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The NHL Department of Player Safety has fined Montreal Canadiens defenceman Alexei Emelin $5,000 for butt-ending Vancouver Canucks forward Pascal Pelletier. Joey Gallo Jersey . The incident happened midway through the second period during Montreals 5-2 victory on Thursday night. Emelin was not penalized on the play. It was the first discipline that Emelin has received in his NHL career. He has never been suspended by the league before. Hunter Pence Rangers Jersey . The visitors missed a host of good chances to win the game, and were left to rue substitute Ivo Ilicevics strike against the crossbar in the 86th minute, when he only had the goalkeeper to beat. Colby Lewis Jersey . Walcott is available for Saturdays home match against Southampton as Arsenal looks to extend its two-point lead at the top of the Premier League. The Gunners are currently the second highest scorers in the league but Wenger insists Walcott will add something extra to his team. https://www.cheaprangersbaseball.com/2782h-nick-solak-jersey-rangers.html . Its been two seasons in one for both parties and neither will look back on the first 18 games fondly. "I think I took the fall for a lot of things," said Gay, reflecting on his short time in Toronto ahead of Wednesdays game against his former club.WASHINGTON - Washingtons Nicklas Backstrom and Carolinas Anton Khudobin had a similar opinion of Backstroms winning goal.Luck was involved.Backstrom scored off the rebound of Alex Ovechkins shot at 4:46 of overtime to lift the Capitals to a 4-3 victory over the Hurricanes on Saturday night.Ovechkin skated in and let loose a blast from the right point. Khudobin made the save, but the puck went to Backstrom in the left circle, and he fired in his fourth goal of the season.I think I was just lucky to be in the right spot, to be honest with you. You never know where its coming, Backstrom said.It was a tough ending for Khudobin, who stopped 35 shots while playing in place of Cam Ward on the second night of back-to-back games.I tried to focus on the first shot, he said. The rebound was unlucky, I would say.The assist was the 400th of Ovechkins career.In big games, you want your big players to step up, Capitals coach Barry Trotz said. Thats what those guys do. They like the spotlight, they want to be in it, and they usually come through.The Capitals squandered a 3-1 lead in the third period on goals by Carolinas Eric Staal and Elias Lindholm.Troy Brouwer, Jay Beagle and Eric Fehr also scored for Washington, and John Carlson had two assists.Justin Peters, signed by Washington as a free agent in July after playing in 68 games for the Hurricanes from 2009-14, stopped 24 shots in his first game against Carolina.After losing five straight, the Capitals won on consecutive nights.Riley Nash had a goal and an assist, and Justin Faulk had two assists for Carolina, which had won four straight.Staal pulled Carolina within 3-2 when he converted a pass from Jeff Skinner at 8:38 of the third periodd. Jim Sundberg Jersey. Faulks wrist shot from the left point was deflected by Lindholm and eluded Peters with 6:07 left in regulation.It could have deflated us, Fehr said of Carolinas rally, but we kept going and got a big goal at the end.The Hurricanes trailed 2-1 after one period despite being outshot 18-3. Khudobin made several point-blank saves as the Capitals repeatedly swarmed the Carolina zone.Washington broke through on a power play at 7:26 when Brouwers shot deflected into the air. Carolinas Patrick Dwyer attempted to swat the puck out of danger, but instead sent it past Khudobin.The Capitals made it 2-0 when Beagle fielded Carlsons shot off the back wall and banked the puck in off Khudobin for his first point of the season.It was good to see that the guys kept fighting to get the point, but if we start out like that its hard to fight back, Faulk said. We were fortunate to get to overtime.Carolina made it 2-1 with a power-play goal by Nash, who beat Peters high on a drive from the left circle with 49 seconds left.We didnt put them away, Trotz said. In the first we could have been up more than a goal, thats for sure. We had some great looks, we had a lot of chances and they sort of hung around.Fehr made it 3-1 at 16:48 of the second period.NOTES: Ovechkin ranks second on the Capitals franchise assists list behind Michal Pivonka (418). ... Carolina D Tim Gleason missed his second straight game with an upper-body injury. ... Washington C Brooks Laich sat out and is day to day with an upper-body injury. He had returned to the lineup Friday in Chicago after missing seven games. ... Capitals RW Tom Wilson left the game in the second period with a lower-body injury. ' ' '