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| Description | LAS VEGAS — The Vegas Golden Knights finish the regular-season home schedule of their inaugural season on Saturday night against the San Jose Sharks with a number of Fan Appreciation Week promotions. Among other things Authentic Patrick Omameh Jersey , after the game, players will hand-deliver their game-worn jerseys to select fans. And those could prove to be quite valuable if Vegas (49-22-7, 105) can garner at least one point against the Sharks. The Golden Knights, who have already earned a berth in the Stanley Cup playoffs, can clinch the Pacific Division title with one more point in their final four games. And what better place to do it than at T-Mobile Arena before finishing the regular season with a three-game western Canadian road trip to Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary? “We’re trying to get as many points as we can,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said. “Somebody told me we’re one point away from clinching our division. That’s what the goal is. Let’s keep battling hard and playing hard and win as many games as we can.” It will be a quick turnaround for Vegas, which needed overtime on Friday night before defeating the St. Louis Blues, 4-3, as Jonathan Marchessault scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner 22 seconds into the extra period. The win helped to rinse some of the bad taste out of the mouths of the Golden Knights, who lost to Arizona, 3-2, at home in a lackluster performance two nights earlier. “Tonight, I was really happy with our performance, the way we competed and battled,” Gallant said. “I knew St. Louis was going to play that type of hockey game. They’re a team fighting for points, fighting for playoff position so you knew they were coming in hard. I was happy with it because it looked like a playoff game tonight.” San Jose (44-24-10 Chase Edmonds Jersey Elite , 98) also has a lot riding on the contest. The Sharks, coming in off a tough 5-3 loss at Western Conference-leading Nashville on Thursday night, can clinch a playoff berth for the 13th time in 14 years with a victory. “We’ve been playing playoff hockey I think for the last 10 or 15 games now,” defenseman Brenden Dillon said. “With this streak we have going (9-1-1), we’ve really put an emphasis on every night on not where the teams are in the standings and just being big-time games and showing up.” “I think we’ve felt all year that we can play with anybody,” San Jose coach Peter DeBoer said. “We still don’t have our whole lineup out there yet but I don’t think there’s any doubt that we can play with anybody else.” San Jose holds a four-point lead over the Los Angeles Kings for second place in the Pacific Division and has a game in hand. The Golden Knights and Sharks have played three games this season with two of them going into overtime. Vegas won the first meeting, 5-4, in overtime on a goal by Marchessault on Nov. 24 at T-Mobile Arena and followed that up with a 5-3 win at San Jose on Feb. 8. The Sharks won the last meeting on March 22 at home, 2-1, on Logan Couture’s goal 39 seconds into OT. Todd Bowles chuckled for a moment and then just couldn't resist the urge to break from his normally low-key, stoic public persona. The New York Jets coach had just been asked what his initial impressions were of first-round pick Sam Darnold at rookie minicamp Friday 鈥?and Bowles went wild. Well, sort of. "He was great! I want him to play right now!" a smiling Bowles shouted while slamming his left hand on the lectern for emphasis . It was stunning. And made a room filled with wide-eyed reporters laugh. Jets coach Todd Bowles was nothing if not emphatic in answering a question about his first impressions of quarterback Sam Darnold. More from @DWAZ73 on Darnold's first practice with the team: s://t.co/29rsGxtqZj pic.3rzUsi1tGP 鈥?AP NFL (@AP_NFL) May 4, 2018 Bowles has never been one to make bold declarations, especially after just one practice. So the coach jokingly mocked the question 鈥?while providing a video and sound clip like he never has before. Then again, Bowles and the Jets are hoping Darnold someday develops into the type of quarterback the likes of which this franchise has rarely, if ever, seen. "He was good," Bowles said http://www.broncosauthorizedshops.com/authentic-isaac-yiadom-jersey , still smiling. "Obviously, we threw the ball around a little bit and he's going to be getting better." Darnold was the No. 3 overall pick in the draft last week , surprisingly "dropping" into the Jets' lap after being rumored as a potential top overall selection for several months. Instead, Cleveland went with Oklahoma's Baker Mayfield and the Giants took Penn State running back Saquon Barkley at No. 2. That meant the team that has been craving a franchise quarterback since the glory days of Joe Namath had its guy: the 20-year-old Darnold, a could-be savior from USC who could soon be shouldering the pressure of leading the Jets out of a seven-year playoff drought. The kid who oozes California cool knows all about it. "Yeah, I embrace it, but I understand every single day that it's a process," Darnold said before his first practice of rookie camp. "You've got to come in here and earn respect. I'm not going to come in here and demand it." Darnold is fresh-faced, has a terrific head of reddish-blond hair, and should make for a target of companies looking for celebrity endorsers or magazines searching for a cover-boy athlete. Make no mistake, though, he's got an unrelenting competitive streak and lives and breathes football. Just moments after meeting with an overflow crowd of media armed with cameras and lots of questions, Darnold was back at his makeshift stall in the middle of the Jets' locker room, studying his playbook. "Just coming in here and understanding the position that I'm in 鈥?I'm a rookie," Darnold said. "I understand that. But at the same time, I understand that I'm a quarterback and that I've got to be a leader on the field and off it, as well." Darnold will have a chance to win the starting job this summer. His main competition, of course Preston Brown Color Rush Jersey , will be Josh McCown, the soon-to-be 39-year-old veteran who was the starter for most of last season. The Jets also have Teddy Bridgewater, still working his way back from a serious knee injury nearly two years ago, and Christian Hackenberg, a second-rounder in 2016 who has yet to see the field in a regular-season game. "We're giving him every chance," Bowles said of Darnold. "He's going to learn it as he goes. He might get the (first-team) reps as he goes, but we'll make that determination through preseason and see where we are at the end of it. But we're not holding him back. "We're not rushing him, at the same time, but we're not holding him back at all." Darnold was given a small chunk of the playbook to run through during rookie camp, with the team keeping things relatively simple to start. There were some ups 鈥?a few beautifully placed long throws 鈥?and some downs 鈥?two botched snaps and an interception on a tipped pass 鈥?while getting in his first on-field practice since late December. "It's a combination of being nervous," Darnold said, "but at the same time, I think it's more relief than anything just because I haven't been with a team, I haven't been inside the pocket for a long time." While Bowles' response to what he saw from Darnold was intentionally over the top, there's no doubt many Jets fans hope the rookie is under center in Week 1 鈥?and for years to come. Until then, though, Darnold is going about his business the only way he knows how. "Consistency, I think is the biggest thing David Dahl Colorado Rockies Jersey ," Darnold said. "I'm just going to come in here and be consistent every single day. Do what I need to do: lift, eat right, get with coach (Jeremy) Bates, get with Josh and Teddy, learn everything that is installed that day. Just go about it, it's a daily process that I go through. If I treat every single day like it's the most important day, I think that's really where my success comes from." Confident Sam Darnold hits Jets practice field for first time.More from @dwaz73: s://t.co/Xao1G3bP5w pic.W27he03yg5 鈥?AP NFL (@AP_NFL) May 4, 2018 NOTES: The Jets waived RB Akeem Judd. ... The team announced it signed RB Trenton Cannon, a sixth-round draft pick out of Virginia State. ... New York signed seven undrafted free agents: Oklahoma FB Dimitri Flowers, Auburn OL Austin Golson, Jacksonville State CB Reggie Hall, Columbia DL Lord Hyeamang, Auburn OL Darius James, University of British Columbia G Dakoda Shepley, and Texas Tech DL Mychealon Thomas. . | ||||
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