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ANAHEIM New York Islanders T-Shirts Authentic , Calif. (AP) The Anaheim Ducks‘ penalty kill has been able to keep opponents in check.They can score goals as well as they can prevent them, a knack they showed against the Columbus Blue Jackets to bolster Anaheim’s playoff chances.Andrew Cogliano and Josh Manson scored 1:27 apart in the second period and the Ducks defeated the Blue Jackets 4-2 on Friday night.Cogliano put Anaheim in front 2-1 at 11:17 with his 15th short-handed goal for the Ducks, one shy of tying Paul Kariya’s team record. Artemi Panarin couldn’t collect a pass by Pierre-Luc Dubois from the neutral zone back into the Columbus end while under pressure from Cogliano, giving the Anaheim forward a breakaway. He beat Sergei Bobrovsky between his legs.It was the Ducks’ ninth short-handed goal this season. Anaheim is tied with Florida and Buffalo for the NHL lead.Manson scored shortly after leaving the penalty box, making it 3-1 at 12:44. Collecting Francois Beauchemin’s clearance at the Columbus blue line, Manson scored on the breakaway with a backhand by faking Bobrovsky into doing the splits.”It’s like what you dream about when you’re in the penalty box,” said Manson, who scored his fifth goal.The Ducks have killed off 29 of 30 penalties in their last 10 games, the best mark in the NHL since Feb. 9. That includes 20 straight kills, and they kept the Blue Jackets scoreless on their two power-play chances.”It’s getting to the time of the season where you can’t make many mistakes and you need to be good. You need to be good every night, so I think we’re all holding ourselves to a little bit higher standard and putting a little pressure on ourselves `cause we want to have a good run here,” Ducks goalie John Gibson said.Gibson made 34 saves after missing three games with a lower-body injury. Rickard Rakell and Cam Fowler each had a goal and an assist for the Ducks New York Islanders Hoodies Authentic , who are 5-1-1 in their last seven games.Sonny Milano and Zach Werenski scored for the Blue Jackets, who have lost three in a row on the road. Bobrovsky stopped 31 shots.Anaheim holds the second wild card in the Western Conference and is one point behind Los Angeles for third place in the Pacific Division.Columbus is tied with Carolina for the second wild card in the East and is seven points behind Pittsburgh for third in the Metropolitan Division.Milano scored first for the Blue Jackets at 12:28 of the first period, but Rakell tied it 1:38 later with a backhand for his fourth goal in two games.Fowler gave the Ducks a 4-1 lead at 16:05 of the third, and Werenski scored at 17:43 to make it 4-2.Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella couldn’t explain the brief breakdown on the power play in the second. Special-teams issues have been a recurring trend for Columbus, which gave up decisive power-play and short-handed goals in its loss at the Los Angeles Kings to open a three-game California road trip.”We played good enough to lose, and in that little section of the game, that minute or so in the game . I thought we were playing really well to that point. Yeah, I don’t know what else to tell you. That changes games,” Tortorella said.NOTES: Ducks C Ryan Getzlaf missed the game with the flu. … Blue Jackets C Alexander Wennberg did not play because of an upper-body injury. … Chris Kelly had one shot and played 9:27 in his Anaheim debut. Kelly signed with the Ducks as a free agent Monday after helping Canada win the bronze medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics. … Panarin’s point streak ended at six games.UP NEXTBlue Jackets: Visit the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.Ducks: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday.— GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Nashville Predators keep rolling toward the best regular season in franchise history.Kevin Fiala and Kyle Turris each had a goal and assist in the third period, leading Nashville to a 3-2 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday night. Ryan Ellis also scored to help the Western Conference-leading Predators get their 21st road win of the season and improve to 12-0-1 in their last 13 games overall. Pekka Rinne finished with 32 saves.Nashville, which reached the Stanley Cup Final a year ago after earning the second wild card in the West New York Islanders Hats Authentic , has 102 points through 70 games, and needs nine more in its final 12 games to set a new franchise record.”We’re confident in our abilities. We just stick with it, we don’t panic,” Turris said. ”We find ways. We know what we’re capable of when we’re playing to the level that we want to play, we just have to play like that for a full game.”The Predators weren’t overlooking the last-place Coyotes, given that Arizona was 11-3-2 in its last 16 games.”We needed a little bit of a push there in the third period to win the game,” forward Austin Watson said.Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Christian Dvorak scored for Arizona, and Darcy Kuemper – out on Tuesday due to an illness – stopped 26 shots.Fiala scored the go-ahead goal at 4:31 of the third, his 23rd of the season, after Turris won a draw and quickly centered to Fiala. Turris had earlier tied the score at 2 when he took a pass from Fiala from behind the net and put the puck past Kuemper 22 seconds into the period.Turris lost on a goal on a replay challenge for offside in the first period.”Just trying to do the right things, create opportunities. When you get enough chances, eventually they’re going to go in Custom New York Islanders Jerseys ,” Turris said.The Coyotes welcomed back head coach Rick Tocchet, who left the team Monday on a leave of absence to be with family. Tocchet’s mother died Wednesday at age 93. He rejoined the team in time for a morning skate on Thursday.Ekman-Larsson gave the Coyotes a 2-1 lead at 16:28 of the second period, seconds after an Arizona power play had expired. It was his 11th of the season, and Clayton Keller got an assist for his team-leading 51st point.Dvorak’s 15th goal – fifth this month – came at 4:09 of the second. His first shot was blocked, but he continued forward, got the rebound and slotted the puck past Rinne for a 1-0 Coyotes lead. Dvorak set a new career high in points in a season with 34.The Predators answered moments later. Craig Smith delivered a pinpoint centering pass to Ellis, who needed only guide the puck past Kuemper at 5:49. Ellis picked up his seventh goal of the season, Smith his 20th assist.Turris scored off a rebound at 3:40 of the first period, but the Coyotes challenged for offside and the goal was overturned.”I would have liked to see a couple better defensive zone decisions, but it’s a game of mistakes. We pushed them and that is why they are a great team, because they win those types of games,” Tocchet said.The only other noteworthy event of a scoreless first period came when Ekman-Larsson www.officialhockeyrangersshop.com , after a scuffle along the boards with a Predators player, took an inadvertent elbow to his face from a referee skating past him. Ekman-Larsson was handed a two-minute penalty for cross-checking, adding insult to injury.The Coyotes gave themselves a chance with their penalty-kill unit keeping the Predators from adding to their lead despite a 5-on-3, but could not equalize against Rinne.”The guys know that they’re chasing points right now. Everything we talk about is to try and improve our position for the playoffs and home ice,” Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said.NOTES: Tocchet was asked before the game how he is holding up after his mother’s passing. He said watching the Coyotes beat the Los Angeles Kings in the overtime shootout Tuesday helped him cope for a time. ”My mom had a good run. So, big hockey fan,” he said. ”It was tough, but temporary relief there when I was watching the team play against L.A. and how well they played. It was a nice feeling with the family.” … No. 1 goalie Antti Raanta (lower-body injury) isn’t quite ready to return but is getting closer, as is C Zac Rinaldo from injury, Tocchet said. … Predators C Calle Jarnkrok will miss the rest of the season with an upper-body injury suffered in Tuesday’s win over Winnipeg, the team announced on its website. Jarnkrok had 35 points in 68 games. … C Ryan Johansen skated in his 500th career game. … A cheer rose from the crowd when the final score of the Arizona-Buffalo NCAA tournament game was announced. The greater Phoenix area is home to Arizona rival Arizona State University.UP NEXTPredators: At Colorado on Friday night.Coyotes: Host Minnesota on Saturday.