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ANAHEIM, Calif. - Jacob Silfverberg ended a long drought with his first two goals in almost a month, and Patrick Maroon snapped an even longer one to help lead the Anaheim Ducks to their second straight decisive win after half a season of mostly narrow victories.Hampus Lindholm and Silfverberg scored 1:52 apart early in the second period after New Jersey changed goalies due to Cory Schneiders injury, and Corey Perry got his team-high 19th goal in a 5-1 victory Friday night.Obviously, its been a long time, and it felt good to get a couple tonight, said Silfverberg, who had gone 12 straight games without a goal. Ive been struggling a bit lately with getting off shots and getting good shots on the net. Thats the strength I think I have in my game, and its something Ive been looking to get back to. Hopefully I can build off this and start scoring goals more frequently.Silfverberg and Maroon completed the scoring in the final 3:33, helping the Ducks remain tied with Nashville atop the overall NHL standings following the Predators 4-3 win over Washington. Maroons goal snapped a 17-game drought since Dec. 3.When we play for 60 minutes and we all play together, its a sense of what we can do, coach Bruce Boudreau said. When we follow game plans and do the right things, were a good hockey club. When we dont, were just like any other club. There are chances for mistakes, and when you make them, usually theyre in the back of your net.Ilya Bryzgalov faced only 15 shots while earning his first victory in three starts since returning to the Ducks on Dec. 9 as a free agent. He was the backup to Jean-Sebastien Giguere during Anaheims 2007 Stanley Cup championship season.Playing their second straight game without Jaromir Jagr and Tuomo Ruutu, both of whom were back home with the flu, the Devils got their only goal from Martin Havlat.Schneider stopped 14 of 15 shots, but was replaced by backup Keith Kincaid at the start of the second period. Kincaid gave up four goals on 25 shots — two of them in the first 5:08 of the period.I didnt have much time to get ready and I didnt feel very sharp there at the beginning of the second. But as a backup, youve got to be ready at all times and go in there and do whatever is called for, Kincaid said. Its not how I wanted to start the second period, but I got a little more comfortable as the game went on.Matt Beleskey stung Schneider high on the body with a hard, 40-foot snap shot about 20 seconds before Perry opened the scoring at 4:09 of the first. Schneider finished the period, and no X-rays were taken.Hes feeling better right now, but he couldnt go back in, said Devils president and general manager Lou Lamoriello, who took over the head coaching duties after firing Peter DeBoer on Dec. 27.I thought Keith handled the situation as well as he could, Lamoriello added. Its tough going in like that without any warmup or any shots, but its part of the game. They just came right at us. They beat us to the puck and battled us to the puck the first two periods. They are where they are for a reason.The Devils, coming off a 5-3 victory at Los Angeles on Wednesday, havent won consecutive games on the same road trip since opening the season with wins at Philadelphia, Florida and Tampa Bay.NOTES: Anaheim outshot the Devils 27-6 through the first two periods. ... Beleskey was a healthy scratch for Wednesdays 4-0 win over Toronto. ... Perry was coming off his eighth career hat trick Wednesday. ... C Patrik Elias is the only Devils player who has been with them since they beat Anaheim for their third Stanley Cup title in 2003. C Scott Gomez also played for New Jersey in the finals that year, then played with four other teams before rejoining Devils on Dec. 1. ... Devils D Andy Greene has played 46 games this season without scoring a goal, the most by any non-goalie who doesnt have one. His drought goes back 58 games to March 20, 2014, when he scored against Bryzgalov in overtime to give the Devils a 4-3 win over Minnesota. ... The Ducks completed a stretch of eight consecutive home games with a 5-3-0 record. They travel up the freeway Saturday night to face the Stanley Cup champion Kings. Ecco Shoes On Sale Australia . -- Catriona Matthew remained atop the Airbus LPGA Classic leaderboard Friday, birdieing four of the last seven holes to take a one-stroke advantage over Charley Hull into the weekend. 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Lakers, spoke as a representative of current NBA players at a press conference assembled by Sacramento mayor and National Basketball Players Association adviser Kevin Johnson.MONTREAL - Its been a rough season for Brandt Snedeker but the 2012 Fed Ex Cup champion hopes to have his game ready to defend his RBC Canadian Open title in July. Snedekers best result so far this year is a tie for eighth place at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March. He sits 113th in FedEx Cup standings and has dropped to 31st in world rankings — not the results expected from a player ranked fourth in the world only two years ago. "My golf game is not quite where I want it but Im getting closer," Snedeker said Monday on a conference call. "I have another month to get ready." The Canadian Open returns to Royal Montreal for the 10th time July 24-27. It will be the 60th anniversary of the last victory by a Canadian at the national open. The courses club pro Pat Fletcher won in 1954. Tournament director Bill Paul announced that Snedeker, Ernie Els, Graeme McDowell, Luke Donald, Matt Kuchar, Jim Furyk and Hunter Mahan as well as Canadians Graham DeLaet, Mike Weir, David Hearn and Stephen Ames will be there. Snedeker is confident he will find his best game soon. "I go through peaks and valleys," the Nashville, Tenn., native said. "Im not a very consistent player, but you have to ride through the rough patches. "I feel Ive ridden the rough patches out and I feel a hot patch should start soon. Id love to play my best all year, but you have to have the mental fortitude tto fight through it.dddddddddddd" He is entering perhaps the most important part of the schedule, with the U.S. Open at Pinehurst in North Carolina June 12-15 and the British Open at Royal Liverpool in July, followed immediately by the Canadian Open. Snedeker plans to play 10 of the next 12 weeks. Last years Canadian Open victory at Glen Abbey near Toronto was his sixth PGA Tour win and was particularly special because his caddy Scott Vail, is from Oshawa, Ont. "I felt a lot of pressure last year on Sunday trying to pull it out for him," Snekeder said of his caddy of the last eight years, who got to take the Canadian flag from the 18th pin home as a souvenir. "Hes been a good friend for a lot of years." He caught a break when tournament leader Mahan pulled out after two rounds to be with is wife as she delivered a baby. "Golf is a funny thing, you never know whats going to happen," he said. "Any time you win you have breaks go your way. "It gave me a chance and when it happened, I took advantage of it." Snedeker has a strong history at the Canadian Open. He tied for seventh at his first one in 2007, when he was PGA Tour rookie of the year, and tied for fifth in 2009. Hes never played at Royal Montreal, an old-style, tree-lined course in Ile-Bizard, Que., but said he saw it on TV as the Americans defeated the World team in the 2007 Presidents Cup and is looking forward to trying out its Blue course. ' ' '