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WINNIPEG Brett Howden Jersey Womens , Manitoba (AP) Tyler Myers could sense his Winnipeg Jets teammates struggling to fight after getting down by two goals to the Washington Capitals.Then came the pushback: Bryan Little scored to make it a one-goal game midway through the third period and Mark Scheifele supplied his second of the night with 15 seconds left to send it into overtime.Myers fired the final shot, with the veteran defenseman taking a backhand pass from Scheifele and putting the puck over Braden Holtby’s glove 3:35 into overtime for the 4-3 victory Tuesday night.�We had moments where we didn’t have much life on the bench, but we managed to flip that switch, get it back going again and I thought it was a great team win,� said Myers, who scored his sixth goal of the season.Scheifele’s 17th goal with 15 seconds left was scored short-handed and through traffic. Defenseman Dustin Byfuglien had been called for slashing Jay Beagle with 1:17 left.�It just shows that we battled so hard,� Scheifele said. �We battled right to the end. That was top to bottom, first line to fourth line. It was an awesome feeling.�Bryan Little scored his 12th for Winnipeg (33-15-9). Byfuglien added two assists.Connor Hellebuyck stopped 24 shots for the Jets, who were playing the seventh of a 10-game homestand. Niklas Backstrom, Andre Burakovsky and John Carlson scored for the Capitals (32-17-7), who still extended their point streak to four games (2-0-2).Holtby made 40 saves and became the second goalie in franchise history to play 20,000 minutes. Olaf Kolzig played 41,260 minutes.�They created their chances but it shouldn’t matter Paul Carey Jersey Womens ,� Holtby said. �A 3-1 lead and a goal lead with 1:17 on the power play, doesn’t matter what happened in the game before that. I know we had a couple opportunities to put it into the empty net. Just move it around on the power play killing time. We just got a little arrogant, in a way, and tried to make fancy plays. It burned us. We deserved that.�Byfuglien set up the game’s first goal when he spun around Burakovsky in Washington’s end and sent the puck toward the net. Scheifele poked it in after it bounced off Holtby’s pad at 14:41.Backstrom tied it up with 23 seconds left in the period off a rebound from an Alex Ovechkin shot.Burakovsky made up for being outplayed by Byfuglien when he scored the go-ahead goat at 11:22 of the second off a sharp-angled rebound of a Lars Eller shot.Carlson scored his 10th goal of the season at 7:01 of the third. Evgeny Kuznetsov picked up an assist, extending his team-high point streak to eight games with two goals and nine assists. Little closed the gap at 11:30.�It’s a hard lesson to learn,� Washington coach Barry Trotz said. �I thought in this building, this is a pretty hostile building. For 54 minutes we played a really good road game.�NOTES: Jets center Matt Hendricks left the game in the second after he was crushed to the ice by a check from Washington defenseman, and Winnipeg native, Madison Bowey. …UP NEXT:Capitals: play Minnesota on ThursdayJets: host Colorado on Friday. WASHINGTON (AP) The Vegas Golden Knights have long embraced their status as unheralded underdogs, from their very first game as an NHL expansion team in October through their stunning dismantling of Winnipeg in the Western Conference Final.�We call ourselves the Golden Misfits for a reason,� winger Ryan Reaves said prior to the Stanley Cup Final series against Washington. �We’ve proven everyone else wrong all season.�Vegas entered the Final as favorites over the Capitals, who broke into the league in 1974 and are still in search of their first championship. The Golden Knights won the opener, but after dropping two in a row they find themselves playing a familiar role as they prepare for Game 4 on Monday night.�We’re still underdogs Chris Tierney Jersey Womens ,� left wing David Perron said. �They’re a great team over there. Now the pressure is on them to keep going. We’re going to find a way to answer.�The Capitals got caught up in a fast-paced, fire-at-will contest in Game 1, and Vegas rolled to a 6-4 victory. Washington made the adjustment in Game 2 and won 3-2, then gripped the defensive clamp even tighter Saturday night in a 3-1 win.Now, mired in their initial losing streak of the playoffs and trailing 2-1 in games for the first time, the Golden Knights are desperate to become more effective pushing the puck toward the net.�We get it out on our blue line and we try to make a cross-ice play and they’re picking it off,� Reaves said. �Their transition game is good. We’re getting to their blue line and we’re trying get cute again instead of doing what works. With this team, that’s getting it in and then going to work.�The Capitals know this, and they have taken great strides to shackle a team that averaged 3.31 goals per game during the regular season, tied for fourth in the NHL.�Offensive teams have certain tendencies, certain routes that they take through the neutral zone, plays they like to make,� Washington defenseman Matt Niskanen said. �So if you can be on top of them and turn over some pucks Tyson Barrie Jersey , stifle them, make it hard for them to gain entry with possession, that frustrates skilled players.�The Golden Knights mustered only 22 shots on goal in Game 3, with Tomas Nosek getting the lone score after Washington goaltender Braden Holtby did a miserable job of clearing the puck from behind his net.�They defended well. We were getting clogged up a little bit,� Vegas winger James Neal said. �They sit back. We’ve got to get pucks to the net. We didn’t have enough shots. We didn’t have enough bodies going to the net. They out-battled us. We’re going to look at that and fix it.�That’s what Sunday’s skate was about. The Golden Knights understand the problem, and the task now is to correct the shortcoming.�We’ve just got to get back to our game, getting pucks deep and getting in on the forecheck,� defenseman Derek Engelland said. �It’s been our key all season long, the five-man forecheck and five-guy pressure all over the ice.�Vegas doesn’t need a high-scoring, freestyle affair to win. The Golden Knights have a pair of 1-0 shutouts during the playoffs and have won twice when scoring only two goals.The key is to cut down on the mistakes. Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped Alex Ovechkin at the end of a 2-on-1 rush early in the game, but the Capitals converted an odd-man blitz in the second period for a 2-0 lead.�Working hard to get down low, we just couldn’t hold onto it or make a big play, and the Capitals are going the other way Matt Martin Jersey Womens ,� Vegas center Ryan Carpenter said.It’s not by accident. Washington coach Barry Trotz changed things up after Game 1, and the results were profound.�There are things that they do that have given us some difficulties, and we’ve adjusted,� Trotz said. �They’ll do the same.�The Capitals have fortified their defense, and Vegas now must find a way to penetrate the barrier. If it can do that, then Fleury will happily do his part in to help bring the series back to Las Vegas tied a two games apiece.�I have faith in these guys that they can do well, they can do what they’ve done for the past three rounds and all season long,� the goaltender said.What they’ve done, more often than not, is win when few thought they could.�We’ve been in situations like this before: adversity, have our backs against the wall a bit,� defenseman Luca Sbisa said. �The belief in our group is still here. Just got to stick together.�—More Stanley Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/StanleyCupFinals