games.Frans Nielsen said no one in the Team Europe locker room feels that they are done.Third [goal] was tough. Because we w

NEW YORK -- Captain John Tavares thinks the New York Islanders have room for improvement, even after winning three of four games.It needs to happen fast with whats next on the schedule.Tavares had two goals and an assist, Johnny Boychuk scored for the second straight game and the Islanders beat the Minnesota Wild 6-3 on Sunday night.Calvin de Haan, Alan Quine and Thomas Hickey also scored to help New York get its highest scoring total of the year.The Islanders are 3-3-0 and face the first-place Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday and defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday.I still think we can get a lot better, Tavares said. We still havent gotten the power play going. Five-on-five certainly good to see a few go in for a lot of guys. ... So build on it and get ready for a tough week coming up.Thomas Greiss stopped 26 shots for his first win in two starts this season.Islanders rookie Anthony Beauvillier had two assists, giving the 19-year-old at least a point in three straight games.He played well, New York coach Jack Capuano said. I think hes going to be a good player in this league for a long time. He just plays with tenacity, grit and determination in his game.New York failed on its lone power play, falling to 1 for 15 on the season.Zach Parise scored twice for Minnesota to top 300 goals for his career, and Nino Niederreiter also scored. Second-string goalie Darcy Kuemper made 27 saves.Trailing 1-0 early in the second period, the Islanders took the lead with three goals 3:08 apart.Tavares got a pass in the slot from Josh Bailey and fired it in for his second of the season at 4:23. Then, de Haan fired a wrist shot from beyond the left faceoff circle past Kuemper for his first of the season 34 seconds later. Boychuk capped the flurry and made it 3-1 at 7:31 when he fired a slap shot from the right point past Kuempers glove side.After getting denied in close by Greiss twice earlier in the period, Parise pulled the Wild within one with 7:23 left. Greiss appeared to stop a slow puck before it crossed the line, but a video review showed it was across just before the goalie knocked it away with his right pad. It gave Parise 20 goals in 48 career games against the Islanders.I had no idea, really, Parise said of the goal. Even after they reviewed it, I was standing behind the net, and one of the linesmen asked me, `Did that go in? and I said `I dont think so. It really caught us off guard. I didnt see it cross and hit the back of his leg.The Islanders put the game away in the third. Quine took a pass from Beauvillier, skated forward and fired a shot past Kuemper at 6:29 to restore New Yorks two-goal lead. Hickey pushed the lead to 5-2 with a wrist shot just over two minutes later.The goals by Boychuk, de Haan and Hickey gave the Islanders five goals by defensemen in the last two games, after Boychuk and Dennis Seidenberg scored in the 3-2 win over Arizona on Friday night.Niederreiter, the No. 5 overall selection by the Islanders in the 2010 NHL draft, pulled the Wild within two with 2:48 left for his seventh point (four goals, three assists) in seven games against his former team.Tavares added an empty-netter with 1:43 left to cap the scoring. Andrew Ladd, the Islanders top free agent signing in the offseason, had an assist for his first point with New York.After a scoreless opening period, Parise got the Wild on the scoreboard at 1:15 of the second with his 300th goal and first this season.Game notes Coming off a 2-1 OT loss at New Jersey on Saturday night, the Wild played the first of 13 sets of back-to-backs this season. ... Minnesota lost for the first time when scoring at least three goals. ... New York D Ryan Pulock was placed on IR on Saturday and is expected to miss 4 to 6 weeks with a lower body injury. Pulock lasted only five shifts in the first period of his season debut in Fridays 3-2 win over Arizona before his injury. ... New York announced LW Eric Boulton cleared waivers and was assigned to Bridgeport of the AHL. ... The Islanders improved to 3-1-0 at home against Western Conference teams this season, and 15-1-2 against West teams at Barclays Center since moving to Brooklyn before last season.UP NEXTWild: At Boston in the third game of a four-game trip.Islanders: Host Montreal on Wednesday night in the conclusion of a five-game homestand.---Follow Vin Cherwoo at www.twitter.com/VinCherwooAP Cheap Fake Shoes Online . The move comes after the Canadiens were approached by the Buffalo Sabres for permission to speak to Dudley - a former Sabres player and head coach. 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TORONTO -- Even in defeat, there is something dignified, maybe even inspiring, about Team Europe.For much of Game 1 of this World Cup of Hockey best-of-three finals Tuesday night, there was a sense not of anticipation but of boredom -- not just from the fans at the Air Canada Centre but from host Team Canada as well.This, after all, is the World Cup of Hockey finals few predicted and even fewer, it appears, wanted.Everyone in attendance, except maybe those few folks in the upper concourse with Team Europe jerseys, knew in advance not just the outcome of the game but also the manner in which Canada would win. That manner would be in the form of a shellacking.It has been the backstory since Team Europe defeated favored Sweden in overtime Sunday afternoon in semifinal action.How could they beat Canada? Simple answer: They couldnt.How could they avoid being embarrassed? Simple answer: They couldnt.In spite of all that, it appeared Team Europe was interested in something else entirely, and that single-mindedness gave us a strangely compelling and wholly unexpected 3-1 victory by Canada.Even after giving up a goal by Brad Marchand on Canadas first shot of the game, Team Europe did something no other team has done in this tournament. They played their game -- not Canadas.Even when they fell behind 2-0 on Steven Stamkos first goal of the tournament after a grisly turnover by Team Europe defenseman Zdeno Chara, Team Europe pushed the pace.They played smart. They were patient. They forechecked with great diligence. For the first time in the tournament, Canada had to rely on goalie Carey Price to keep things under control.At the end of the second period, it was 2-1 after Tomas Tatar scored his third goal in two games for Team Europe.It was finally around the midway point of the third period, after a particularly impressive sequence for Team Europe, that the slumbering crowd, seemingly oxygen-deprived for the previous two-and-a-half periods, noticed that the outcome wasnt all that assured and the expected crushing of Team Europe wasnt going to happen according to plan and actually made their presence felt.Patrice Bergeron scored an insurance marker, and Canada won Game 1, as they were expected to, even if many Canadian players expressed disappointment at their play.We didnt play our best -- thats for sure, Canadian defenseman Drew Doughty?said. They played well, though. We kind of had spurts where we really let them outplay us.Head coach Mike Babcock agreed.I thought they were betterr than us for long stretches of the game, the routinely blunt Canadian said.ddddddddddddJust as I wasnt sure whether this would it be an embarrassing rout, sucking the last of the air out of the event, I likewise werent sure just how Team Europe would respond to Game 1. What was impressive was it seemed to be equal parts defiance and excitement.I think it gives us a lot of optimism, Team Europe defenseman Mark Streit?said. Before the game, we didnt really know how were going to start, what kind of game its going to be.The mindset is not that you want to have a close game, he added. The mindset is you want to win the game. You know we dont really care what people think or fans think. We know what we can do. We know what kind of potential we have on our team.If it seems like the latter half of this tournament has been a total love-in for Team Europe head coach Ralph Krueger, well, get over it. From the opening shift, Europe showed they werent the least bit afraid of Canada, driving the net and drawing a penalty.Krueger insisted there are lots of good things that can be taken out of Tuesdays game. But make no mistake: His players are ticked off.Were very angry right now, which is a good thing, but we also are confident with what we felt today, Krueger said. Im sure were going to come out fighting very strong in Game 2.As he pointed out, in a best-of-three series, it doesnt matter?what order you win your two games.Frans Nielsen said no one in the Team Europe locker room feels that they are done.Third [goal] was tough. Because we were right there, and we played well, said Nielsen, one of the teams best forwards in the tournament. But same time, this for sure gives the group a lot of confidence, and I think we have a feeling in there that this is far from over. We know we can go out there and take a game, take the next one and make this a one-game series.OK, so heres the thing. Canada will likely win Game 2 on Thursday and take home that weird trophy that was trotted out on the ice before Tuesdays game. They should. Theyre the better team, even if they might have played their poorest game of the tournament Tuesday. Maybe on Thursday theyll win by four or five.But until that happens, Team Europe deserves more than theyve been given here. They deserve our attention and our respect.At the very least, Im pretty sure theyve gotten that from Team Canada. ' ' '