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DENVER -- Antoine Vermette made his 700th game special. Nike Air Max Online Kopen . Vermette ended up a goal short of his second career hat trick, Thomas Greiss stopped 29 shots in an emergency start and the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Tuesday night. Jordan Szwarz also had a goal for the Coyotes, who won for just the second time in five games. Phoenix has struggled of late, going 3-5-2 in its past 10 games to slip to ninth in the Western Conference. Tuesdays win pulled the Coyotes within a point of Colorado. Vermette outscored the Avalanche on his own with two goals in a span of 7 minutes, 2 seconds to mark his milestone game. "Good timing," he said of his two goals. "If it happens this way, Ill take it." Patrick Bordeleau scored his fourth goal of the season and goalie Semyon Varlamov had 22 saves for the Avalanche, who have lost three of their past four. Despite a strong start to the season, Colorado is eighth in the Western Conference and has struggled to score goals lately. The Avalanche have just 15 in their past eight games. "We are going to have to find better ways to score goals," coach Patrick Roy said. "We are going to have to drive that net a little more. We are going to spend more time in front and might have to take more good shots. It might have to be ugly goals before the confidence comes back." After a scoreless first half of the game, the goals came quickly. Vermette got the first one when he scored on a give-and-go with defenceman Keith Yandle at 8:31 of the second period. "These guys make some great plays," Vermette said. "Yands on the first goal, great pass, good feed on his backhand." Szwarz made it 2-0 a little more than three minutes later when he scored on Jeff Halperns rebound. Colorado got back in the game briefly with a little help from the Coyotes. Bordeleau charged at defenceman Michael Stone, whose pass from behind the net clipped off Bordeleau and hit the back of Greiss skate and into the net. "I just left it," Greiss said. "I didnt see the other guy coming from the other side, but it just bounced off my skate and went in." It was the only blemish for Greiss, who woke up Tuesday not expecting to play but was told he would start when Mike Smith became ill in the morning. Greiss responded with another solid performance against Colorado, and is 4-0 with a shutout against the Avalanche. "(Smith) was struggling this morning with illness and just felt like there was no use putting him in if hes not 100 per cent," coach Dave Tippett said. "Greiss went and played a great game for us." His teammates helped him out by restoring the two-goal lead. After Bordeleau cut the lead in half, Vermette quickly responded with his ninth goal when he scored off Oliver Ekman-Larssons rebound 1:05 later. "That was one you hate to give up, kind of a fluky one, but I like the way our guys stayed with it," Tippett said. Colorado had opportunities to take the early lead, but Greiss was sharp. He stopped centres Paul Stastny and Maxime Talbot close in and defenceman Andre Benoit on a breakaway. "We arent scoring enough goals," Stastny said. "Our guys have to do more to put goals on the board. Plain and simple." The Avalanche couldnt mount much of a rally early in the third. They had just five shots in the first 13 minutes of the period before putting pressure on Greiss. Varlamov came off for an extra skater in the final minute, but Colorado managed just one more shot. "Their goalie made some great saves" Roy said. "I think we need a bit of confidence offensively. The chances are there, its just a matter of time before they go in. During that time were going to have to find other ways to score." Notes: Vermettes only hat trick was April 3, 2008, when he was playing for Ottawa. ... Coyotes RW Shane Doan (illness) missed his second straight game. ... Avalanche C Alex Tanguay had a setback in his return from a knee injury and will likely miss more time. He was expected to return this weekend, but a hip injury will keep him out longer. ... Phoenix D Zbynek Michalek returned to the lineup after a nine-game absence because of a lower-body injury. Nike Air Max Belgie Online .com) - Ben Lovejoy tallied a goal and an assist as the Anaheim Ducks cruised into the All-Star break with a 6-3 victory against the Calgary Flames. Nike Air Max Aanbieding Dames .Gasol had 16 points and 13 rebounds, and the Bulls beat the winless Orlando Magic 98-90 on Tuesday night.Jimmy Butler led the Bulls with 21 points and Taj Gibson added 16 for Chicago, which finally pulled away in the final minutes of a game that was tied after three quarters. http://www.airmaxoutletbelgie.be/ . Long snapper Patrick Mannelly announced Friday that he is retiring after a 16-year-career with the Bears, a span in which he played in a team record 245 games and snapped the ball 2,282 times.BAIE-COMEAU, Que. - Luca Ciampini and Maxime St-Cyr both scored in a shootout to lead the Baie-Comeau Drakkar to a 4-3 win over the Shawinigan Cataractes in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action on Saturday. St-Cyr also scored in regulation, while Jamie Clavet and Simon Chevrier supplied the rest of the Drakkar (2-0-0) offence with first-period goals. Gabriel Slight scored for the Cataractes (1-0-1) in the first period, and Alexis DAoust added another goal in the second. Dennis Yan scored to tie the game at 4:46 of the third. Baie-Comeau goalie Philippe Cadorette stopped 28 shots while Shawinigans Marvin Cupper made 30 saves in the loss. The Cataractes were 0-for-6 in power-play chances while the Drakkar failed to score on two man advantages. --- SAGUENEENS 2 ARMADA 1 (SO) CHICOUTIMI, Que. a€” Samuel Hodhod scored the only goal of the shootout and Julio Billia made 25 saves to lift Chicoutimi over Blainville-Boisbriand. Janne Puhakka scored in regulation for the Sagueneens (1-1-0), who were 0-for-7 on the power play. Brendan Hamelin replied for the Armada (0-1-1), who were also scoreless in five power-play chances. --- OLYMPIQUES 4 HUSKIES 2 GATINEAU, Que. a€” Alexandre Landreville scored twice and Anthony Brodeur stopped 26 shots as Gatineau doubled up Rouyn-Noranda. Yakov Trenin had a power-play goal and an assist, and Alexandre AAlain scored one and assisted on another for the Olympiques (1-0-1). Nike Air Max Kopen Goedkoop. Mathieu Bouchard had a goal and an assist, and Mathieu Lemay scored on the power play for the Huskies (0-3-0). --- SCREAMING EAGLES 5 TITAN 4 BATHURST, N.B. a€” Kyle Farrell had a hat trick to power Cape Breton past the Titan. Evgeny Svechnikov and Maxim Lazarev also scored for the Screaming Eagles (2-0-0). Jeffrey Truchon-Viel, Christophe Boivin, Bronson Beaton and Mark Simpson supplied the offence for Acadie-Bathurst (1-1-0). --- MOOSHEADS 6 ISLANDERS 5 (OT) CHARLOTTETOWN a€” Maxime Fortier scored in overtime to lift Halifax over the Islanders. Ryan Falkenham had back-to-back power-play goals for the Mooseheads (1-1-0) in the third period. Morgan Nauss, Cavan Fitzgerald and Timo Meier also scored. Mitchell Balmas and Kameron Kielly both had power-play goals in the final two minutes of the third period as Charlottetown (1-0-1) forced extra time. Filip Chlapik, Nathan Yetman and Will Thompson chipped in as well. --- VOLTIGEURS 4 FOREURS 1 DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. a€” Frederic Aube struck twice as the Voltigeurs downed Val-dOr. Georgs Golovkovs and Marc-Antoine Bouillon both had power-play goals for Drummondville (2-0-0). Pierre-Maxime Poudriers power-play score in the second period was all the offence the Foreurs (2-1-0) could muster. ' ' '