in the period, beating Jaroslav Halak to the top corner off an assist from Drouin.Drouin gave the Canadiens the lead on a power play at 8:29 of the second. He moved into the left circle to take a feed from Jeff Petry and put a shot inside the far post.”I need to be better for the guys right now,” Halak said. ”We need every point. That second goal shouldn’t go in. We had some chances on our side, we just didn’t hit the net or they blocked shots. We need to find a way. It starts with me.”Scherbak scored with 6:23 to go in the period.NOTES: Newly acquired defenseman Mike Reilly made his Canadiens debut. … The Islanders used their two trade deadline acquisitions – defenseman Brandon Davidson and forward Chris Wagner.UP NEXT:The teams meet again Friday night in Brooklyn. WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) One minute Dmitry Kulikov was feeling fine Cooper Kupp Jersey Elite , the next moment he wasn’t.And now the Winnipeg Jets‘ defenseman will undergo back surgery and miss at least eight weeks.Jets coach Paul Maurice said it was the same injury Kulikov suffered last season while with the Buffalo Sabres.Kulikov was hurt while taking a shot during Winnipeg’s 3-2 victory over New Jersey on March 8. After the inflammation went down, it was decided the nine-year veteran’s best option was to fix the problem through surgery.”It’s tough for him,” Maurice said. ”Maybe it helped that it just happened so he didn’t have to deal with it for three weeks and agonize whether he should be playing or not.”He felt good. He took a shot and then all of a sudden he didn’t feel good. Very difficult for him in that he’s been through it (before).”Winnipeg picked up the unrestricted free agent last July 1, signing the Russian to a three-year contract. He’d played seven seasons with Florida, but only 47 games with Buffalo after hurting his back when he was hit into an open door during a preseason game.Kulikov has been a steady force with the Jets, totaling three goals and eight assists in 62 games.Maurice said an update on the 27-year-old will come in eight weeks during the NHL playoffs.”Hopefully, we’re still playing hockey when he’s ready to play http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/cooper-kupp-jersey ,” Maurice said.The injury-plagued Jets, who began the day second in the Central Division, did have something good to report on a trio of players.Defenseman Toby Enstrom and center Mark Scheifele and Adam Lowry could all return when Winnipeg hosts Dallas on Sunday. All three were full participants in practice Saturday and it’s a matter of seeing how they feel Sunday morning, Maurice said.Scheifele took a blindside hit from defenseman Tyler Myers during a 5-on-5 drill.”(Myers) was doing a great job at making sure I’m feeling good,” Scheifele said with a wry smile.Scheifele has missed five straight games after a ”fluky collision” with teammate Blake Wheeler in a March 6 game against the New York Rangers. He confirmed it wasn’t the same upper-body injury that kept him out for 16 games earlier this season.Lowry has missed 19 games with an upper-body injury, while Enstrom has been out four games after blocking a shot in practice.