VANCOUVER Matt Hunwick Jersey Womens , British Columbia (AP) — The Vancouver Canucks‘ playoff dreams were dashed Friday night. That doesn’t mean they’re packing it in during the final few games of the season.Markus Granlund scored in the eighth round of the shootout, leading the Canucks to a 3-2 victory over the Dallas Stars on Saturday night.“We just want to play well and win,” coach Travis Green said. “We want a team that wants to win, whatever they do, whenever they play.”Tim Schaller and Sven Baertschi scored in regulation for the Canucks. Jacob Markstrom made 38 saves.Granlund’s goal was the only score in the shootout, which ended when Mattias Janmark missed for Dallas.“It’s just nice to play good teams and teams that play,” Markstrom said. “It’s competitive games and good practice for us because they’re in the spot where we want to be. It’s been a long year, but we’ve got to keep grinding here these last three games.”Andrew Cogliano and Alexander Radulov had goals for the Stars, who fell short of pulling off a playoff spot-clinching win after erasing a 2-0 deficit in the third period. Dallas also saw its three-game winning streak stopped.“It’s huge right now Jeff Skinner Jersey Womens ,” Radulov said of the point the Stars earned with the shootout. “We’ll take that. Our goal is to make the playoffs, so we are one point away from it, so we shouldn’t wait for anybody. We’ve just got to go get that point or two next game and go from there.”Schaller opened the scoring when he scooped the puck from behind the net and wrapped a back-handed shot around, poking the puck under Anton Khudobin’s pad 4:52 into the game. It marked the third goal of the season for Schaller, with all three coming against the Stars in games this month.Baertschi made it 2-0 11:16 into the first, picking up the puck at the blue line, streaking into the offensive zone and sniping a wrist shot from the bottom of the faceoff circle. The shot beat Khudobin five-hole and marked Baertschi’s first point since returning from symptoms of post-concussion syndrome that kept him sidelined for 23 games.“It’s been a hard year for him,” Green said. “To see him get a goal and a big goal, you’re happy for him.”Markstrom stopped every shot he faced through nearly 2 ½ periods before Cogliano beat him with a wrister 9:14 into the third period.Radulov added another goal 14:11 into the final frame Jaycob Megna Jersey Womens , sending a long wrist shot sailing toward the Canucks net. The puck appeared to bounce off Vancouver defenseman Troy Stetcher and in.Tyler Seguin nearly ended the game with less than two minutes left, snapping a closer-range shot at Markstrom, who trapped the puck under his arm to force overtime.NOTES: Radulov extended his points streak to five games. … Canucks RW Jake Virtanen missed the game with a lower-body injury. … Seguin’s six-game points streak was snapped. The Dallas center had scored four goals and six assists during the stretch.UP NEXTStars: host Philadelphia on Tuesday night.Canucks: host San Jose on Tuesday night. NEW YORK (AP) The Chicago Blackhawks are in an uncertain and wholly unfamiliar place.They know they will not have the opportunity to compete for the Stanley Cup, and morale is low. A franchise used to preparing for the playoffs has been relegated to finishing the season feeling good about itself.And maybe look to see who will make up next year’s squad.”When you’re not winning, it’s not easy to get that confidence and enthusiasm,” coach Joel Quenneville said after the Blackhawks snapped a five-game losing streak with a 3-1 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday night.”At this stage in the game, build a little something off it,” he added.Patrick Kane and Brandon Saad scored in the second period, and Brent Seabrook added an empty-netter for the Blackhawks. Anton Forsberg made 30 saves.”It was something Max Jones Jersey Womens , I don’t know, I didn’t really expect tonight,” said Kane, who centered Chicago’s top line. ”It was a little bit different. Weird playing a different position. Something I haven’t done in six years.”John Tavares scored late in the third period and Jaroslav Halak finished with 22 saves as the Islanders lost for the fifth time in six games and 13th in their last 15 (2-9-4).”I think we’re better than what we’ve shown,” Tavares said.Chicago was eliminated from postseason contention for the first time since 2008 following its 5-1 loss to Colorado on Tuesday, and pushed the struggling Islanders to the verge of being knocked for the second straight year.”You’ll take a win when you’re (going) through a stretch when you haven’t won in a while,” Quenneville said. ”Any win certainly feels better than what we’ve been going through.”Kane opened the scoring 2:36 into the second period with his team-leading 26th of the year. With the Blackhawks on the power play after Thomas Hickey was whistled for tripping Tomas Jurco as the two battled for a puck along the boards, Kane’s shot from the right circle deflected off Adam Pelech’s stick blade and through Halak.It took the Blackhawks 1:49 to add to their lead as Saad tapped a rebound off of his initial shot – which ricocheted off the end boards – along the goal line before the puck bounced off the back of Halak’s left skate into the net.”It’s a tough one for the goalie,” Islanders coach Doug Weight said. ”It’s a bounce. Two bounces Andrej Sustr Jersey Womens , two goals, we’re down.”Forsberg made the lead hold up, even though he only faced 22 shots in the final 40 minutes. His lone mistake was Tavares’ unassisted goal with 2:42 left, but Seabrook’s empty-netter with 1:14 left ended the scoring.”For the most part, we generated good chances, had opportunities, even in the last eight, nine minutes had some really good looks,” Weight said. ”Just couldn’t get the puck by him.”Neither team scored in an opening period which was mostly played at even strength Barrett Hayton Jersey Womens , except for an Islanders power play late. New York outshot the Blackhawks 10-9 in the period.”It sums it up,” Weight said. ”We played a good game, it’s not good enough but we played a good game and we generated enough to win.”NOTES: The teams split the regular season series, with the Islanders winning 7-3 at Chicago on Jan. 20. … The Blackhawks went 1 for 2 on the power play. The Islanders were 0 for 2. … New York outshot Chicago 32-25. … Chicago C Jonathan Toews missed his second straight game with an upper body injury. … The Blackhawks scratched LW Anthony Duclair. … D Dennis Seidenberg and RW Chris Wagner were the Islanders’ scratches. … The announced attendance was 13,091.UP NEXTBlackhawks: Host San Jose on Monday night.Islanders: Host Florida on Monday night.—