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(SportsNetwork.com) - After a thrilling comeback win over one of the NHLs top teams, the New York Islanders will try for a second straight victory when they host the New Jersey Devils in Mondays clash at Nassau Coliseum. The Islanders followed up a 13-2-0 stretch with three consecutive regulation losses before returning to the win column with Saturdays 3-2 win over the visiting Chicago Blackhawks. The victory halted Chicagos winning streak at eight games. The Blackhawks went ahead 2-0 on Patrick Kanes goal early in the third period, but Kyle Okposo and Lubomir Visnovsky tallied 51 seconds apart midway through the final stanza to grab the lead for good and cool off Chicago. Cal Clutterbuck added a second-period strike for the Islanders, while Jaroslav Halak turned aside 23 shots for the win. I told our guys, Weve got to get that attitude, weve got to get the swagger back in our game. And I think we did that, Isles head coach Jack Capuano said. If we do the right things, we can compete with anybody. The Isles enter Mondays contest with 40 points, placing them two behind the Pittsburgh Penguins for the Metropolitan Division lead. The Pens also play Monday when they host the Tampa Bay Lightning. New Jersey, meanwhile, enters Monday tied with Philadelphia for fifth in the Metro and trailing the second-place Islanders by 13 points. The Devils have lost three straight and nine of their last 11 games, but hope to pick up a victory tonight in what could be their final visit to the Coliseum. Barring a playoff meeting this spring between New Jersey and the Isles, Mondays encounter will be the teams final encounter on Long Island. New York, of course, is moving to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn after this season. This is the second of four regular-season meetings between the clubs. The Isles notched a 3-1 home win over Jersey on Nov. 29. It was New Yorks third straight win in the series and sixth in the last eight meetings. The Isles, who will visit New Jersey on Jan. 9 and March 21 to complete the season series, have won their last two home encounters against the Devils. New Jersey will try to salvage the finale of a three-game road trip tonight after going 0-2 at the start of the swing following setbacks in Philadelphia and Dallas. The Devils fell to 8-11-1 as the guest on Saturday after dropping a 4-3 decision to the Stars. New Jersey allowed the first two goals before tying the game at 2-2, but Trevor Daley and Shawn Horcoff put Dallas ahead for good with tallies late in the second period. Jon Merrill, Eric Gelinas and Scott Gomez all lit the lamp for New Jersey. We battled hard tonight, but we just came up short, Devils forward Michael Ryder said. Weve got to find ways to win. Cory Schneider allowed four goals on 33 shots over the first two periods and Keith Kinkaid made three saves in relief during the third. Schneider is 1-1-1 with a 1.31 goals against average in three career starts against the Islanders. Halak is expected to face him tonight and owns a 4-4-1 mark and a 2.41 GAA versus New Jersey in his career. Mike Cammalleri left Saturdays game in Dallas with a lower-body injury and is questionable for tonight. Cammalleri is leading New Jersey with 11 goals this season despite playing in only 23 of 31 games due to various injuries. Phil Jones Jersey . Mike Babcock has turned to the Montreal Canadiens goalie over Roberto Luongo, who backed Canada to a gold medal in Vancouver in 2010, for Canadas final preliminary round game against the ailing Finns. David de Gea Jersey . Pospisil, the seventh seed, saved match points in each of the last two sets before falling to the unseeded Dutchman. "I wasnt very happy with the way I was playing,"said Pospisil. http://www.manunitedfcpro.com/Kids-Marcus-Rashford-Jersey/ . 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Kamloops, B.C., the host city of this years Tim Hortons Brier, is where he won his first Canadian mens curling crown in 1996.PARIS -- Novak Djokovic worked his way back into the French Open final, taking care of Ernests Gulbis and his big serve 6-3, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 Friday on the first sunny day of this years tournament. The second-seeded Serb was able to control the pace of the match on Court Philippe Chatrier while letting Gulbis unforced errors mount. The powerful Latvian, who was playing in his first Grand Slam semifinal, finished with 44 errors. Djokovic is a six-time major champion who needs to win the title at the French Open to complete a career Grand Slam. He also reached the final at Roland Garros in 2012, but lost to eight-time champion Rafael Nadal. Djokovic will next face either Nadal or Andy Murray in Sundays final. They were up next on Chatrier. Djokovic was first to get into trouble in the first semifinal, but he managed to save two break points and hold to 2-2 in the opening set. A few minutes later, he was ahead for good. Djokovic needed three attempts to earn his first break of the match, and he finally got it when Gulbis sent one of his many forehands long. It was also in that game that Gulbis had his first of five double-faults. His second double came in the final game of the set, when Djokovic broke again. And his third came when trailing Djokovic 4-3 in the second, when the Serb broke yet again. "Im not used to (playing) these kind of big matches," Gulbis said. "Its just normal I felt extra nervous and extra tense." Gulbis fared better in the third set. He again had two break points while leading 3-2, but again failed to win the game. However, he didnt waste his chance two games later, breaking Djokovic to take a 5-3 lead before serving out the set with his 11th ace. The two traded breaks early in the fourth set, and Djokovic broke again to lead 5-3 when GGulbis, again double-faulting once in the game, sent a backhand long.dddddddddddd Djokovic won the last game at love. "It was a struggle out there," Gulbis said. "I felt maybe throughout the match I hit five really clean shots, from either side, backhand or forehand. Even serve." After nearly two weeks of overcast skies and cool temperatures, the sun was shining on centre court and Djokovic and Gulbis were more interested in staying cool than staying warm. Both players used ice wrapped in towels around their necks, like players often do at the sweltering Australian Open, as the temperature reached 28 degrees C (82 degrees F) on Friday. Djokovic is now 5-1 against Gulbis, a 25-year-old player who as a teen showed the potential for becoming a star. But Gulbis has said recently that he is only now playing his best tennis, and only because he has decided to leave the party lifestyle behind and focus on his sport. He certainly showed that at Roland Garros. Gulbis had reached the quarterfinals at a major only once before, and that was way back in 2008 at the French Open. In that match, he also lost to Djokovic, but in straight sets. This year, he eliminated 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer in the fourth round and sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals. "The more I play these kind of matches, the more Im going to get used to these situations," Gulbis said. "For me, I take only the positive stuff out of it. Yeah, I need to be in these situations once, twice, three times, and then I can maybe make that extra step." Djokovic, however, is playing even better. He has won three titles so far this season, and has beaten Nadal the last four times they have played, including on clay in the final in Rome last month. 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