OTTAWA -- After a very shaky start to the season, Edmonton Oilers goaltender Devan Dubnyk is finding his feet. Michael Koenen Womens Jersey . Dubnyk turned aside 35 shots and collected his first win of the season on Saturday as the Oilers downed the Ottawa Senators 3-1 and Edmonton nears the end of a six-game road trip. The win comes after Dubnyks 37-save performance on Thursday was wasted in a 3-2 loss to the New York Islanders. "Its nice to get out there and be myself and just worry about playing goal," Dubnyk said after watching his save percentage balloon over the past two games. "It hasnt been an easy start and it was nice the last two games just to relax and go play hockey and know that I can be ready for these guys." Ryan-Nugent Hopkins scored twice, including once into an empty net, and Jordan Eberle also scored for the Oilers (2-6-1), who halted a five-game losing streak. They wrap up the road trip in Montreal against the Canadiens on Tuesday. Chris Neil had the only goal for the Senators (3-3-2) and Robin Lehner made 18 saves in just his second start of the season. The Senators continue to be one of the most penalized teams in the NHL. On Saturday, Ottawa took seven penalties resulting in six power plays for the Oilers, and although none of them cost the Senators a goal, it is a situation that needs to be corrected. "Penalties are not something were going to forget about," said Ottawa captain Jason Spezza, adding that the Oilers took a lot of penalties (six) themselves. "It was a game where both teams were taking penalties and its not like other games where it was lopsided. Well continue to talk about it until we start to take less penalties." Senators forward Milan Michalek was called for goaltender interference when he ran into Dubnyk and teammate Jared Cowen was given an interference penalty as the play continued down into Ottawas end. The Oilers generated only one good scoring opportunity on the ensuing power play as they looked to build on a 2-0 advantage. After the Senators killed off both penalties they were quickly given a power play of their own as Ladislav Smid was called for hooking, but they too were unable to create anything offensively. "It was good to see how calm the guys were after that," Nugent-Hopkins said. "We didnt get too much momentum off (the power play) and obviously not a goal which would have been huge, but we stuck with it and pulled out the two points. Ottawa got on the scoreboard as Neil was credited with his first goal of the season on a shot that looked more like a missed popup than a hockey play. In a scramble at the side of the Oilers goal Neil batted the puck out of midair and it seemed as though Dubnyk tried to catch the puck as it came down, but instead it landed in behind him and then went in. "We said in between periods that it wasnt going to be a pretty one that went in, and thats a prime example of a dirty goal," Neil said. "You go to the net and you get rewarded and we just didnt do enough of that and their goalie was able to see way too much." Edmonton scored on its first shot of the game after the Senators turned the puck over in the offensive zone. Eberle made a nifty to move to get around Spezza and beat Lehner between the legs just 2:15 into the game. A little more than eight minutes later the Oilers struck again, this time after Lehner made a stop but was unable to control the rebound, which went directly to Nugent-Hopkins and then to the back of the net from a sharp angle. It wasnt all good news for the Oilers though, as they lost Taylor Hall in the second period to a left knee injury. After an innocent looking play just inside the Ottawa blue-line Hall turned and hobbled to the bench and directly to the dressing room and did not return. He left following the game with his knee in a brace but without the use of crutches. His immediate condition was not known Notes: Oilers defenceman Denis Grebeshkov made his season debut after missing the first eight games with a groin injuryaJesse Joensuu, Nick Schultz and Ryan Jones were scratches for the Oilers while Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Joe Corvo were scratches for the SenatorsaThe Oilers had lost 39-man games to injury going into the game, compared with just two for the Senators. Gerald McCoy Womens Jersey . The IceHogs scored three unanswered goals, capped by Jeremy Morins third-period goal, to beat the Marlies 3-2 in American Hockey League play Wednesday. Charles Sims Jersey . "First, I would like to offer my deepest and sincerest apologies for any harm I have inflicted on University of Missouri defensive lineman, Michael Sam," the statement read. MILWAUKEE -- Forget ending his epic winless streak. For a while, Ryan Dempster was thinking about throwing a perfect game. Dempster retired the first 15 batters he faced and went on to earn his first win since last August, throwing seven innings of three-hit ball as the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 10-0 on Tuesday night. "Yeah, I was thinking about a perfect game for sure," Dempster said. "Im not an idiot. I know that I hadnt had anybody on base. But its the second-best thing: a win right here." Coming into Tuesdays game, Dempster (1-3) had gone 18 straight starts without a victory -- a streak dating to Aug. 16 of last season. Dempster broke his winless streak in dominant fashion, not allowing a baserunner until Cody Ransom singled to lead off the sixth. Alfonso Soriano hit a three-run home run, Jeff Baker added a two-run shot and Bryan LaHair hit a solo homer for the Cubs, who snapped an 11-game road losing streak. Chicagos road slide matched a franchise record set in 1954. "It felt nice," Dempster said. "Its been a while. But it feels nice because were sitting here, were on a huge road losing streak and everything. It was nice to go out there and win a game like that, and see everybody, the guys played great on defence and hit the ball and they made all the plays and scored a bunch of runs." It wasnt a shock for Dempster to break the streak against the Brewers. Coming into Tuesdays game, he had a 15-6 career record against Milwaukee with a 2.75 ERA. And he had plenty of support from a significant number of Cubs fans who made the drive up I-94. "For some reason, Miller Park against the Brewers, he does a heck of a job," said Cubs manager Dale Sveum, a former coach in Milwaukee. "Obviously, I had to witness a lot of it." Dempster wasnt pitching terribly during his winless streak, posting a 3.95 ERA over those 18 starts. "Its not like hes pitched bad," Sveum said. "Hes pitched pretty good (in) whatever, 80, 90 per cent of his starts hes done pretty well." But the Cubs had scored three runs or fewer in 16 of those games. Scoring runs for Dempster wasnt a problem for the Cubs on Tuesday, as they got five runs in six innings off of Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo (4-5). Ryan Braun was back in the lineup for the Brewers after missing two straight starts because of a nagging right Achilless injury, plus a strained right hip that took him out of Fridays game. Michael Koenen Jersey. Braun appeared as a pinch-hitter Sunday, and the team was off Monday. In the first, Gallardo allowed a one-out single to Starlin Castro, then walked David DeJesus. Soriano then hit a pitch just over the fence in right field, his ninth of the season, to give the Cubs a 3-0 lead. Castro had three hits and a flawless night in the field after earning Sveums ire for not knowing how many outs there were on a play in Mondays loss at San Francisco. "I listened to him, because its my fault," Castro said. As Dempster cruised through the first four innings, the Cubs took a 4-0 lead in the fourth when LaHair hit his 11th homer of the season. Gallardo gave up another run in the fifth. With one out, Tony Campana reached first on an infield hit after Gallardo and first baseman Corey Hart got crossed up on a ground ball. Campana then took third on a single by Castro, and went home on a sacrifice bunt by DeJesus. Gallardo struck out Soriano to end the inning. Meanwhile, Dempster continued to mow down Brewers batters, throwing only 62 pitches through five innings. He finally gave up a single to Ransom to start the sixth, then a two-out single to Carlos Gomez, but he got Norichika Aoki to fly out to end the inning without allowing a run. "It would have been fun," Dempster said. "But five innings is just five innings." Things really fell apart for Milwaukee in the eighth. After an RBI single by Steve Clevenger left runners on first and second with two outs, Darwin Barney hit a bloop single that scored Soriano -- and the Brewers couldnt tag Clevenger out despite getting him caught in a rundown. Brewers reliever Tim Dillard intentionally walked Ian Stewart to load the bases, then walked pinch-hitter Adrian Cardenas to make the score 8-0. Campana grounded out to end the inning. Appearing as a pinch hitter in the ninth, Baker made it 10-0 with a two-run shot, his first homer of the year. Notes: Gallardo had 10 strikeouts, the 16th double-digit strikeout game of his career and first this season. ... Brewers third baseman and longtime Cubs slugger Aramis Ramirez was out of the starting lineup with a left quadriceps strain.... LHP Paul Maholm (4-4, 4.82) faces RHP Zack Greinke (6-2, 3.46) in the second game of the series Wednesday night. cheap jerseys from chinacheap jerseys ' ' '
