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The last 48 hours have been a whirlwind for Max Pacioretty.After missing seven games because of a lower-body injury Womens Kris Russell Jersey , the Vegas Golden Knights forward scored the winner Friday night in his return at Anaheim, then rushed back to Las Vegas in time to see son Michael born at 2 a.m. Saturday.Sunday it was back to business, with the former Montreal star breaking a tie with 4:14 left in the second period to help Vegas beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2.“It (was) a lucky bounce off my pant; I thought that our line generated a lot tonight, I think we were leaned on defensively as well, and that’s the type of line we want to be,” said Pacioretty, who redirected Shea Theodore’s shot from the point past goalie Keith Kincaid for his second straight game-winner. “It’s just a weekend to remember. I’m happy that he is here finally and happy that everyone is home, happy and healthy.”Malcolm Subban made 36 saves, and Vegas overcame a 2-0 deficit to improve to 17-3-3 since Nov. 21.“We were definitely the better team most of the game so I think we deserved this one,” Subban said. “It was a tough start there, with a couple of goals, but the boys were right back and persevered and I didn’t get too much the rest of the game.”Not until the third period, when he made 20 of his saves, including six during back-to-back New Jersey power play opportunities over the final 3:22 of the game.“He was outstanding tonight, played a real good solid game for us, it was good,” Gallant said. “He hadn’t played in this building in quite a while, so it was good to see him play today. … It was two (penalty kills) back-to-back, and the goalie pulled at the end of it too Leon Draisaitl Jersey , so I think they did an outstanding job. Subby made some real key saves. There was traffic in front of the net, and there was a couple of rebounds there so he stood tall and stood strong in there. It was an excellent job to win a hockey game.”Subban, who said he found out a couple of days prior he’d be in net for his first home start since March 30, has won his last two starts and allowed just four goals in his last three after giving up 18 in his first four starts.“I was excited to get back in front of the fans … anytime you can get in front of your home fans here it’s unbelievable,” Subban said. “It’s the best building in the league. It’s a lot of fun for sure.”Ryan Reaves added his career-high eighth goal, and Brayden McNabb scored his first goal of the season.The defending Western Conference champions moved into a first-place tie in the West and Pacific Division with Calgary, each with 56 points. The Flames have two games in hand.“We just want to keep getting points cause everybody else is winning in our conference, so you got to keep winning and playing hard,” Gallant said. “I like what we’re doing. I didn’t like a whole lot about some of the parts of the game tonight, but we played well enough to win. Tonight, we only gave up two goals, and Subby had a chance to play and played real well so that’s a big thing for our team.Nico Hischier and Ben Lovejoy scored for New Jersey, and Kincaid made 25 saves.With the loss, New Jersey is now 27-11-16 in one-goal games. The Devils have 39 points and are 11 points back in the wild-card race, behind the New York Islanders and Buffalo, who have 50 points each.“Some of our puck management early in the (second) period wasn’t very good. That allowed them to get up and get going,” Devils coach John Hynes said. “Consistency, that’s the biggest thing this year. We understand what our game it is … we know what our identity is and what it needs to be and now it needs to be more consistent to give us a better chance to win more games.”NOTES: New Jersey star Taylor Hill missed his sixth game and remains day-to-day with a lower-body injury. … The Devils are 5-4-2 in day contests this season. … The Devils, who are an astounding 87-0-14 when leading after two periods since the 2015-15 season http://www.officialhockeypanthersshop.com/authentic-adidas-roberto-luongo-jersey , are 2-15-2 when trailing after two periods this season. … Both teams were 0 for 2 on the power play, and the Golden Knights are mired in an 0-for-16 slump over their last six games. … New Jersey is 25 for 26 on the penalty kill in its last seven games.UP NEXT:Devils: At Buffalo on Tuesday nightGolden Knights: Host New York Rangers on Tuesday night. ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Joe Snively cheered for the Washington Capitals growing up and played his youth hockey at their practice facility as part of the Little Caps program.Soon, he could be playing for the big Capitals.Snively on Monday signed a two-year, entry-level deal with his hometown team that begins next season. The 23-year-old college free agent who grew up in Herndon, Virginia, and played at Yale became the latest local product to sign an NHL contract and is more evidence of the Alex Ovechkin effect on the growth of youth hockey in the Washington area.“It’s pretty cool for this area, for fans and for kids,” Ovechkin said Monday. “They see the progress that hockey did in the United States and, obviously, in D.C., and it’s pretty cool.”Producing NHL-caliber talent is now becoming the norm in the decade and a half since Ovechkin entered the league in 2005 and ushered in a new generation of Capitals success. Snively joins 2009 Penguins draft pick Nick Petersen, 2010 Canadiens first-rounder Jarred Tinordi and Minnesota’s Sam Anas as Little Caps alumni to sign an NHL contract.“When the Caps started to become successful, you could just see the amount of people in the local rinks, it started to increase,” Snively said. “More kids wanted to play hockey. It became a hockey city. It’s been really cool to witness and be a local (from) Northern Virginia and just see how the hockey community’s just gotten so much bigger.”Snively met Ovechkin at the dentist more than a decade ago and got a pair of gloves signed. He could now become the first Washington-area native from the Ovechkin era to play for the Capitals, similarly to how Jeff Halpern was the local product of a previous generation of players.The skilled, 5-foot-9 forward’s decision came down to five teams expressing serious interest after going undrafted and developing into Yale’s leading scorer in each of the past four seasons. His dream to play for the Capitals weighed in as much as the business and hockey factors.“Signing with the Capitals, my hometown team http://www.officialkings.com/authentic-adidas-alex-iafallo-jersey , and the possibility of playing in the NHL for them was for sure a big plus for me,” said Snively, who could join Hershey of the American Hockey League for the rest of the season on a tryout agreement. “You grow up watching the Caps, you dream of playing for them. It felt really great to sign a contract with the Capitals, but my goal is to play in an NHL game with them and I’ve still got a lot of work to do before that.”Snively put in a lot of work to get to this point. Little Caps executive director Doug Plocki said Snively always had a good mix of skill and work ethic to stand out during his four years with the program.This season, Snively had 15 goals and 21 assists for 36 points in 33 games to become a sought-after prospect. After Ovechkin became one of hockey’s best players and the Capitals won the Stanley Cup last year, Snively’s signing is another milestone for kids in the area.“It really puts an exclamation point on the dream that a lot of these kids in this area have,” Ploki said. “If you work hard and you do the right things, you could end up playing for the club that’s right in your backyard. It’s a massive, massive thing for players in this area. Kids that come and play for the Little Caps get excited because they get to put on the Capitals jersey and play their games in that jersey. So to see a kid come from that and be able to put it on for real is pretty extraordinary and very exciting.”Putting on that Little Caps jersey became tougher over the years. While there has been a boom in youth hockey participation in the Washington area, the Little Caps, with their fixed amount of teams and roster spots, became more competitive and the talent level has risen.Snively is a byproduct of that. After four years with the Little Caps, Snively went on to the United States Hockey League and then Division I college hockey.And while the Ovechkin effect is a commonly used term around the Capitals, Snively’s favorite player growing up was Nicklas Backstrom, the playmaking Swedish center who also deserves some credit for a burgeoning pipeline of talent coming from the Washington area.“The overall numbers of players playing youth hockey and number of coaches that want to get involved in it is amazing and that’s what it’s all about,” Capitals coach Todd Reirden said. “(This area is) so fortunate to have such generational talents as a guy like Ovechkin and Backstrom and others. It’s pretty neat to see it all kind of come full-circle.”