PORTLAND, Ore. - Taylor Leier scored in overtime as the Portland Winterhawks came from behind to defeat the visiting Kelowna Rockets 4-3 on Tuesday in Western Hockey League playoff action. The Winterhawks, who trailed 3-1 late in the third period, put 65 shots on net before Leier scored the winner on Kelownas Jordon Cooke at the 10-minute mark of extra time. Oliver Bjorkstrand had a pair of goals for Portland, which leads the best-of-seven series 2-1, and Brendan Leipsic forced overtime when he scored at 18:42 of the third. Riley Stadel, Colten Martin and Ryan Olsen supplied the scoring for the Rockets. Corbin Boes made 30 saves for the Winterhawks while Cooke turned away 61 shots for Kelowna. Portland will host Game 4 of the Western Conference final on Wednesday. --- TIGERS 2 OIL KINGS 1 MEDICINE HAT, Alta. -- Marek Langhamer stopped 43 shots, including all 14 his way in the third period, as the Tigers hung on to beat Edmonton in Game 3. Tommy Vannelli put the Tigers on the board at 6:25 of the first period while Dylan Bredo scored what turned out to be the winner at 17:22 of the second. Curtis Lazar opened the scoring for the Oil Kings, who lead the best-of-seven Eastern Conference final 2-1. Edmontons Tristan Jarry turned away 19-of-21 shots in defeat. . Rajon Rondo had 18 of Bostons season-high 38 assists and the Celtics committed just seven turnovers in a 118-111 win over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night. . 5 Trade Deadline isnt that far away and teams will be making decisions on whether to buy, sell and decide which players can make the biggest difference and hold the greatest value.
http://www.officialcapitalsfanstore.com ... ls-jersey/. And all things considered, the first 40 games have offered a little bit of everything from a hockey club that faced many questions in its first year under new management, with a new head coach and with a number of new faces in the lineup. However, with a recent dip in scoring, it seems some of the same old questions persist and several new ones have been raised after a somewhat troubling homestand. . "This isnt really the week you want to lose Chris Greaves," fellow lineman Glenn January said Wednesday after practice. Greaves is expected to miss several weeks after suffering a knee injury in last weeks 36-28 win over the Ottawa Redblacks. . According to Tony Barrett of The Times, the Liverpool captain is set to announce that he will leave the club at the end of the 2014-15 season.VAL D"OR, Que. - Pierre-Maxime Poudrier scored twice and added an assist, and Antoine Bibeau made 43 saves as the Val-dOr Foreur downed the Baie-Comeau Drakkar 6-3 on Sunday to force Game 7 in their Quebec Major Junior Hockey League final series. Ryan Graves scored a goal and assisted on two more, Guillaume Gelinas had a short-handed goal and an assist, and Anthony Richard and Randy Gazzola also scored for the Foreurs. Alexandre Ranger, Alec Jon Banville and Valentin Zykov scored for Baie-Comeau, while Dominic Poulin tacked on two assists.dddddddddddd Drakkar goaltender Philippe Cadorette made 31 saves in the losing effort. Baie-Comeau hosts Game 7 on Tuesday. The Foreurs jumped out to a 2-0 lead after Poudriers first goal at 10:41 of the first period, and Richards goal at 1:36 of the second. But Banville and Zykov led the Drakkar back to tie the game 2-2 before the end of the second period. ' ' '
