NEWARK, N. [url=https://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Preston-Smith-Jersey/]Pr eston Smith Super Bowl Jersey[/url] .J. -- T

NEWARK, N. Preston Smith Super Bowl Jersey .J. -- Theres a little more to the New York Islanders than John Tavares. In a season opener where the Islanders star didnt do much, his teammates picked him up. Linemate Matt Moulson scored the only goal of the shootout in the sixth round, Evgeni Nabokov made 26 saves and Michael Grabner had two goals and an assist in the Islanders season-opening 4-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Friday night. "We had some mistakes, but we had some really good stuff in there," Grabner said after the Islanders won a season opener for the first time since 2007. "Its the first game and we got the win. Now we have to go back to work tomorrow." Nabokov stopped all six shootout attempts and Martin Brodeur was just as good until Moulson beat him under the crossbar. Moulson quipped that he told coach Jack Capuano that he should have shot earlier in the shootout. "The puck kind of hopped up and luckily I chipped it up," Moulson said. Brodeur, whose father, Denis, died last week, had 23 saves in his first game of the season. Cory Schneider was in goal in the Devils 3-0 loss in Pittsburgh on Thursday. "He waited me out, so I got deep a bit, and he got it up quick," Brodeur said of Moulson, whose linemates Tavares and Kyle Okposo failed to register a point. Grabner, who was stopped on two breakaways in the game, didnt take a shot in the shootout. He deadpanned that his turn would have been after Nabokov. "Honest Im not too mad about it, we have some good skill guys out there," Grabner said. Frans Nielsen had the Islanders other goal. Recently signed free agent Damien Brunner scored twice for the Devils, while fellow newcomer Michael Ryder had the other. Josh Bailey almost won the shootout in the fourth round, but his shot hit off the post. Brunner tied the game at 3-all at 7:34 of the third period with his second goal of the game. It came shortly after a Devils power play expired. Defenceman Anton Volchenkov came off the bench and shot the puck toward the net. It deflected to Brunner and he slid it into an open net. The Islanders took their first lead of the game early in the third period when Nielsen worked a give and go with Grabner and lifted a backhand between Brodeurs pads as the goaltender tried to poke check the puck off his stick. Both teams had scoring chances after Brunner tied the game at 3-all. Kyle Okposo of the Islanders hit the post about a minute after Brunners second goal and Brodeur came up with close-in stops on Grabner and Pierre-Marc Bouchard on breakaways. Nabokov stopped a short-handed shot by Stephen Gionta and a close-in attempt by Steve Bernier. The Devils twice took the lead in their home opener and Grabner responded for the Islanders each time. Grabners second of the game came on a shot from the right circle that beat Brodeur on the short side at 13:43 of the middle period. Bailey had forced a turnover at centre ice and made a pass that sent the speedy right wing into the Devils zone. "It was great plays by my linemates finding me," Grabner said. "I was trying to get to open ice and they made some great plays where I could use my speed and capitalize on my chances." Ryder, who is wearing the No. 17 jersey that Ilya Kovalchuk had before returning to Russia after last season, rekindled memories of the Russian superstar by snapping a shot past Nabokov a little less than five minutes into the second period. It was his first goal with the Devils. Brunner, who had a team-high eight shots in Pittsburgh, gave the Devils the lead 2:59 after the opening faceoff. Nabokov couldnt control a shot by Dainius Zubrus from the slot and Brunner tapped the loose puck into an open net for his first goal as a Devil. Grabner, who was stopped on an early breakaway by Brodeur before the Brunner goal, didnt miss his second one-on-one. He took a pass from defenceman Travis Hamonic in stride and slid the puck under Brodeur to tie the game at 8:07. NOTES: Josh Harris and David Blitzer, who head the group that bought the Devils this summer, dropped pucks at the ceremonial opening faceoff. ...This was the first of five regular-season games between teams. Islanders won last years season series 3-2. ...Brock Nelson, the Islanders first-round draft pick in 2010, made his NHL regular-season debut. He appeared in a playoff game last year. ... Other than Brodeur in goal, the Devils used the same lineup they did in Pittsburgh on Thursday. Ray Nitschke Super Bowl Jersey . The San Antonio Spurs handled the conditions, and the team, and it sure helped when a suffering LeBron James couldnt make it to the finish. Marquez Valdes-Scantling Super Bowl Jersey .Y. -- Sore nose and all, Sidney Crosby had a goal and three assists to help Pittsburgh beat Buffalo 5-3 on Friday night, snapping the Penguins mini-slump and slowing the Sabres late-season surge. https://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Za-Darius-Smith-Jersey/ . Not bad for a defenceman. The goal, that is. Although the shuffling dance steps werent bad, either. Barrie scored 55 seconds into overtime, Semyon Varlamov stopped 29 shots, and the Avalanche moved a step closer to their first playoff berth in four years with a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night. STUTTGART, Germany -- Top-seeded Tommy Haas beat Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-0, 3-6, 6-4 to join two other Germans in the Mercedes Cup quarterfinals on Thursday. The 35-year-old Haas is the oldest player in the top 100 and is looking for his second title of the year. Haas won another tournament in Germany, in Munich, also on clay. Haas cruised through the first set, but Gulbis bounced back in the second. In the decider, Haas broke serve to win the match as Gulbis slammed a forehand into the net. "There are days like that, I could feel that he couldnt find his rhythm in the first set but I was also struggling. This was my first match after Wimbledon, switching from grass to clay," Haas said. "In the second, he got some first serves in and they are ddifficult to return. Tramon Williams Super Bowl Jersey. But I also served well at the end." Haas will next play fifth-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy, who overwhelmed Leonardo Mayer of Argentina 6-1, 6-3. Fourth-seeded Benoit Paire of France also won his second-round match by beating Nikolay Davydenko of Russia 6-3, 6-1. Paires quarterfinal opponent will be Victor Hanescu of Romania, who beat Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil 6-1, 6-4. Hanescu levelled his record against Bellucci to 1-1. Paire advanced to the quarterfinals in Stuttgart for the first time, having twice lost in the second round previously. In other quarterfinals, Michael Berrer of Germany faces Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain, while second-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany meets Gael Monfils of France. ' ' '