O.C., California- Staffeln » Thatcher Demko was nervous before

VANCOUVER Andrew Hammond Jersey Womens , British Columbia (AP) — Thatcher Demko was nervous before stepping on the ice.It sure didn’t show.The 23-year-old goalie made 36 saves in his second NHL game, leading the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night.“An opportunity for me,” Demko said. “I’m just really excited and wanted to make the most of it.”Alex Edler, Sven Baertschi, Brock Boeser and Loui Eriksson scored for Vancouver. Bo Horvat had two assists.Buffalo got goals from Evan Rodrigues, Kyle Okposo and Sam Reinhart. Linus Ullmark stopped 19 shots.“For a large majority of the game we played the way we wanted to, but those mistakes we’re making are just a little too big,” Reinhart said. “I’m sure we can correct and we are going to.”Demko, who made one appearance for the Canucks last season, was called up Jan. 4 from the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League after Vancouver traded backup goalie Anders Nilsson to Ottawa.“I’ve been working hard and just patiently waiting for that first chance,” Demko said.He was tested early and often Friday J.T. Brown Jersey Womens , and his performance had the crowd chanting “Dem-Ko! Dem-Ko!” in appreciation of some highlight-reel saves.“He was great. Good to see. He was one of our best players tonight,” Vancouver coach Travis Green said.Rodrigues beat the young goaltender 8:48 in after Rasmus Ristolainen got a pass to the left wing down low and Rodrigues chipped it up over Demko’s pad.Vancouver had yet to register a single shot.Edler got the Canucks on the board 3½ minutes later with a massive slap shot from the blue line. The speeding puck squeezed through traffic and past Ullmark down low.Vancouver went up by one at 15:31 of the first after defenseman Derrick Pouliot sliced a pass through the Buffalo crease to Baertschi, who collected it on his tape and popped the puck into a wide-open net.The Swiss left wing sustained a concussion in October that kept him out of the lineup for 30 games. He has six points since he returned late last month.Early in the second, Pouliot and fellow defenseman Erik Gudbranson got caught behind the Vancouver net, leaving Okposo wide open at the hash marks. The right wing got the puck and flipped a backhand past Demko to even the score.Vancouver pulled ahead once again eight minutes into the period.Horvat stripped Buffalo’s Lawrence Pilut of the puck and made a beautiful pass to Boeser in front of the Sabres net. The right wing tipped it in for his 16th goal of the season.“Me shooting the puck hasn’t been working so I thought I’d give it to somebody who’s going to put it in the net,” Horvat said.Horvat doesn’t have a goal since Dec. 20, but his assist was his 200th career point.“Never when you’re playing in the NHL do you think you’ll be able to hit these kind of milestones,” he said. “It’s really exciting and it feels even better to get that win.”The lead didn’t last long. Almost three minutes later, Conor Sheary made a quick pass to Reinhart in front of the Vancouver crease and he put in a no-look backhand up high.“Probably half our team didn’t play their best hockey game. And when you can not play your best and win, that’s a real bonus in the NHL,” Green said.“Our goalie gave us a good period in the third period. And we found a way to win a hockey game.”Nearly six minutes into the third Tomas Plekanec Jersey Womens , Canucks left wing Josh Leivo dug out the puck from behind the Buffalo net and dished it to Eriksson. He put a one-timer past Ullmark for his fourth point in three games.The Sabres had opportunities to tie it again on a power play late in the third. Ullmark was pulled with 87 seconds left, but Demko held strong.“Responsibility without the puck, that was the difference. But I can’t complain, we had a heck of a game,” Buffalo coach Phil Housley said.The Canucks registered just four shots in the opening period. Demko kept them in a game that got off to an “ugly” start, according to Horvat.“That’s unbelievable. Especially at a young age, coming in. These are meaningful games and he stepped up like great players do and he played phenomenal tonight,” Horvat said. “We owe him a lot of credit.”NOTES: Vancouver’s Nikolay Goldobin was a healthy scratch for the second game in a row. … The defeat ended a three-game swing through Canada for the Sabres, who lost 7-2 in Edmonton on Monday and beat Calgary 3-2 in overtime on Wednesday.UP NEXTSabres: Off until after the All-Star break.Canucks: Host the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday. FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Stars acquired Andrew Cogliano from the Anaheim Ducks on Monday for Devin Shore in a swap of low-scoring veteran forwards on two frustrated teams.The 31-year-old Cogliano has just three goals and eight assists in 46 games this season after scoring just his second goal in three months Sunday night in the Ducks’ overtime loss at Winnipeg. The loss was Anaheim’s 11th consecutive defeat, extending the longest skid in franchise history.Ducks general manager Bob Murray thanked Cogliano for 7 1/2 years of steady play Tomas Tatar Jersey Womens , but acknowledged his offensive limitations were a problem. Anaheim is 30th among the NHL’s 31 teams with just 109 goals this season.“We’re trying to get younger, obviously, but we’re also looking for some people with a little more creativity, because we’re not scoring enough goals,” Murray said in a phone interview. “Not fair to single Cogs. It’s not because of him. This is just something that came available. We’re trying to get better, because we’re not good enough.”Murray issued a statement Sunday night saying he isn’t currently planning to fire coach Randy Carlyle. But Murray also criticized his players for their insufficient efforts during the Ducks’ monthlong losing skid — and the next morning he traded away one of his most experienced leaders.Cogliano is a tremendously durable 12-year veteran who ranks among the NHL leaders with 19 short-handed goals since entering the NHL in 2007-08. But his offensive contributions have all but vanished this season — his goal in Winnipeg was just his second in three months — despite his strong all-around game.“We’ve got to get better,” Murray said. “Some of our mid-20s guys that I thought would be taking leadership and standing up, it’s time to … when you’re losing, it’s time for people to stand up and be counted. I’m kind of waiting, and the waiting is kind of, enough is enough. I’m a bit surprised. I thought some people would be farther along in this sort of vein where they have the experience Tom Kuhnhackl Jersey Womens , and they’ve been around long enough, and they know how to do it when the going gets tough, and it is very tough right now.”Murray didn’t name names, but Anaheim’s mid-20s underachievers this season could include Rickard Rakell, a former All-Star with just six goals in 33 games this season; Hampus Lindholm, the sturdy defenseman with a minus-4 rating and 17 points; and defenseman Cam Fowler, who has 10 points in 23 games while recovering from broken bones in his face.Cogliano has missed just two of 914 games in his career. His streak of 830 consecutive games played to start his NHL career ended in January 2018 when he was given a much-criticized two-game suspension for a debatable hit on Los Angeles’ Adrian Kempe, ending the fourth-longest consecutive games streak in NHL history.Cogliano has 379 career points, with 160 goals and 219 assists. He has excelled as a penalty-killer and forechecker throughout his career, and he was a key part of five consecutive Pacific Division champion teams in Anaheim.“We just thought it was an opportunity for us to get better in a position we want to get better at,” Stars general manager Jim Nill said. “We want to play a faster-paced game. And I think Andrew Cogliano’s one of the best at that in the league.”The 24-year-old Shore has five goals and 12 assists in 42 games this season. He has 82 points in 209 games over parts of four seasons with the Stars.Dallas drafted Shore in 2012 Anthony Beauvillier Jersey Womens , and he grew into an NHL regular while playing multiple roles with the Stars, from shutdown defender to top-line forward. He has just one assist in his last 15 games, and he was on an eight-game scoreless streak before the trade.“This became available, and this is who we were trying to get,” Murray said.The Stars have been through their own internal drama in recent weeks, with CEO Jim Lites publicly criticizing high-scoring forwards Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn late last month.