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CALGARY Marc-Andre Fleury Jersey , Alberta (AP) — Mark Giordano celebrated his 800th NHL game in style.Giordano had two goals and an assist and the Flames defeated the Arizona Coyotes 7-1 Sunday night.“Whenever you’re playing in a milestone game, you want to win it, first and foremost,” Flames coach Bill Peters said. “When you win it and you’re plus-five with three points, that’s something you can tell your kids and they’re going to look it up and hey, it wasn’t a lie. Good for him.”Giordano, the Flames’ captain, has 47 points (nine goals, 38 assists) in 45 games this season Nate Schmidt Jersey , second among NHL defensemen and five points behind San Jose’s Brent Burns.“It felt good,” Giordano said. “Big win for the team. It felt like we had good puck control, good movement, especially in the first and third.”Matthew Tkachuk scored two goals, and Sean Monahan, Johnny Gaudreau and Sam Bennett also scored for Calgary, which has won five straight and improved to 8-1-1 in its last 10. The Flames lead the Pacific Division by three points over the Sharks.Gaudreau also had an assist, extending his point streak to eight games (eight goals, 10 assists). With 69 points http://www.officialknightsproshop.com/authentic-adidas-oscar-dansk-jersey , he ranks second in the league in scoring, six points back of Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov.Jordan Oesterle scored for Arizona, which had its three-game winning streak halted.Mike Smith got the start in the nets for Calgary in place of red-hot David Rittich. He made 22 saves and improved to 13-9-1.Adin Hill had 19 saves for the Coyotes and fell to 7-5.Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet was not happy with his club’s performance.“We’re playing a first-place team and we can’t have four or five guys on the outside, looking in,” Tocchet said. “We had four guys that weren’t good tonight and Calgary smelt it after the first period.”Calgary surged in front on two goals 68 seconds apart late in the first period.At 16:51, Giordano got the puck in the corner and fired a shot into the top corner from a sharp angle.“Just a real smart, cagey guy, he shows some patience, letting the screen develop and then all of a sudden Authentic Oscar Lindberg Jersey , it’s on and off his stick at the right time,” Peters said.Then Monahan was left alone in the slot and he converted Gaudreau’s pass from behind the net.After Tkachuk’s goal 1:36 into the second period, Gaudreau scored at 17:20 to make it 4-0. Michael Frolik’s shot was stopped, but Monahan slid the rebound over to Gaudreau and he was left with an empty net.Oesterle scored a power-play goal for Arizona, but that was erased when Tkachuk scored his second at 4:20. Less than two minutes later, Giordano added his second.“One of the best captains I’ve played for, for sure, over my career,” Smith said. “The way he competes on the ice Reilly Smith Jersey , the way he practices, is just the epitome of being a true professional.“Unbelievable guy off the ice to be around, too. I’ve been here a short time, but it doesn’t take you long to figure out what kind of person he is and what kind of leader he is. Eight hundred games in this league playing the way he does says a lot about the person he is and the player he is. He deserves it.”NOTES: Calgary D Travis Hamonic (family illness) was a late scratch. He was replaced by Dalton Prout. … Arizona’s Conor Garland had his four-game, goal-scoring streak snapped. … The Flames improve to 22-3-0 in games they score first. … Calgary has a league-best plus-38 goal differential in the third period.UP NEXTCoyotes: Host San Jose Sharks on Wednesday.Flames: Host Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday. WASHINGTON (AP) Unafraid of the impending closing of the subway, Capitals fans partied in the streets Thursday night and into Friday morning to celebrate the franchise’s first Stanley Cup and the city’s first title in the major four professional sports since 1992.After the Capitals beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 on the road in Game 5, celebrations erupted inside their home arena at the viewing party and around Chinatown. Confetti covered fans who filled Capital One Arena, and chants of ”We Want The Cup!” became ”We Got The Cup!”Outside, fans watching on video boards chanted ”Ovi! Ovi!” as captain Alex Ovechkin was presented the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP with 15 goals. The crowd cheered wildly when Ovechkin lifted the Cup to complete his 13th season and the franchise’s 43rd .The Capitals had only made the Cup Final once before and the semifinals twice. One fan held up a sign reading Michael Ferland Jersey Womens , ”Now I Can Die In Peace” – which was made famous in hockey when the New York Rangers won in 1994.This was new for at least a generation of D.C. sports fans. The championship is the first by a Washington professional sports team in the NFL, NBA, NHL or Major League Baseball since the Redskins won the Super Bowl on Jan. 26, 1992, and came 40 years to the day the Bullets won basketball’s title.As police officers blocked F Street and announcements were made about the last Metro train, many fans ignored those pleas and kept partying on the steps of the National Portrait Gallery and in bars surrounding the rink. A couple of fans climbed light poles and one even scaled the nearby dragon tower.”It’s just a relief, man,” longtime Capitals fan Arash Tafakor said amid the celebration. ”We haven’t had a championship in a long time. This puts the monkey off our back – all of D.C. sports.”—