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SUNRISE, Fla. - Tyson Barrie made the most of his first visit to the Florida Panthers arena as a player.Barrie, whose father Len played for the Panthers from 1999-2001, had a goal and an assist to help the Colorado Avalanche beat the Panthers 4-1 on Thursday night.Nick Holden scored the go-ahead goal in the third period, and Barrie had an assist on the play.I was fortunate my Dad played here and I?was 9 or 10 years old. I was always around the rink and I was always in the locker room, Barrie said. Its nice to come back in this building and have some success.Gabriel Landeskog and Jarome Iginla also scored for Colorado. Semyon Varlamov made 30 saves for the Avalanche, who won for the first time in three games.It was an important win for us and for our confidence, Colorado coach Patrick Roy said. We were OK in the first, but I thought we played better in the second and the third.Aaron Ekblad and Aleksander Barkov scored for the Panthers, and Roberto Luongo stopped 25 shots.Holdens goal, coming in the waning seconds of a power play, broke a 2-2 tie. Holden shot from the high slot and it deflected off the stick of Floridas Scottie Upshall and bounced through traffic past Luongo at 11:03 of the third.Youve got to know in the back of your head that (power-play) time is ticking down. I didnt know the exact time, Holden said. We were just concentrating on getting shots through to the net and kind of get traffic and screens and thats what we did.Iginla added an empty-net goal with 27 seconds left. His goal tied him with Mike Bossy for 20th on the NHL career list with 573.Colorado took a 2-1 lead on when Landeskog was able to slide the puck under Luongos pads at 13:02 of the second.I got a chance to take it to the net and tried to really just get a shot. It felt good to see it go in, Landeskog said.Luongo had the opposite feeling.That second goal, Ive got to stop, Luongo said. Thats a bad play by me.The Panthers tied it at 2-all 23 seconds later when Barkov redirected a pass from Brad Boyes past Varlamov. Barkov has five points in his last six games.The Avalanche took a 1-0 lead on Barries goal early in the first. Barrie skated in unchallenged to the right circle and his wrist shot got past Luongo at 2:11.Luongo was the (backup goalie) when my Dad played here, so it was nice to get one past him tonight, Barrie said.The Panthers tied it a 1 on a goal by Ekblad just as a 5-on-3 power play expired. Ekblad took the puck in the high slot and his wrist shot beat Varlamov on the stick side at 5:15 of the first. The 18-year-old rookie now has five points in his last seven games and 25 points over 42 games.It was the first power-play goal for the Panthers in their past 14 chances over six games. The Panthers played the first of five home games after going 4-2-0 on a six-game road trip.Its tough, I thought after that long trip wed play real good, coach Gerard Gallant said. We just didnt get it done, but I thought the effort was there.NOTES: Luongo is tied for 11th all-time among NHL goaltenders in games played (837). ... Former Major League catcher and 12-time All-Star Mike Piazza dropped the ceremonial first puck. Lebron Basketball Cheap . Dr. James Andrews is to operate next week on the 24-year-old pitcher, who made the AL All-Star team last year. Moore will be the first Rays pitcher to undergo Tommy John surgery since Jason Isringhausen in June 2009. Wholesale LeBron Shoes . -- Oakland Athletics starting pitchers Jarrod Parker and A. http://www.lebroncheap.com/ . - The Toronto Blue Jays have optioned pitchers Kyle Drabek, Chad Jenkins and Sean Nolin to triple-A Buffalo. Cheap Lebrons From China . Price also posted the longest shutout sequence since 1960 at 164:19 minutes. 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The right-hander struggled after winning the honour in 2008 and 2009, but a retooling of his game has begun to pay off and has the San Francisco Giants thinking about the Lincecum of old. After throwing a no-hitter against San Diego 11 days ago, Lincecum took a shutout into the seventh inning Sunday to lead the Giants to a 5-3 win over the Padres. Lincecum (8-5) extended his scoreless streak to 23 1-3 innings before Brooks Conrad hit a solo homer in the seventh to knock him out of the game. The streak started with his second career no-hitter against San Diego on June 25. Lincecum followed that with eight scoreless innings in a 5-0 win over St. Louis on Tuesday. Although this is not the overpowering Lincecum who won the Cy Young in consecutive years, the results are impressive. "Im not going to overpower teams with my stuff," Lincecum said. "Im just going to have to mix my pitches and locations. Im doing a good job of that. Im not missing in big spots with pitches." He allowed one run on three hits, walked four and struck out six. Lincecum has won all three starts this season against San Diego and improved his mark against the Padres to 16-6 in 29 career starts. Lincecum threw his first no-hitter at San Diego on July 13, 2013. "Timmys just been on a good roll," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "How poised hes been, how easy his delivery has been." The Giants have been down this road before with Lincecum since he began struggling after his last Cy Young season and lacked the consistency that had marked the early part of his career. Bochy thinks this recent stretch may last. "Hes reinvented himself," Bochy said. "I think he has a better idea of what he wants to do as far as pitching. Hes become more of a pitcher. It was pure stuff early on in his career. Hes gotten more cerebral with the pitching side of it." Lincecum also believes he may be able to sustain his most recent success as compared to other stretches when it didnt last. "Its just a feeling I have right now," he said. "I look for consistency and this is about as consistent as I have been in the last few years. Hopeefully, this is the start of something good.dddddddddddd" The Giants, who had dropped 18 of 22 games after they lost the opener Friday, won two straight to win only their second series in nearly a month. Brandon Belt drove in two runs for San Francisco and Hunter Pence had three hits, extending his season-best hitting streak to 11 games, and scored three runs. Rookie Joe Panik and Michael Morse each had an RBI. Three relievers combined with Lincecum on a four-hitter. Santiago Casilla pitched the ninth for his third save in six chances. The Padres did not get their first hit off Lincecum until there were two outs in the fourth. Yasmani Grandal hit a two-run homer, his seventh, off former closer Sergio Romo in the eighth inning to cut the Giants lead to 5-3. Rookie Jessie Hahn (4-2) lost his four-start winning streak, allowing three runs on five hits over seven innings in his sixth major league start. The left-hander struck out five and walked two. "In the early innings, they were sitting on my curveball, so I had to make some adjustments," Hahn said. Hahn retired 11 straight batters after he allowed Morses RBI single to fall behind 3-0 in the third. "The second half of his outing was outstanding," Padres manager Bud Black said. "I was really impressed with how Jesse hung in there." Belt singled in a run in the first and had a sacrifice fly in San Franciscos two-run eighth. NOTES: Lincecums career best for scoreless innings is 29 in 2009. ... Giants 3B Pablo Sandoval, who left Saturday nights game with a left elbow bruise after he was hit while swinging at a pitch, did not play. ... The Giants 5-3 win Saturday night in 10 innings was just the clubs third victory since moving to San Francisco in 1958 in which the team won a game with a game-tying homer in the ninth inning and a game-winning home run in the 10th, according to information provided to the Giants by the Elias Sports Bureau. ... Giants RHP Ryan Vogelsong (5-5, 3.86 ERA) is scheduled to face As RHP Jesse Chavez (6-5, 3.23) in the opener of a three-game series at Oakland on Monday. ... The Padres travel to Colorado with RHP Ian Kennedy (6-9, 3.87) going against Rockies LHP Tyler Matzek (1-2, 4.25) in the opener of a three-game set. ' ' '