MONTREAL -- Tomas Plekanec picked the right time to find his scoring touch for the Montreal Canadiens. cheapjerseyschina . The veteran centre scored with 1:07 left in the third period to break a tie and then added an empty-net goal to give the Canadiens a 5-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night. Montreal had blown a 3-0 lead and was having all they could handle in holding off the Jackets young forwards when Plekanec came over the blue-line and fooled goalie Sergei Bobrovsky by taking a quick shot along the ice instead of passing off to open winger Brandon Prust. The puck went in off the goalpost to give Montreal (5-2-0) its fourth straight win. "I tried a no-look shot on the goalie," said Plekanec, who had been off to a slow start with only one goal in his first six games. "I had Prust on the left side, but I wanted to make sure I didnt make a turnover, so I put it on the net. I kind of got lucky." The Blue Jackets got a power play in the final minute, but Plekanec was sent in alone by Prust for the empty netter with 16 seconds remaining. It was Montreals second short-handed goal of the game. "Its great, especially after a slow start for myself and our line," he said. Michael Bournival got his first NHL goal and Rene Bourque also scored for Montreal, while defenceman P.K. Subban had two assists for 10 points in his last six games. Rookie Boone Jenner scored his first two NHL goals and Ryan Johansen got his first of the season for Columbus (2-4-0), which has lost three in a row. Jenner got both his goals by going to the net to pick up rebounds on power plays. The first came during the same Columbus man advantage that Markov scored a short-handed goal on at 6:52 of the second frame to put the Canadiens up by three goals. "It was pretty special," said Jenner. "And we got some momentum off of it, so it was good. "Its a pretty cool building to get it in, obviously. I watched the Habs a lot growing up in Ontario. So its kind of cool. Its one Ill remember for sure." A Columbus lineup missing Marian Gaborik (flu) and Nathan Horton (shoulder) played with energy even after going down 2-0 in the first period, and made it a gripping, end to end contest for the 21,273 Bell Centre fans. "Were a team that never quits," said 20-year-old Jenner. "Were not going to change our game no matter what the score is. We were down 3-0 and we started to pick it up. Getting a couple of power plays got us rolling a bit." Montreal coach Michel Therrien called it the kind of game that fans love but that gives coaches grey hair. Montreal had a 36-33 shot advantage. Therrien was concerned his team would come out flat in its first game at home after a four-game trip to western Canada but, led by Subban, they burst out of the gate. Bourque, who has also been battling the flu, was alone at the far blue-line during a power play for a long pass up the middle from Subban that turned into a breakaway goal only 4:38 into the game. Subban drew two opponents away to get the puck to Andrei Markov for a clever cross-ice pass that Bournival didnt get all of, but the captain of the 2012 Memorial Cup champion Shawinigan Cataractes saw it slide through Bobrovskys pads at 12:01 of the first. Markov made it 3-0 with a short-handed goal as his weak shot from the point went off a stick and past Bobrovsky 6:52 into the second frame. Columbus struck back on the same power play as Jenner picked up Johansens rebound and lifted it past Carey Price at 7:41. Johansen elected to shoot on a 2-on-1 and scored his first of the season at 17:11. Jenner tied it on the power play 3:42 into the third when he scooped up Mark Letestus rebound off Prices shoulder and put a backhand shot under the crossbar. It looked to be headed for overtime when Plekanec surprised Bobrovsky and most of the crowd with his game-winning shot. "He made it look like he was going to dish it off to the guy going with speed on the other side and then he just threw it across his body," Price said of the Plekanec goal. "I know it caught (Bobrovsky) by surprise because he was a good couple of feet off where he should have been." The Canadiens started a five-game homestand that see them face Nashville on Saturday night. The Jackets end a three-game road trip Saturday in Washington. Notes: Sean Collins, who made his first start of the season, replaced Gaborik. . . Had Bourque not played, defenceman Nathan Beaulieu would have skated on the fourth line. Beaulieu was scratched. . . Therrien announced that Max Pacioretty, who was injured Tuesday in Winnipeg, will miss three weeks with a strained left hamstring. . . Linesman Derek Amell of Port Colbourne, Ont, worked his 1,000th NHL game. cheap china jerseys . There is some potential on offence but overall the roster doesnt have enough talent to get excited about in 2013. Maybe QB Jake Locker makes the leap in his third year in the league, but Tennessees fortunes are still tied more closely to Johnson at running back, who will need to return to CJ2K for the Titans to have any chance at the playoffs this season. cheap jerseys from china wholesale . But what goes up ultimately comes down, and an ugly loss to the Chicago Bears the following week ushered the Seahawks out of the postseason. If their hosting of a first-round playoff matchup was the biggest surprise of the year, than the Hawks not-so-shocking exit in Chicago stood at the other end of the spectrum. While Seattle certainly wasnt expected to make a deep playoff run, dont think head coach Pete Carroll will simply just rest after getting the Seahawks to the postseason for the seventh time in 12 seasons.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Joe Thornton scored the tiebreaking goal with 5:39 left in regulation to help the San Jose Sharks overcome a two-goal deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 on Thursday night. Justin Braun started the comeback with a goal late in the second and Patrick Marleau and Brent Burns scored tying goals earlier in the third for the Sharks, who have 10 wins and one tie in their last 11 home games against Pittsburgh. Burns added an empty-net goal and Antti Niemi made 19 saves for San Jose. Olli Maatta scored two goals and Chris Kunitz also scored for the Penguins, who last won at the Shark Tank on Oct. 22, 1997. Jeff Zatkoff made 42 saves in his first appearance since beating Los Angeles on Jan. 30. But Zatkoff would probably like another chance to stop the goal scored by Thornton. On what looked like an innocent play, Thornton flipped a shot from the blue line that fooled Zatkoff and went in over his shoulder. It gave the Sharks just their third win all season when trailing after two periods. The goal capped a wild third period that featured the Sharks tying the game with a short-handed goal, falling back behind and then tying the game again all in a span of 1:34. The scoring spree started after Matt Nieto was given a double-minor for high-sticking Simon Despres. The Sharks killed off the first penalty and then tied the game at 2 on a spectacular goal from Marleau, who took a pass from Jason Demers, faked out Evgeni Malkin and then beat Zatkoff with a backhand. The Penguins went back ahead 21 seconds later with their second power-play goal of the game when Brandon Sutter set up Maatta for his first-career two-goal game. That lead was also short-lived when Burns took a pass in the slot from Joe Pavelski 1:13 later and beat Zatkoff with his second goal in as many games after a 19-game scoring drought. Trailing 2-0, the Sharks took over control of the play in the final half of the second period thanks to some hard hits dished out by RRaffi Torres, Jason Demers and Brent Burns.www.cheapjerseyschina.cc. That energy translated into a goal when Tommy Wingels prevented Zatkoff from freezing a puck to set up Brauns point shot through a screen by Adam Burish. The goal ended an 18-game drought by San Joses defencemen since Dan Boyle scored against Detroit on Jan. 9. The Penguins got some reinforcements from deals made before Wednesdays trade deadline with forward Lee Stempniak and centre Marcel Goc making their debuts for Pittsburgh after arriving in town shortly after the morning skate. The game got off to a fast-paced start with no stoppage in the first 5-plus minutes. The Sharks threatened on a power-play midway through the period before the Penguins got goals from Maatta and Kunitz in the final 5 minutes to take the 2-0 lead. That was San Joses biggest deficit after the first period all season. NOTES: Goc had an assist on the first goal. ... Pittsburgh star Sidney Crosby has not scored a goal in six career games against San Jose. The only other teams he has failed to score against are St. Louis (seven games) and Chicago (three games). ... Olympic figure skater Polina Edmunds, who trains at the Sharks practice facility, dropped the ceremonial first puck. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Joe Thornton scored the tiebreaking goal with 5:39 left in regulation to help the San Jose Sharks overcome a two-goal deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 on Thursday night. Justin Braun started the comeback with a goal late in the second and Patrick Marleau and Brent Burns scored tying goals earlier in the third for the Sharks, who have 10 wins and one tie in their last 11 home games against Pittsburgh. Burns added an empty-net goal and Antti Niemi made 19 saves for San Jose. Olli Maatta scored two goals and Chris Kunitz also scored for the Penguins, who last won at the Shark Tank on Oct. 22, 1997. Jeff Zatkoff made 42 saves in his first appearance since beating Los Angeles on Jan. 30. ' ' '
