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  • Posted January 12, 2020
    TAMPA, Fla. Cheapest Yeezy 700 . - Steven Stamkos and the Tampa Bay Lightning were too much again at home for the Philadelphia Flyers to handle.Stamkos had two goals and an assist, and the Lightning beat the Flyers 4-3 on Thursday night.I didnt think we had our best game, but we found a way to win, Stamkos said. Thats a good characteristic to have.Vladislav Namestnikov and Jason Garrison scored the other goals for the Lightning. Tampa Bay has beaten the Flyers seven straight times at home, dating to February 2011.Wayne Simmonds, Jakub Voracek and Michael Raffl netted goals for the Flyers, who had won three in a row.The Lightning were 2 of 5 on the power play. Philadelphia failed to score on two chances.Weve been a disciplined team all year, Flyers coach Craig Berube said. All of a sudden we become an undisciplined team tonight. You take seven penalties, youre going to have a tough time.After Stamkos gave Tampa Bay a 3-1 lead with his eighth goal this season from the left circle at 5:30 of the third, Voraceks in-close shot made it a one-goal game again 68 seconds later.Garrison made it 4-2, snapping his 28-game goal drought, on the power play with 3:12 to play. Valtteri Filppula earned his third assist of the game on the goal.Raffl cut the Flyers deficit back to one in the final minute.We bent a little, but didnt break, Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. It was good to see.Stamkos put the Lightning ahead 2-1 during a power play with 45.7 seconds remaining in the second period. He has 16 goals and 25 points in 21 games against Philadelphia.They have a good power play with Stamkos shooting everything, Voracek said. Dangerous. I would say it was a couple of tough goals, but thats the way they saw it. We could do nothing about it, just maybe focus, try to kill it.Namestnikov redirected Anton Stralmans blue line shot past goalie Ray Emery for a 1-0 lead 3:29 into the game. Stralman has eight assists and nine points in 11 games this season after getting 13 points over 81 games last season with the New York Rangers.The Flyers went almost 10 minutes before Claude Giroux got their initial shot on goal. Simmonds tied it 1-1 and stopped his five-game point drought when he beat Ben Bishop on a rebound goal with 7:17 left in the first.Tampa Bays Tyler Johnson had his seven-game assist streak end. The centre had 11 assists over the stretch.NOTES: After the game the Flyers announced that they had signed 31-year old unrestricted free agent defenceman Carlo Colaiacovo. The team is without injured defencemen Braydon Coburn and Andrew MacDonald. ... Flyers C Vincent Lecavalier said he is close to returning from a foot injury that has sidelined him seven games. ... Tampa Bay RW Ryan Callahan, who has missed five games due to a lower body injury, could play Saturday against Washington. ... Philadelphia D Brandon Manning, recalled Wednesday from Lehigh Valley of the AHL, played in his first NHL game since the 2012-13 season and had an assist. Yeezy 350 V2 Store .com) - Minnesota Vikings fans would surely concede Teddy Bridgewater is not Peyton Manning. Fake Jordan 1 Outlet . In the late match, Shinji Okazaki scored two goals to pace Mainz to a 3-2 victory at Werder Bremen. Goals from Milan Badelj, Maximilian Beister and Hakan Calhanoglu ended Hamburgs two-match losing run and kept Hannover winless in seven games.LAKE FOREST, Ill. - Multiple reports say the Chicago Bears are benching quarterback Jay Cutler and going with Jimmy Clausen.ESPN first reported Wednesday that the Bears were switching quarterbacks, with Clausen getting the nod over Cutler for Sundays game against the Detroit Lions. The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, citing sources, also reported the switch.The Bears would not confirm the move.Coach Marc Trestman said earlier Wednesday he was not getting the most out of Cutler, but he did not mention benching the quarterback. He did not reveal the switch when asked about Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden calling for Clausen to relieve Cutler during Chicagos loss to New Orleans.Jon certainly has a right to his opinion, said Trestman, who for weeks defended Cutlers spot as the starter. And each and every week we go through our evaluations all the way around and as I said, Jons got a right to his opinion.Cutler is coming off what might have been his worst game of the season on Monday, completing 17 of 31 passes for 194 yards. He threw three interceptions and was sacked a season-high seven times in the 31-15 loss.He leads the NFL with 18 interceptions and 24 turnovers, certainly not what the Bears envisioned when they signed him to a seven-year contract after last season — or when they hired Trestman two years ago.The frustration has been mounting. Last week, offensive co-ordinator Aaron Kromer admitted he was a source behind a recent NFL Network report criticizing Cutler.Trestman arrived in Chicago with a reputation for getting the most out of quarterbacks. But it hasnt happened with Cutlerr this season. Cheapest Nike Basketball Shoes. I think thats evident I havent, up to this point, said Trestman, when asked if hes gotten the most of Cutler. Am I working at it? Yes. But weve seen moments, but we havent done it on a consistent basis. I cant hide from that. I havent been able and we havent been able to do the thing that we want to get done. Were working toward that. But the answer to that is obvious.Its not just Cutler who has struggled. There is a long list of reasons why the Bears are 5-9 and will miss the playoffs for the seventh time in eight years.Big changes could be coming after the season.Trestman might be coaching his final games, and there are questions about general manager Phil Emery. After all, he hired Trestman over Bruce Arians two years ago and put together a team that took a big step back after going 8-8 last season.Kromer and defensive co-ordinator Mel Tucker also could be gone.The defence has ranked among the leagues worst the past two seasons, but the biggest issue is the regression of the offence. The Bears have gone from second to 19th in scoring and have failed to hit the 30-point mark this year.But its not all about Jay. Its about our entire offence, working together to get it done, Trestman said.Clausen, the former Notre Dame star, has appeared in three games this season and attempted nine passes. He was 1-9 in 10 starts as a rookie with Carolina in 2010 and threw for 1,558 yards that year. Carolina then drafted Cam Newton.The Bears signed Clausen in June, and he beat out Jordan Palmer for the backup job.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL ' ' '