WINNIPEG - Cam Ward grinned as he described how he felt like a kid making some key saves in his Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday. Adidas NMD R1 China . Ward stole a pair of goals from Winnipeg centre Bryan Little in the first period, beginning with a pad save during a Jets two-man advantage and then displaying his quickness with a highlight-reel stick stop. Little was about to fire the puck into a wide-open side of the net, but Ward whipped out his stick and the puck hit the paddle. "It was a fun save," Ward said with a chuckle after making 34 stops. "The initial shot was in a position where I knew I was going to have to kick out a bit of a rebound. Just out of pure desperation, I threw my stick out there and made a save that brings you back to the ol street hockey days as a kid. "But Little, I think he got even with me scoring that second goal in the third period so it all evens out." Jets head coach Paul Maurice, who coached the Hurricanes for parts of 11 seasons, even tipped his hat to Ward. "Cam Ward was the story of this hockey game," Maurice said. "He was the best player on the ice." The Jets had mounted a 9-0 advantage in shots on goal on the way to a 13-6 gap at the end of a scoreless first period. Ward then got some offensive help from his teammates, as brothers Eric and Jordan Staal and Riley Nash each scored within a span of two minutes and 53 seconds in the second. Defenceman Andrej Sekera had a pair of assists for the Hurricanes (31-31-9) to give him 31 on the season to go with 11 goals. Jets centre Jim Slater had scored his first goal of an injury-marred season 7:48 into the second, but Eric Staal got the roll going 37 seconds later with his 17th goal of the season. Little scored his 21st goal of the season for Winnipeg (32-31-9) 1:27 into the third period. Al Montoya stopped 29 shots while making his fourth straight start in net for Winnipeg since Ondrej Pavelec went out with a lower-body injury. Hes expected to return to action next week. Montoya was pointing the finger at himself for the loss. "We came out firing. Their goaltender played well," Montoya said. "I didnt make the saves I needed to make and at the end of the day that cost us the game." Maurice said Montoya was wrong. "If a guy is clearly the reason youre in the hole, Ill get him out of the net before that happens," Maurice said. "They get to this level thinking they should stop everything. He will feel that because hes got a front-row seat to the way the guy at the other end is playing so its magnified." Carolina head coach Kirk Muller said Wards stellar play was inspiring for his teammates. "The guys knew that he was giving a great effort and he was keeping us in there," Muller said. "They were like, Hey, weve got to surround him with some better play here and, fortunately, we got timely goals. We played better the rest of the game and it was a nice team effort for everybody." Ward has battled through two injuries this season and was bumped to backup for Anton Khudobin, who was in net for Carolinas 3-2 loss to Chicago Friday night. Carolina returns home for a game Tuesday against the New York Islanders. Winnipeg, which heads out on a five-game road trip beginning Monday in Dallas, remains at 73 points. Heading into the game, the Jets were six points back of the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference. The Jets were coming off a 5-4 overtime win against Colorado on March 19. The loss to Carolina was Winnipegs 40th one-goal game this season and they are 18-13-9 in those outings. Jordan Staal made it 2-1 when he went through Jets defenders and scored over Montoyas blocker at 10:10 of the second while Slater was in the penalty box for tripping. Maurice said Winnipegs first period was "about as good as were going to play," but Staals power-play marker hurt. "No doubt we got tight at 2-1," he said. "You could feel it." The Jets, who were outshot 21-8 in the second, were working without defenceman Zach Bogosian, who left the game in the period with an upper-body injury that Maurice said isnt too serious. It appeared Stuart tied it up six minutes after Littles goal, but the goal was waved off for goaltender interference as Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien fell on top of Ward in the crease and was lying on his right arm. Winnipeg pulled Montoya with about 65 seconds left in the game and swarmed Ward, but the veteran held tough. The Jets outshot the Hurricanes 15-5 in the third. Notes: Jordan Staals power-play goal was the first the Jets have allowed at home in five consecutive games. Winnipegs penalty kill was ranked fifth-best (84.8 per cent) in the NHL heading into the game … Both the Jets and Hurricanes are 2-3-0 in their last five games … The game was the second one of Carolinas 18th set of back-to-back games this season. It plays two more. Only Jersey has more back-to-back sets this season with 22. The Hurricanes so far are 9-8-1 in the first game of their sets and 5-10-3 in the second game. Adidas NMD Womens Cheap . - The Pittsburgh Pirates plan on keeping promising left fielder Starling Marte playing alongside National League MVP Andrew McCutchen for years to come. Adidas NMD Factory Outlet . The CFL unveiled its 2014 schedule Wednesday and the Redblacks will play their first-ever regular-season game in Winnipeg against the Blue Bombers on July 3. http://www.cheapnmdonline.com/wholesale-adidas-nmd-r2-china.html . "If we only consider this season," Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini said, "there is just one club in Manchester -- and its ours.HARRISON, N.J. - James Rodriguez scored in the 75th minute as Colombia beat Canada 1-0 in an international soccer friendly Tuesday.Despite a valiant effort for 90 minutes, Canada found that Colombia and World Cup stars Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao were too much to handle.The Colombians brought pressure in the first half, but Benito Floros Canadian squad held well from the back line, got world-class goalkeeping from Milan Borjan, and even pushed forward, earning a few set pieces.Florio was happy with the defensive effort but still felt unfulfilled by his sides performance.We played mostly defensively today, not the way we would have liked, he said through a translator following the match. We wanted to play a little bit more offensive, but we actually played with them, that was good for us.Canadas best chance, however, may have been negated by a non-call on Alexander Mejia, who appeared to take down forward Tosaint Ricketts.Ricketts received an excellent through ball from Issey Nakajima-Farran, but the call wouldnt go the way of Ricketts. Colombia toyed with the Canadian defence, but put nothing through for more than an hour.Colombia finally scored when a quick restart off a free kick in the 75th minute, it was one touch to Rodriguez from Juan Quintero, and he needed only one touch before driving a bending ball from 25 yards out to beat Borjan. Canada had no time to set up a wall, but Floro felt that was out of a lack of preparedness.We discussed this with the players and we told them Colombia were very smart, very quick, and a lot of the set-pieces they work on played the ball quick, said Floro. Our players got distracted and (the goal by Rodriguez) was what happened. Wholesale NMD. After all of the fancy footwork from Colombia failed to beat the Canadians, it took all the might and craft of the worlds best striker to finally knock them down on Colombias fourth shot on target.University of Connecticut standout Cyle Larin had a scoring chance late in the game but was stopped by Colombian keeper Camilo Vargas. An ensuing free kick proved fruitless, and that was it for the Canadians.We had a couple chances, we shouldve scored that chance we have, but at least we got the experience out of it, Larin said. When this game was announced, I was amped, ready to play. James scored a great goal, and you cant take anything away from them.A loss is a loss, but the Canadians came away from the match emboldened.I think, as a team defensively, we played really good, said Borjan, who made three saves in net for Canada. Were still missing the attack, but we played the third-best country in the world, so I think we did very, very good as a team.We had to play well defensively. We have a very young team, inexperience, but we showed tonight that we can play together, and we improved.Larin agreed that the loss could be a learning opportunity for Canada.Theyre a great technical team. Its a process, and we played really well, said Larin. Hopefully in a couple years well be really good and be able to make it to a World Cup.With the loss, Canada dropped to 1-4-4 under Floro since his hiring in July 2013. Their next match will be against Panama in Panama City on Nov. 18.Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version reported that substitute Luca Gasparatto had Canadas lone shot when it was, in fact, Cyle Larin. ' ' '