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TAMPA, Fla. -- Special teams will be in the spotlight when the Colorado Avalanche visit the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena on Thursday.Both teams are looking for improvements on opposite sides of their respective special teams after a disappointing showing in the previous game.The Avalanche suffered the first loss of the season in Washington on Tuesday in a 3-0 showing while allowing a pair of power play goals for the third consecutive game. In 14 penalty kills this season, Colorado has killed off just eight and sat in 29th place in the league rankings in the early stages of the season.Our penalty kill was not good enough, Colorado head coach Jared Bednar told the Denver Post after the loss in Washington.It went beyond just the penalty kill for Bednar, who was displeased with his teams overall effort against the Capitals. Colorado allowed 20 shots on goal in the opening period and ended up being outshot 40-18 for the game.Well talk about our response, how were going to play after we win games, and how were going to play when we lose games, Bednar said. I think its all about our response. That was a bad night. It was a tough turnaround for our guys. Well give them a little slack there, but its all about the response and what we do the next game.That next game comes against an undefeated Tampa Bay team looking to close out a perfect four-game home stand to start the season. The Lightning have had to rally in each of their three victories this season, including scoring with 5.5 seconds left in the third period on Tuesday against Florida before picking up a shootout victory.But in the last game against the Panthers, the Lightning went 0-for-3 on the power play, allowed a shorthanded goal while failing to generate a shot on goal with the man advantage, which included a 4-on-3 power play in overtime with a chance to win the game.Sometimes we get a little too comfortable, Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said of his power play unites. So weve mandated to the players how many shots we need. And when you get to our power play, a big part of why weve had success (in the first two games) is we have been shooting pucks. But when you start getting 4-on-3 power plays, you can argue its more of an advantage than a 5-on-4. And we were just too passive and too cute and when we had a chance to shoot, we didnt.In the opening two games of the season Tampa Bay combined for 14 shots on the power play before putting up a goose egg in that department in Tuesdays victory. But Cooper didnt want to beat his team up over what he perceived to be just one below par performance.Weve played nine periods of hockey, and Ive been pretty happy, Cooper said. If you want to sit here and say the first eight periods of hockey, weve played pretty well. Jari Kurri Oilers Jersey . LOUIS -- Roman Polak was celebrating even before Alexander Steen scored the winning goal in Saturdays 4-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. Jean-Francois Jacques Jersey . Lack made 20 saves for his third shutout of the season as the Canucks blanked the St. Louis Blues 1-0 in the first post-Olympic game for both teams night. http://www.hockeyoilersshop.com/wayne-gretzky-jersey/ . 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Johannes Geis scored with a long-range strike, before Klaas Jan Huntelaar struck late.But Mario Ketterer had the home fans celebrating a moral victory when he scored Villingens consolation in the final minute.Cologne routed sixth-tier BFC Preussen 7-0 in Berlin, with Japan striker Yuya Osako coming off the bench to score twice.Wolfsburg edged past third-division FSV Frankfurt 2-1 in the late game, and promoted Bundesliga side Freiburg won 4-0 at fourth-tier SV Babelsberg.Five games went to extra time Saturday afternoon, including the Saxon derby between second-division Dynamo Dresden and promoted Bundesliga side Leipzig.That ended 2-2 after Stefan Kutschke scored twice to cancel Leipziggs 2-0 halftime lead, and Dresden goalkeeper Marvin Schwaebe saved a spot kick as the home side won 5-4 on penalties.ddddddddddddlaus Gjasula clinched the winner in extra time for third-division Hallescher FC in a 4-3 victory over second-division Kaiserslautern, while Italian striker Elia Soriano headed Wuerzburger Kickers into the next round with a 1-0 extra-time win over second-division rival Eintracht Braunschweig.Nuremberg goalkeeper Raphael Schaefer saved the last penalty to give the second-division side a 6-5 win on penalties at fourth-tier Viktoria Cologne.Second-division Arminia Bielefeld also needed penalties to progress, beating fourth-tier Rot-Weiss Essen 5-4 after it finished 2-2 in normal time.Karim Matmour scored in injury time for 1860 Munich to beat second-division rival Karlsruher SC 2-1, Fortuna Duesseldorf won 3-0 at third-division Hansa Rostock, and another second division side, Stuttgart, beat fourth-tier Homburg 3-0.Defending champion Bayern Munich progressed Friday with a comfortable 5-0 win at fourth-tier Carl Zeiss Jena. 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