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MONTREAL (AP) — The Montreal Canadiens lost their game to the Minnesota Wild Womens Luke Kunin Jersey , but not their captain.Mikael Granlund scored, Devan Dubnyk stopped 32 shots for his first shutout of the season and the Wild defeated the Canadiens 1-0 Monday night.The Canadiens got good news about Shea Weber, who was hit in the face with the puck while blocking a shot in the first period.The Canadiens’ captain will travel with the team on a two-game trip, starting Tuesday night in Detroit.It’s a major break for the Canadiens, who have lost two games in a row and are struggling get back in a playoff position in the Eastern Conference.“He’ll go on the road trip with us,” Montreal coach Claude Julien said. “The tests were positive. I assume he will play (on Tuesday) but I can’t guarantee it.”Weber blocked a shot by Granlund and the puck rode up his own stick and hit him on the left cheek.Weber winced in pain on the bench but played seven more shifts and finished the first period. He did not return for the second.The 33-year-old already missed the first 24 games of the season with foot and knee injuries dating to last season.Defensemen Petry, Victor Mete and Jordie Benn were forced to carry the load of Weber’s absence Marcus Foligno Jersey , playing 26 minutes, 40 seconds, 21:15 and 21:12, respectively.“Obviously that’s a big loss in the first period,” said Petry. “You never want to lose a guy. It’s about guys playing in different roles and playing a little more than normal. It does shake things up a little bit.”Montreal was also without forward Kenny Agostino for most of the game. Agostino was given a game misconduct just 2:28 in because of a late hit on Minnesota’s Eric Fehr, who left the game after hitting his head on the edge of the players’ bench. Fehr did not return.The depleted roster took its toll in the third period as Granlund netted his first goal since Nov. 29.“We were in it the whole time,” Julien said. “We had better scoring chances than they did. One mistake ended up costing us the game.”Carey Price stopped 24 shots for the Canadiens http://www.officialwild.com/authentic-adidas-matt-dumba-jersey , who have dropped two in a row.With the win, the Wild have won three straight games, all on the road.“It was a fairly sloppy game overall,” Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. “It seemed like the ice was so fast that pucks were spinning like a curling rock every time it hit somebody’s stick. The best pass was the one they gave Granlund.”Granlund scored the game’s only goal at 6:58 of the third period after pouncing on a no-look pass giveaway by Montreal defenseman Jeff Petry deep in his own zone.Granlund scored his 12th of the season when he waited out Price, who was partially blocked by players in front of the net.The Wild have won eight consecutive games against the Canadiens dating to Nov. 8, 2014. Granlund has at least a point in each of those victories.The Canadiens failed to avenge a 7-1 loss in the teams’ last meeting. It was Montreal’s worst defeat of the season.NOTES: The Wild took a season-high 23 penalty minutes in the first period. . The Canadiens announced Monday that Price will not attend the NHL All-Star Game due to “a nagging injury.” … Montreal placed defenseman David Schlemko on waivers.UP NEXTWild: At Boston on Tuesday.Canadiens: At Detroit on Tuesday. ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) The Anaheim Ducks‘ penalty kill has been able to keep opponents in check.They can score goals as well as they can prevent them Mikael Granlund Jersey , a knack they showed against the Columbus Blue Jackets to bolster Anaheim’s playoff chances.Andrew Cogliano and Josh Manson scored 1:27 apart in the second period and the Ducks defeated the Blue Jackets 4-2 on Friday night.Cogliano put Anaheim in front 2-1 at 11:17 with his 15th short-handed goal for the Ducks, one shy of tying Paul Kariya’s team record. Artemi Panarin couldn’t collect a pass by Pierre-Luc Dubois from the neutral zone back into the Columbus end while under pressure from Cogliano, giving the Anaheim forward a breakaway. He beat Sergei Bobrovsky between his legs.It was the Ducks’ ninth short-handed goal this season. Anaheim is tied with Florida and Buffalo for the NHL lead.Manson scored shortly after leaving the penalty box, making it 3-1 at 12:44. Collecting Francois Beauchemin’s clearance at the Columbus blue line, Manson scored on the breakaway with a backhand by faking Bobrovsky into doing the splits.”It’s like what you dream about when you’re in the penalty box,” said Manson, who scored his fifth goal.The Ducks have killed off 29 of 30 penalties in their last 10 games Youth Mikko Koivu Jersey , the best mark in the NHL since Feb. 9. That includes 20 straight kills, and they kept the Blue Jackets scoreless on their two power-play chances.”It’s getting to the time of the season where you can’t make many mistakes and you need to be good. You need to be good every night, so I think we’re all holding ourselves to a little bit higher standard and putting a little pressure on ourselves `cause we want to have a good run here,” Ducks goalie John Gibson said.Gibson made 34 saves after missing three games with a lower-body injury. Rickard Rakell and Cam Fowler each had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who are 5-1-1 in their last seven games.Sonny Milano and Zach Werenski scored for the Blue Jackets, who have lost three in a row on the road. Bobrovsky stopped 31 shots.Anaheim holds the second wild card in the Western Conference and is one point behind Los Angeles for third place in the Pacific Division.Columbus is tied with Carolina for the second wild card in the East and is seven points behind Pittsburgh for third in the Metropolitan Division.Milano scored first for the Blue Jackets at 12:28 of the first period, but Rakell tied it 1:38 later with a backhand for his fourth goal in two games.Fowler gave the Ducks a 4-1 lead at 16:05 of the third Ryan Suter Jersey , and Werenski scored at 17:43 to make it 4-2.Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella couldn’t explain the brief breakdown on the power play in the second. Special-teams issues have been a recurring trend for Columbus, which gave up decisive power-play and short-handed goals in its loss at the Los Angeles Kings to open a three-game California road trip.”We played good enough to lose, and in that little section of the game, that minute or so in the game . I thought we were playing really well to that point. Yeah, I don’t know what else to tell you. That changes games,” Tortorella said.NOTES: Ducks C Ryan Getzlaf missed the game with the flu. … Blue Jackets C Alexander Wennberg did not play because of an upper-body injury. … Chris Kelly had one shot and played 9:27 in his Anaheim debut. Kelly signed with the Ducks as a free agent Monday after helping Canada win the bronze medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics. … Panarin’s point streak ended at six games.UP NEXTBlue Jackets: Visit the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.Ducks: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday.—