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DENVER (AP) Second night of a back-to-back on the road – at elevation no less. Losing their goaltender midway through the game. Blocking 33 shots.No wonder Philadelphia coach Dave Hakstol was so complimentary.”Just a gutsy effort Womens Patric Hornqvist Jersey ,” he said.Ivan Provorov had a goal and an assist, Petr Mrazek stopped all 17 shots he faced in relief of starter Michal Neuvirth and the Flyers held off the Colorado Avalanche 2-1 on Wednesday night.Claude Giroux also scored as the Flyers climbed into third place in the Metropolitan Division. They’re tied in points (92) with second-place Pittsburgh, with the Penguins currently holding the tiebreaker.”Every point matters right now,” Mrazek said.Philadelphia looked crisp early – scoring both goals in the first period – despite losing in overtime at Dallas a night earlier. Neuvirth turned back 10 shots in his first game since suffering a lower-body injury on Feb. 18, but he exited the game midway through the second period for an undisclosed reason. Hakstol had no update after the game.Mrazek took over and was exceptional, especially in the last five minutes when the Avalanche turned up the pressure. He withstood a flurry of shots in the last few seconds, including one from Gabriel Landeskog where the red light briefly came on after the puck flew by the net.”Those five minutes felt like 15. So long,” Mrazek said. ”Lots of blocked shots in front of me, a couple of lucky bounces today. Didn’t see, I think Phil Kessel Jersey , one or two pucks get to my pad. Big thanks to these guys in front the last five minutes.”Matt Nieto scored for an Avalanche team that’s on the outside of the playoff picture with five games remaining. They’ve lost three of four, including two of those at home where they’ve been stellar all season. The Avs are 16-4-1 at the Pepsi Center over their last 21 games.What’s more, Colorado’s offense has suddenly gone silent with five goals now in the last four games.”When our line goes cold we lose games,” star forward Nathan MacKinnon said. ”If we have some chances it’s up to us to bury them.”Andrew Hammond had 31 saves during an emergency start for Semyon Varlamov, who was sidelined by an illness. Varlamov had appeared in 21 straight games for the Avalanche.Hammond was called up from San Antonio of the American Hockey League earlier in the day as an insurance policy. It was his first appearance for Colorado after splitting time between the minors and a backup role. He also dealt with what the team called a head injury. Hammond was acquired as part of a three-team trade that sent Matt Duchene to Ottawa in November.”I think it took me a period to get my legs under me,” said Hammond, who played in his first NHL game in more than a year. ”The unfortunate part is I guess the game-winning goal ended up being scored in that period. But as the game went on I settled in and started to feel better.”Nieto cut it to 2-1 by poking the puck past Neuvirth at 5:36 of the second period.Colorado pulled Hammond with around 90 seconds left but couldn’t score the equalizer despite turning up the pressure.Giroux put the Flyers up 1-0 in the first with his 27th goal, and Provorov added another nearly eight minutes later with a blast from the blue line.With Provorov’s score, the Flyers have 48 goals from their defensemen – the team’s most in a season since the group accounted for 52 in 1992-93.”This is how the game is played right now,” Provorov said. ”You can’t create offense with just three forwards. You have to move and have mobile `D.’ I think that’s what we have on our team.”NOTES: Flyers D Shayne Gostisbehere set up Giroux’s goal. Gostisbehere has five assists over his last three games. … D Andrew MacDonald had seven blocked shots. … Avs RW Sven Andrighetto missed a third straight game with a lower-body injury. … Backup G Jonathan Bernier remains sidelined as he deals with a cut on his hand that became infected. He faced some shots during a morning skate Wednesday Sidney Crosby Jersey , but didn’t have his stick.UP NEXTFlyers: Host Boston on Sunday.Avalanche: Face Chicago on Friday before a three-game trip.— ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — In a matchup of teams with eight-game losing streaks, Colin White was able to provide some much-needed relief for the Ottawa Senators.White’s 11th goal at 1:34 of overtime lifted Ottawa to a 2-1 victory over the reeling Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night.While the Senators got off to a good start on their three-game road trip, the Ducks have lost a franchise-record nine straight — surpassing an eight-game skid in October 1996.“It felt great to get that push at the end and finally come up with a win,” said White, who scored his second game-winning goal of the season.Mark Stone brought the puck into the zone and found White near the net, and he slid the puck past Anaheim goaltender John Gibson.“I saw (Stone) skating. I was in front of him so I slowed down a little bit for him and he made a great play so I could tap it in,” White said.Ottawa coach Guy Boucher said the plan was to play with patience and keep it a low-scoring game. The Senators trailed 1-0 after two periods, but Bobby Ryan tied it midway through the third.“We feel like we were in a lot of games lately and we let them go away in the third period and get away from us. Tonight we just stuck with it,” Ryan said.Anders Nilsson stopped 32 shots for his fourth win in 15 games. Five of the Senators’ last six games have been decided by one goal Dougie Hamilton Jersey Womens , but this was the first time they came out with a win.“We got the bounce and in the other games we didn’t get the bounce,” Boucher said.Jakob Silfverberg had Anaheim’s lone goal, and Gibson made 28 saves. The Ducks have played an NHL-leading 13 overtime games at home and are 5-6-2. They are also 0-2-3 during a six-game homestand, their longest of the season.“Right now we’re playing at the end of our sticks and our shots might not be as well-placed as before,” Silfverberg said. “It’s definitely something we’re working on.”The Ducks have scored two or more goals only three times and are 3 of 31 on the power play during their losing streak despite having the edge in shots in five games.“We seem to be snake-bit around the net. We’ve had amble chances, but haven’t been able to find the back of the net consistently,” coach Randy Carlyle said.Silfverberg opened the scoring at 8:52 of the first when he took a pass from Brandon Montour and put a one-timer past Nilsson from just outside the right faceoff circle for his 11th of the season but only second in the past 11 games.Ryan tied it at 9:23 of the third period when he got the rebound of Gibson’s save on Dylan DeMelo’s shot and was able to chip it under Gibson’s left pad for his eighth of the season. It was his third goal and eighth point in 11 games against his former team, which drafted him second overall in 2005. The Senators’ right wing also extended his point streak to five games (two goals, four assists).NOTES: Anaheim C Rickard Rakell returned to the lineup after missing 13 games due to an ankle sprain. … D Jake Dotchin appeared in his 100th NHL game. … The Ducks did not commit a penalty for the first time this season. … Ottawa C Matt Duchene is not on the road trip as his wife, Ashley http://www.officialsharks.com/authentic-adidas-brent-burns-jersey , gave birth to the couple’s first child, Beau, on Wednesday. Duchene is second on the team with 43 points and has six goals and two assists in his past eight games. … DeMelo, who assisted on Ryan’s goal, has an assist in three straight games. … Anaheim had five shots on goal in the first period, marking the sixth time this season the Ducks have had five or fewer in the opening period.UP NEXTSenators: Visit the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night.Ducks: Host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night to conclude the homestand.