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SAN JOSE http://www.officialpenguinsproshop.com/authentic-adidas-derick-brassard-jersey , Calif. (AP) — when they didn’t necessarily play their best game, the San Jose Sharks found a way to rise to the occasion.Timo Meier scored two goals, Logan Couture had two assists and San Jose defeated the Dallas Stars 3-2 Thursday.After totaling 10 goals in their previous two games, the Sharks were scoreless for the first 36:20.“I didn’t think we started great,” coach Pete DeBoer said. “You have to give (the Stars) some credit. I thought they played a very good game for back-to-back games. I thought they were tight and didn’t give us a lot of room.“I think as the season goes on and you travel, some nights you feel better than others, and tonight was a night where I thought we were off a little, but we battled and found a way to win.”Meier’s 17th and 18th goals sent the Sharks to their third straight win and fifth in six games. Meier has four goals in his last two games and 10 points (five goals, five assists) in his past six contests.Joe Thornton also scored and Martin Jones made 20 saves for the Sharks.A fortuitous bounce figured prominently in Thornton’s goal, with the puck caroming off a shin pad in front.“Yeah, just one of those where it just pops out and there was an open net,” Thornton said. “Just good fortune Youth Evgeni Malkin Jersey , I guess.”San Jose prevented a three-game season series sweep by Dallas, which had won three straight and six of seven against the Sharks. Dallas has lost three in a row overall after winning its previous four.“I thought tonight we played a really hard game,” Stars forward Blake Comeau said. “We played in a tough building against a really good team on a back-to-back . but it’s a results-based league. It’s disappointing we didn’t get the win, but that being said, I thought we did a lot better job tonight than we did in Anaheim and that’s a good step moving forward.”Meier scored at 2:50 of the third period to break a 1-all tie. Just more than five minutes later, the Sharks made it 3-1 on Thornton’s fifth goal of the season.Miro Heiskanen scored his seventh for Dallas with 7:36 left to make it 3-2.Radek Faksa scored at 3:35 of the second to give the Stars a 1-0 lead. Faksa jumped on the rebound of Julius Honka’s shot in front and put the puck past Jones for his fifth goal.Meier tied it at 16:20 of the second, firing a shot from 5 feet inside the blue line through a crowd of players off a faceoff.Stars goalie Anton Khudobin turned back 21 shots after going 5-1 with a 1.32 goals-against average in his previous six games against San Jose.“I thought our effort was pretty good tonight,” Stars coach Jim Montgomery said. “The chances were almost even, the shots were almost even. They get that shot off a shin pad that goes to Thornton on a back door . we didn’t get that bounce.”NOTES: Thornton was in the lineup after missing Wednesday’s practice and Thursday’s optional skate with an undisclosed injury. … Couture has 11 points (two goals, nine assists) in his last nine games. … Stars D Gavin Bayreuther was a healthy scratch. … Stars C Martin Hanzal was a scratch after playing three straight games, his first action since undergoing spinal fusion surgery in April. … Dallas didn’t hold a morning skate after playing in Anaheim on Wednesday night. … The Sharks had five shots on goal and the Stars three in the first period.UP NEXTStars: Wrap up four-game road trip Saturday in Colorado.Sharks: Play at Chicago on Sunday. DETROIT (AP) — Niklas Kronwall scored to give Detroit a two-goal lead, and later in the first period Jake Guentzel Jersey Kids , he knocked Anders Lee off his feet with a high, hard hit.After that, the New York Islanders began asserting themselves.Matt Martin scored a tiebreaking goal with 16:36 remaining in the third period, capping an impressive comeback for the Islanders in a 3-2 victory over the Red Wings on Saturday night. New York trailed 2-0 after the first period but rallied with goals by Casey Cizikas, Ryan Pulock and Martin.Tempers flared after Kronwall’s hit on Lee. Moments later, Josh Bailey of the Islanders took Kronwall down in the corner. Then Bailey and Larkin had a scrap that earned fighting majors for both.“I thought when that hit happened, with Bailey going over there and answering the bell, I thought from that standpoint, he pulled the rest of the group in,” New York coach Barry Trotz said. “Our leadership, the guys were really good.”Lee was able to return to the game after getting stitched up, and he didn’t seem to have much of an issue with the hit.“I had my head down http://www.officialpenguinsproshop.com/authentic-adidas-justin-schultz-jersey , looking for the puck in my skates, and he hit me with a good shoulder check,” Lee said. “That’s hockey.”There was no penalty assessed on the play.“The hard part when you’re coming north-south is to not touch the head at all,” Kronwall said. “I think when you’re skating, you’re in a position where your head is basically the point of your body that’s the most forward. You try to go through the chest or shoulder. Sometimes you end up catching the head. That’s basically all I can say about it.”Justin Abdelkader and Kronwall scored for Detroit in the first, but the Islanders came all the way back. The game winner came when Luke Witkowski of the Red Wings wasn’t able to handle the puck cleanly when it bounced off the boards behind the net. It ended up on Martin’s stick in front of the goal, and he capitalized for his fourth goal of the season.“I loved the way we responded tonight,” Martin said. “We were 2-0 down and our captain is down and bleeding — that’s a pretty bad start, but we talked about it after the first period and we decided we weren’t going to let this one get away that easily. We had to step up. Our leading scorer got into a fight, which you don’t see very often, but that’s the kind of player Josh is.”Detroit opened the scoring when Larkin split two New York players and forced a save by goalie Thomas Greiss. Abdelkader scored on the rebound.Seconds later, the Red Wings had a goal called back for offside Kris Letang Jersey , but they eventually went up 2-0 on Kronwall’s tally. The Islanders gave the 37-year-old defenseman plenty of time to skate to the middle and shoot past a screened Greiss from just inside the blue line. It was his first goal of the season.The Islanders quickly rallied to tie it in the second. After Cizikas made it 2-1, Pulock scored on a slap shot from the right circle while the Islanders had a two-man advantage.“We had an excellent first period, and we could have had more goals,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “We needed to either score at least one more or not take the 5-on-3, because you are always likely to give up a goal on those and then it was a new game.”Later that period, there was another fight, this one between Abdelkader and Johnny Boychuk.NOTES: Greiss made 23 saves, and Jonathan Bernier made 16 for Detroit. … Lee’s four-game goal streak was snapped. … Bailey earned an assist on the goal by Pulock for his 400th career point. … Kronwall’s 81st career goal moved him past Marcel Pronovost for fourth on Detroit’s career list among defensemen. … Red Wings F Tyler Bertuzzi returned after a two-game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct and roughing against the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.UP NEXTIslanders: Host Pittsburgh on Monday night.Red Wings: Host Los Angeles on Monday night.