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BOSTON - Carmelo Anthony and his New York Knicks teammates finally enjoyed a winning feeling again. Dodgers Jerseys China .Anthony scored 22 points, Amare Stoudemire had 20 and the Knicks snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 101-95 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday night.Its always hard when youre climbing uphill, then you get that one game like today. Its kind of like relief, Anthony said. It gives you a chance to feel what winning a basketball game is like.Tim Hardaway Jr. added 16 points and Jason Smith 12 as New York snapped its longest losing streak since the 2005-06 team lost 10 straight from Jan. 28-Feb 13 en route to a 23-59 record.It had been nearly three weeks since the Knicks last win, a 91-83 victory over the lowly Philadelphia 76ers at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 22.Im just happy we won, said a smiling guard Iman Shumpert, who was lost with a dislocated left shoulder in the second quarter. If Ive got to separate my shoulder or dislocated my shoulder to get wins, Ill dislocate it every day. Im just trying to get wins.It was just the Knicks second road win of the season. They won their first, beating LeBron James and the Cavaliers in his return to Cleveland before losing the next 11.Jeff Green had 28 points and Tyler Zeller 19 for the Celtics, who dropped their third straight.Before the game, Boston coach Brad Stevens quickly squashed a question about worrying about a letdown against a struggling opponent without the possibility of its top scorer.He was right.The Celtics turned the ball over 17 times and shot just 43.5 per cent, missing 15 of 22 on 3-point attempts while having trouble stopping Anthony.Anthony, who entered leading the Knicks with 22.9 points per game, missed Wednesdays loss at San Antonio with a sore left knee, but he started after feeling good during a shootaround earlier in the day.Like I said before the game, if he plays or doesnt play, if we dont play well, we dont win, Stevens said.Green was bothered by the Celtics play.I want to win, Green said. Thats what Im frustrated about. I know we have the pieces here.Boston sliced it to 75-73 on the first basket of the fourth quarter, Marcus Thorntons 3-pointer from the right wing, before the Knicks went on a game-breaking 11-0 run over the ensuing 2 minutes. Shane Larkin started the burst with a 3-pointer.Boston was held to just two baskets in the opening 7 minutes of the fourth, missing nine of its initial 11 shots.Anthonys baseline jumper increased it to 90-75 with 5:43 to play.The Celtics made a late charge, closing it to 99-95 on Phil Presseys free throw with 16.8 seconds left, but Anthonys two free throws sealed it.The Knicks shot 55 per cent in the opening half and led 51-46 at intermission.TIP-INSKnicks: G J.R. Smith was out with a sore left heel. He wasnt able to do much (at the shootaround) today, coach Derek Fisher said. It was really sore. He tried it, I think, a day and a half ago. It was too sore and still too sore now. Hell be reevaluated later tonight or tomorrow and well go from there. ... Shumpert had his left arm in a sling and said hell have an MRI Saturday morning. I think Im a pretty strong guy, hopefully all those weights I lifted will pay off, he said. Hopefully just a simple dislocation, rehab and get back.Celtics: Stevens didnt hesitate when asked if he was worried about his teams motivation playing a struggling team. Were not good enough to do that, he said. Its not who youre playing. ... Boston G Avery Bradley was sent home after showing up with a fever. ... G Marcus Smart left the game with a strained left Achilles in the first half.GIVE ME A HAND, ROOKCleanthony Early took Shumperts bag and carried it to the bus for him, but not before nearly dropping a few things out of it with it still open. A rookie, Shumpert laughed.THEFTSThe Knicks had 13 steals in the game — eight in the first half. Boston had three.SIMPLY PLAY BETTERStevens said Boston didnt deserve to win. They were clearly playing very urgent tonight, he said. 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Three days after falling to Hamilton, Abbotsford scored three goals in 53 seconds en route to a convincing 5-1 win over the Bulldogs Saturday in American Hockey League play.SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San Jose Sharks had little time to dwell on losing their lead before Joe Pavelski put them back ahead again.Pavelski scored less than a minute after Minnesota tied the game early in the third period, and Alex Stalock made 18 saves against his hometown team to lead the Sharks to their seventh win in eight games, 2-1 over the Wild on Thursday night.They had just got one, Pavelski said. We felt we were playing good. We couldnt revert to any other way. So we came out that next shift.Brent Burns also scored and Joe Thornton had two assists for the Sharks, who have won five straight at home after a slow start to the season at the Shark Tank.Christian Folin scored his first career goal to tie the game just 45 seconds before Pavelskis goal, and the Wild lost for the 10th time in their past 11 games in San Jose. Darcy Kuemper made 28 saves.When you give up a goal right after you score, it hurts, forward Zach Parise said. When you come up short, something is not good enough.After the teams combined for just one goal in the first 40 minutes, they each scored once in the opening 2 minutes of the third period.Minnesota struck first following a weak clearing attempt from Tommy Wingels that ended up right on Folins stick at the point. Folins blast got through a screen from Jason Zucker to tie it.But the Sharks answered quickly when Thornton set up Pavelski for a one-timer from the top of the circle that beat Kuemper. It was Pavelskis 15th goal of the season and sixth in eight games.Those two obviously have a connection, coach Todd McLellan said. Its a goal scorers goal. He shot it in stride. It wasnt in his wheelhouse but he still put it in the right spot.Stalock, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, made the lead stand up in his first game against the Wild. His best save might have come llate in the third on a one-timer from Jared Spurgeon. Hyun-jin Ryu Dodgers Jersey. .There was traffic in front, Stalock said. He had one place to shoot it, I figured, where there wasnt any traffic. I got a push over a little late but got a piece of it. Luckily enough it stayed in front of me.The Sharks broke a scoreless tie late in the second period after Nate Prosser was sent to the penalty box for interference. Justin Braun fed Burns for a one-timer from the point that appeared to deflect off Spurgeons stick and past Kuemper.Despite getting only 14 shots in the first two periods, the Wild had plenty of chances earlier to get on the board but couldnt capitalize. Kyle Brodziak hit the post on an odd-man rush with Minnesota short-handed in the first period.Logan Couture then made a couple of big defensive plays to keep the game scoreless earlier in the second, deflecting a wraparound attempt by Thomas Vanek and breaking up a 2-on-1 chance by Parise with a strong backcheck. Spurgeon passed on a chance to shoot on that rush before his pass to Parise was broken up.That was the story of the game, Wild coach Mike Yeo said. Youre lucky enough to get one or two 2-on-1s and when we get four 2-on-1s and dont even get a shot off, thats the game.Stalock also made a good save on Jason Pominville later in the second as the Wild failed to convert on numerous odd-man rushes.NOTES: Thorntons two assists gave him 1,220 career points, moving past Jean Beliveau into 39th place on the NHL scoring list. ... Minnesota was without two defencemen with Marco Scandella serving the first game of a two-game suspension and Keith Ballard injured. ... San Jose D Matt Tennyson and F Chris Tierney were called up from Worcester with D Marc-Edouard Vlasic (upper-body) and Fs Mike Brown (lower body) and Matt Nieto (ankle) injured. ' ' '