NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville Predators are so comfortable at home this season they simply dont bat an eye, even when giving up the tying goal with 36 seconds left in regulation.Craig Smith scored on a breakaway at 2:46 of overtime, and the Predators beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Tuesday night. Roman Josi, Filip Forsberg and Colin Wilson also scored for the Predators, who pushed the NHLs best home record to 19-2-1 and tied the franchise record with their eighth straight home win.We like playing in this building, Smith said. We hold a high standard. Its a lot of fun to win in this building. I dont think anybody in here wants to lose right now.Mike Ribeiro had three assists and Shea Weber two as Nashville improved to 9-1-3 in its last 13 games.Carter Hutton made 21 saves in earning his second straight home win in place of injured All-Star goalie Pekka Rinne. In overtime, Hutton stopped a shot by Zach Redmond. Ribeiro then passed to Smith, who beat Semyon Varlamov on the glove side.He got his head up, made a nice saucer pass to the middle, Smith said.Cody McLeod, Jarome Iginla and Nick Holden scored for Colorado, which entered 10th in the Western Conference but only three points out of the final wild-card spot.Holden forced overtime by scoring his fourth this season with 36 seconds left in regulation from in front over Huttons glove. Varlamov had been pulled for an extra skater.It wasnt what Nashville coach Peter Laviolette wanted, but he liked his teams response.Its great to have a good record at home, and we have got to continue to push, Laviolette said.Varlamov made 35 saves, nearly helping Colorado steal more than a point.You want to get that second point, Colorado forward Alex Tanguay said. We had our chance and they had theirs, and they scored.The Predators sent Forsberg, Weber and Laviolette to All-Star weekend where Forsberg, the only rookie in the game, scored two goals for Team Toews.This was the first of four games in six nights for Nashville, and these teams meet again Friday night in Denver as part of the Predators three-game road trip.Forsberg gave the Predators a 3-2 lead 32 seconds into the third. When the rebound of his own shot squirted over to him, he scored on a wrister that went off Varlamovs glove for his 16th this season. That was the only shot Nashville got past Varlamov in the third as the Colorado goalie made 13 saves.Colorado scored first when McLeod got his stick in front of a Nashville player to tip the puck past Hutton for a 1-0 lead at 11:52 of the first period. With seconds left in the period, Hutton stopped a shot from McLeod with a pad save.Josi tied it for Nashville with a one-timer that beat Varlamov at 3:33 of the second. Colorado centre Nathan MacKinnon just missed off the post at 11:22 of the second, then the Predators got the man advantage when John Mitchell was caught high-sticking James Neal. Wilson scored on a slap shot at 13:21 for a 2-1 lead.It didnt last long. Iginla scored on his own slap shot off a drop pass from Matt Duchene at 16:05.NOTES: Nashville also won eight straight home games between Jan. 6 and Feb. 8, 2007. ... Ribeiro has 25 points (five goals, 20 assists) in his last 24 games, including 11 assists in his last 10 games. ... Wilson has 19 points in his last 15 games. ... The Predators are 14-9-2 when giving up the first goal and 20-4-5 in one-goal games. . Left back Armero opened the scoring in the fifth minute when his deflected shot rolled past Greece goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis. Striker Teofilo Gutierrez poked in Colombias second goal from a deflected corner in the 58th and James Rodriguez capped it off with a low shot in stoppage time after a slick backheel flick from Juan Cuadrado. . -- Martin Kaymer never lost sight of opportunity even amid so much evidence of trouble in the closing stretch Sunday at The Players Championship.
http://www.thechiefsshoponline.com/Yout ... fs-Jersey/. Trailing 4-1 in the final set, Sharapova steadied her erratic service game and took command again to beat the 56th-ranked American 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 on clay at the Magic Box tennis centre. The ninth-ranked Russian looked to be cruising before McHale broke late in the second set to tie the match and then took her commanding lead in the final set after breaking Sharapova. . Head of clinic Josef Obrist tells the Austria Press Agency on Thursday that Morgenstern "is doing surprisingly well. ... He still has a memory gap but thats nothing unusual." Morgenstern has moved to a rehabilitation clinic in Klagenfurt for further recovery. . Murray, the defending champion and No. 3 seed, claimed his first match win at Queens in 2005 and went on to win the Wimbledon warmup three times. But he failed to take advantage of eight set points after leading the first-set tiebreaker 6-2, and Stepanek survived to convert with his second set point.CALGARY -- Adam Jones scored seven goals and added an assist and John Grant Jr. scored backwards over his shoulder in overtime as the Colorado Mammoth edged the Calgary Roughnecks 14-13 in National Lacrosse League action on Saturday. Grant scored three, including the winner, and helped on two more, and Joey Cupido, Dan Ball, Jackson Decker and Anthan Iannucci each added a goal apiece for Colorado (2-5). Chet Koneczny had three assists. DDane Dobbie, Shawn Evans, Curtis Dickson, Dan MacRae, and Scott Ranger scored two goals each for Calgary (2-3), Jeff Shattler had a goal and five assists, and Daryl Veltman and Curtis Manning each scored.dddddddddddd Mammoth goalie Dillon Ward made 35 saves for the win. Mike Poulin and Frankie Scigliano split time in Calgarys net, with Poulin giving up 12 goals on 29 shots, and Scigliano making three saves on five shots. ' ' '
