CHICAGO -- Tyson Barrie and the Avalanche keep finding ways to win as they move up in the Western Conference. Marco Reus Jersey . The defenceman scored his second goal of the game on a power play at 4:09 of overtime, giving Colorado a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night. The Avalanche won their second straight and improved to 6-1-1 in their last eight games despite getting outshot 48-26 and blowing a two-goal lead. With Jonathan Toews off for hooking, Barrie fired the game-winner past Corey Crawford on a one-timer from the left circle after taking a cross-ice pass from Matt Duchene. "This is huge for us," Barrie said. "We want to keep climbing in the standings." The 22-year-old Barrie was an unlikely star in this one. After his first two-goal game in the NHL, he has five goals this season and seven in his career. "This is a tough building to get one point in, so we got the one. We were fortunate to get the power play there, and were able to get the two points," he said. The Avalanche also avenged a 7-2 drubbing by the Blackhawks in Chicago on Dec. 27. Colorado is 6-1-2 since that loss. "We wanted to have a good bounce-back game after that," Barrie said. "If you can beat the champs, its always nice." Barrie and Ryan OReilly scored 1:02 apart late in the first period to stake Colorado to a 2-0 lead. OReilly has three goals in his last two games. But if goalie Semyon Varlamov hadnt made 46 saves in a solid -- and sometimes spectacular -- effort, the game wouldnt have been close. "Hes been like this since the start of the year," Avalanche coach Patrick Roy said. "Hes been outstanding. We rally around him. "That was the type of performance we needed from our goalie to beat the Blackhawks." Chicagos Andrew Shaw scored at 7:27 of the third to tie it. He also assisted on Johnny Oduyas goal in the second. But that was all Varlamov allowed. "We just couldnt find a way to score enough goals to win," Toews said. "It is a frustrating game, but well stay with it and we know we can build off that effort and start playing better hockey than we have been the last few games." Varlamov improved to 9-0-5 in his last 15 games, including 14 starts -- the longest streak of his career without a regulation loss. His last defeat in regulation was at Phoenix on Dec. 10, when the Avalanche lost 3-1. Crawford finished with 23 saves. The Blackhawks have dropped their last seven games that have gone past regulation, dating to a 2-1 shootout win in Dallas on Nov. 29. The defending Stanley Cup champions are 4-11 this season in games that go longer than 60 minutes. They are 0-5 in overtime and 4-6 in shootouts. Colorado defenceman Erik Johnson left late in the second period with a lower-body injury. He tried to return for a shift in the third, but didnt continue. Colorado led 2-0 after the first period despite being outplayed until about 14 minutes in, when the Blackhawks held a 12-3 advantage in shots. But Barrie opened the scoring on a soft screened shot from just inside the right point with 5:02 left in the first. He flipped the puck past several players and it sailed over Crawfords glove. OReilly made it 2-0 with a power-play goal on a crisp passing play 10 seconds after Kris Versteeg was sent off for hooking. OReilly slipped the puck past Crawford after a wide-open setup at the edge of the crease. The Blackhawks pushed back and turned up the pressure in the second, outshooting Colorado 10-1 in the first half of the period and 16-6 overall. But Chicago only managed to cut Colorados lead to 2-1, cashing in on Oduyas deflection of Brandon Saads screened shot from the slot. Shaw tied it on a rebound. He swept in a shot from 10 feet out after Varlamov stopped Saad from point-blank range. Chicagos Michal Rozsival hit the right post on a shot with about 7:30 left. Crawford made a point-blank stop on a wide-open Cody McLeod with just more than 3 minutes left. Toews tripped Andre Benoit at 3:34 of overtime following a Chicago turnover to prevent a possible breakaway, but the ensuing power play led to Barries game-winner. NOTES: Oduya, a defenceman, had gone 23 games without a goal and 10 without a point. ... Colorado C Paul Stastny missed the game with a leg injury sustained Saturday at Minnesota. He is day to day. ... Avalanche G Jean-Sebastien Giguere sat out with back spasms, so Sami Aittokallio was recalled from Lake Erie of the AHL to back up Varlamov. Colorado D Cory Sarich also was scratched. Matz Sels Jersey . - New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick has long been a fan of trick plays. Romelu Lukaku Belgium Jersey . Vancouver is 0-2-1 over its last three games and has dropped the first two tests of a five-game homestand in regulation. The slide has damaged the clubs already fragile playoff hopes, and the Canucks enter Saturday seven points out of the Western Conferences last postseason berth with only five games left on their schedule. NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Canada continues to impress at the Cyprus Cup, defeating England 2-0 Monday to advance to the final of the womens soccer tournament. Captain Christine Sinclair and substitute Brittany Timko scored for the ninth-ranked Canadians, who improved to 3-0 at the tournament and 5-1 this year. Canada has outscored its opposition 4-0 in Cyprus, all the more impressive considering the women have not played since the Four Nations Tournament in China in January. Sinclair opened the scoring late in first-half injury time, inititiating the play with a run down the left side and then feeding Diana Matheson. English goalkeeper Karen Bardsley made the save but couldnt hang on and Sinclair jumped on the rebound. In the 55th minute, Timko took a pass from Candace Chapman and half-volleyed a shot over Bardsley and under the crossbar. England had a goal disallowed in the 76th minute when Faye White was ruled to have been illegally leaning on Canadian defender Emily Zurrer as she headed home Alex Scotts centre. Canada had needed a win or draw to advaance to Wednesdays final against the Netherlands, who finished atop Group A. Nacer Chadli Belgium Jersey. The Dutch are ranked 15th in the world. England (1-2) is ranked 10th in the world and, according to coach Hope Powell, played its best game at the tournament despite the loss. Both teams are headed to this summers World Cup. Canadian coach Carolina Morace also noted that England has a "very strong" womens league. "And they are in the middle of their season and so they are more pepared than us. It was an important win." Morace was happy with the performance, given her team succeeded in its strategy of clogging up the midfield when the English had the ball. Canada played a 4-1-4-1 formation with Sinclair as the lone striker and Carmelina Moscato as a holding midfielder. Morace gave Moscato, Melanie Booth, Chelsea Stewart and Desiree Scott their first starts of the tournament, resting Jonelle Foligno, Melissa Tancredi, Kaylyn Kyle and Marie-Eve Nault. "Their replacements played very, very, very well," Morace said. cheap nfl jerseys cheap jerseys cheap jerseys cheap jerseys cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '
