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(SportsNetwork. Authentic Charles Woodson Jersey .com) - The Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers have always made a name for themselves through dominating defenses, but this season it was record-breaking offensive showings that helped get the rivals to the playoffs. Quarterbacks Ben Roethlisberger and Joe Flacco will again lead the charge on Saturday night when the Ravens visit Heinz Field looking for their first postseason victory over the Steelers. Joe Greene, James Harrison, Troy Polamalu, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed are just a few names that come to mind when discussions about the Steelers and Ravens take place, but both teams set franchise records this season in points and yards. Behind an excellent effort from Roethlisberger, which included him becoming the first player in NFL history to throw six touchdown passes in back-to-back weeks, the Steelers set new marks in 2014 with 436 points and 6,577 yards. They ranked second in the league with 411.1 yards per game and seventh with 27.3 points per game. The Ravens were right behind with 25.6 points per game and ranked 12th with 364.9 yards per game. In all, Baltimore set new club records with 409 points and 5,838 yards. Baltimore won three of its final four games of the regular season to earn a wild card spot, yielding 13 points or fewer in each victory to finish at 10-6. The Ravens were fourth against the run and eighth in total defense while allowing 18.9 points per game to rank sixth in the NFL. Still, the Ravens needed a little help to make the postseason for the sixth time in seven seasons as they needed to couple last Sundays 20-10 win over Cleveland with Kansas Citys 19-7 triumph over San Diego. That put Baltimore back in the playoffs after sitting out in 2013. It feels good. I remember sitting at home last year, a week from now, and it didnt feel very good, said Flacco. So, that at least wont be happening this year, and it feels very good. Its a great locker room right now, and weve just got to do all we can to go get ready, have fun this week and get ready for another challenge. Its a big challenge for the Ravens, who are 0-3 versus the Steelers in the playoffs. All three setbacks have come in Pittsburgh. It is just going to be another one of those great moments in the Ravens- Steelers rivalry that we are looking forward to, said Ravens coach John Harbaugh. Its another playoff game there. Wed like to win one of those one of these days in their place, and were going to do our darndest to try to pull that off Saturday night. Baltimore has split 14 meetings with Pittsburgh in the regular season since Harbaugh took over as coach in 2008 and 10 of the those meetings have been decided by three points or fewer. That was not the case when the Ravens last visited the Steelers, a 43-23 win for Pittsburgh in which Roethlisberger threw six touchdown passes and 340 yards without getting picked for a 136.6 passer rating. Pittsburgh comes into this meeting having captured the AFC North for the first time since 2010, doing so thanks to a 27-17 win over second-place Cincinnati last weekend. Pittsburgh went 11-5 and brings a four-game winning streak into its first playoff meeting with Baltimore since a 31-24 victory in the 2010 divisional playoffs. Its typical AFC North ball. We take a lot of pride in being from the North. I look forward to it. Its going to be typical Steelers-Ravens. said Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, who has guided Pittsburgh to a pair of wins over Baltimore in the playoffs. Pittsburgh is back in the postseason for the first time in three years following a pair of 8-8 seasons and won the AFC North for the fourth time in Tomlins eight seasons as coach. The Steelers have won nine of their last 12 postseason games, but could be without running back LeVeon Bell for this game after he suffered a right knee injury in the third quarter against the Bengals. That could be a major loss for the Steelers as Bell amassed over 2,000 yards from scrimmage this season while accounting for 11 total touchdowns. WHAT TO WATCH FOR Injuries always play a key part in postseason football and the Steelers face a big one with the potential loss of Bell, who led the AFC with a club-record 2,215 yards from scrimmage. He ran for 1,361 yards and his 564 receiving yards were the most by a Pittsburgh running back in team annals. In fact, Bell joined Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk as the only players in NFL history with at least 1,300 yards rushing and 850 yards receiving. If Bell cant go, Roethlisberger may be forced to air it out even more without his top safety target as Bell was second on the club with 83 receptions. Its the playoffs. You always have to take more. Theres a sense of urgency from all of us. Were not going to rule anybody out yet. Im not a doctor but well see what happens, said Roethlisberger, who is 10-4 all-time as a starting quarterback in the playoffs. Roethlisberger had an excellent season, setting new club records with 408 completions, 4,952 passing yards and a 67.1 completion percentage. His passing yards tied Drew Brees of New Orleans for the NFL lead and Roethlisberger matched his own club record with 32 touchdown passes set in 2007. Wide receiver Antonio Brown played a big part in Roethlisbergers season, leading the NFL with 129 catches and 1,698 receiving yards. Both of those also set club records as did Browns 13 touchdown receptions. Consistency is a big part of Browns game as he has at least five catches and 50 receiving yards in an NFL-record 32 straight games. He had a late 63-yard TD reception from Roethlisberger last weekend and also added a 71-yard punt return for a score. Antonio Brown is gifted. He runs all the routes; hes not just a deep threat, hes a route runner; reverses; as a punt returner, as we saw in the Cincinnati game last week. Hes a multi-dimensional guy that can score at any point in time, noted Harbaugh. The Ravens may be able to zero in closer on the QB-WR duo should Bell be unable to play. That would likely leave the bulk of the carries for undrafted rookie Josh Harris. Dri Archer could also see touches and the Steelers this week signed Ben Tate, but Tomlin admitted it may take more than one guy to help fill Bells production. LeVeon contributes in a lot of ways. When youre talking about replacing an impact guy like him its not a one-man job. It never is. Its a multiple-man job and it might be a multiple-man job across positions, said Tomlin. The Ravens were excellent against the run this season, but lost Jimmy Smith and Asa Jackson to injury among others and allowed 248.7 yards per game through the air. That ranked 24th in the NFL, but Baltimore also tied for second with 49 sacks. No NFL duo had more quarterback takedowns this season than Ravens linebackers Elvis Dumervil and Terrell Suggs. Dumervil produced a club-record 17 sacks and Suggs finished with 12. Suggs has 12 career playoff sacks, tied with Hall of Famer Reggie White for third all-time. Baltimore rookie defensive tackle Timmy Jernigan has his status for the game in doubt due to a foot injury, but the Ravens do catch a break as talented defensive tackle Haloti Ngata is eligible to return from a four-game suspension for violating the NFLs performance enhancing drug policy. The 30-year-old had 31 tackles in 12 games with two sacks and a pair of interceptions. I just feel like I owe these guys, said Ngata of his teammates. So, Im just going to do whatever I can to help the team, and Im definitely just ready to get back out there again. Said Roethlisberger of Ngata, Hes tough. He can the run. He can rush the passer. You dont usually get that from an interior guy. Usually thats the outside guys. Just the physical presence that he is, is what makes him so good. As Baltimore yielded just 19 sacks on the season, Flacco was able to set career highs with 3,987 passing yards and 27 touchdown passes. Wide receiver Torrey Smith was on the receiving end of 11 of those, ranking second in team history behind Michael Jacksons 14 in 1996, while first-year Raven Steve Smith led the team with 79 receptions and 1,065 yards. Running back Justin Forsett had a career-high 1,266 rushing yards for the Ravens and his 5.4 average yard per carry led the NFL. However, he had been held to just 67 yards rushing the previous two games before ripping off 119 versus the Browns. We have to be a good running team, because thats who we think we are, declared Harbaugh. Like the Ravens, the Steelers were solid against the run (100.3 YPG to rank sixth in the NFL) but yielded 253.1 passing yards per game and 23.0 points per contest. Still, linebacker Lawrence Timmons is coming off a Pro Bowl season with a club-high 132 tackles, defensive end Cam Heyward tied for the team lead with a career-best 7 1/2 sacks and cornerback William Gay returned all three of his interceptions for touchdowns. Pittsburgh has a pair of solid veteran defenders it can lean on in Harrison and Polamalu. Harrison has 6 1/2 sacks in 13 career playoff games along with a 100-yard pick six versus Arizona in Super Bowl XLIII, while Polamalu has three career postseason interceptions. Among those is a 40-yard pick-six versus Baltimore on Jan. 18, 2009. OVERALL ANALYSIS The only thing better than playoff football is playoff football between division rivals and the Steelers and Ravens should put forth an epic battle regardless of whatever struggles they had this season. Its a great challenge, said Harbaugh. We love this rivalry. We love being a part of it. Weve said that many times before, and I believe they feel the same way about it. This is probably what the NFL wanted more than anything to see these two AFC North teams go at it. I like to think were different. I like to think were still moving up but Im sure theyll say the same thing about themselves, said Roethlisberger. This game becomes a little less cut-and-dry with the potential absence of Bell, but home-field advantage should be huge for the Steelers. After all, there is a reason that the Ravens are 0-3 in the Steel City during the postseason. The Steelers have won four straight home playoff games at Heinz Field, going 7-3 all-time there in the postseason since it opened in 2001. Given Pittsburgh is the more consistent offensive threat, it should be able to improve on that record this Saturday. Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Steelers 27, Ravens 23 Authentic Keon Hatcher Jersey . He says he will have the operation Wednesday and be ready in time for training camp in September. Bernier missed five games in March due to the injury. 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Seguin leads the NHL with 25 goals and has 11 and seven assists in his last 12 games, including six points during Dallas four consecutive victories. The Stars (14-13-5) are 12-7-3 when he records at least a point. Seguin sparked his team with a superlative performance in Sundays 6-5 shootout win over Edmonton, helping Dallas erase a 5-2 deficit in the second period after it surrendered four straight goals. Seguin assisted on Jamie Benns goal with 21 seconds left in the period and scored twice in the third to force overtime. Seguin also scored in the shootout and Shawn Horcoff had the winning goal in the eighth round of the tiebreaker. It was a gutsy effort, Benn said. We laid an egg in the second period and we found a way to grind it out for 20 minutes and found a way to win the shootout. We have a lot of character guys in here and we really wanted to finish this road trip off with two points. The third period has typically been the worst for Dallas, which is minus-16 in that period compared to plus-five in the first two. Weve had a few games in the past where weve been down a goal or two in the third and we havent had much of a push, but I thought we dominated the game in the third period, Seguin said. The Stars are trying to win five straight for the first time since April 5-13, 2013. Theyve won five of seven at home after starting the season 1-5-4 there. Toronto (19-12-3) has allowed 15 goals during a season-worst three-game losing streak, a slide thats followed a season-best six-game win streak in which it surrendered 10 goals. Jonathan Bernier allowed 10 goals in losing the first two games of the skid, and James Reimer wasnt much better in giving up four goals on 34 shots in Sundays 4-0 loss at Chicago. The Maple Leafs, who lead the league with 3.3 non-shootout goals per game, couldnt get one by Antti Raanta on 34 shots, including 15 in the third period. 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Canadiens at Islanders - 7pm et/4pm pt (TSN Radio 690 Montreal) The New York Islanders hope to carry their winning streak into the Christmas break, as they shoot for a fifth straight victory in Tuesdays home battle against the Montreal Canadiens. Chad Johnson will get the start between the pipes for the Islanders while Carey Price will be in net for the Canadiens. The Canadiens, who enter today tied with Tampa Bay for first place in the Atlantic Division, won four times on their recent five-game homestand and they hope to keep up the pace in Tuesdays road test. However, Montreal has done most of its damage this season at home, where it is 13-4-1 compared to an 8-7-1 mark as the guest. The Canadiens enter tonight having lost three straight and five of their last six road tilts. After having a three-game win streak snapped on Thursday with a 2-1 loss to Anaheim, the Habs rebounded with Saturdays 4-1 triumph against Ottawa. Montreal scored four unanswered goals to beat the visiting Senators, who grabbed a 1-0 lead early in the first on a short-handed tally. Brandon Prust and Brendan Gallagher scored in the first and second periods, respectively, and Tomas Plekanec and Alex Galchenyuk scored third-period markers to put the game away. We may hit a few bumps along the way, but were working hard and we try to go out there and have fun, Galchenyuk said of his line. Price settled in to make 24 saves after allowing a goal to Erik Condra just 2:50 into the game. Tonights test marks the start of a five-game road trip for the Habs, who will continue the swing Monday at Carolina. The Habs and Isles are meeting for the first of three scheduled encounters in 2014-15. Montreal took two of three from New York last season, but the Isles are 4-2-1 in the last seven encounters. The Canadiens have won two straight and three of their last four at Nassau Coliseum. The Islanders, who are sitting second in the Metropolitan Division, have won four straight overall and three in a row on home ice. New York can match its longest win streak of the season with another victory tonight before getting three days of rest for the upcoming holiday. After tonight, the Isles wont play again until visiting the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday. New York is coming off Saturdays 3-1 win over visiting Tampa Bay. The victory was the Isles 10th in 11 home games and pushed the clubs record at Nassau Coliseum this season to 13-3-0. The Islanders scored a pair of goals in a 12-second span late in the third period to overtake the Lightning. John Tavares whistled a wrister from the slot past Andrei Vasilevskiy with 3:09 remaining to tie the game at 1-1. Travis Hamonic then put a wrister on net from the right point, which was re- directed by Anders Lee into the top left corner to put the Islanders in front. We knew what we were doing with the control of the game, Lee said. We were playing the way we wanted. Nikolay Kulemin added an empty-net goal for New York, which outshot Tampa Bay 48-21. Jaroslav Halak made 20 saves for the win. Coyotes at Oilers - 8pm et/5pm pt The Arizona Coyotes have been very true to their current position in the standings over the last month. Dating to Nov. 23, theyve won twice and seen 12 of their 13 Western Conference opponeents distance themselves. Authentic Tank Carradine Jersey. The only stragglers are the Edmonton Oilers, who have provided the Coyotes with both of those wins and could again lend a hand Tuesday night at Rexall Place. Its part of a much longer run of success in the series for the Coyotes (11-18-4), who havent lost to the Oilers (7-20-7) in regulation since Jan. 25, 2011. The 14-0-3 stretch includes four wins this season, and Arizona can now complete the sweep. Thats all Dave Tippetts team has going for it at the moment during a 2-8-2 run. Arizona has scored 13 goals in the last eight games. We just have to find a way to score, defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson said. But, I mean, thats not going to cut it. Its considerably better than the Oilers, who are 1-12-6 dating to Nov. 11. Edmonton - 1-16-6 against the West - at least got some offense going in Sundays 6-5 shootout loss to Dallas. Taylor Hall had two goals and an assist, Mark Arcobello scored twice and Teddy Purcell had a goal and two assists. Its all part of a concerted effort to get to the net and cause more traffic in front of opposing goaltenders, and its resulted in eight goals in two games after Edmonton scored just six over the first five games of the skid. For whatever reason we werent doing it consistently enough and we werent getting the results, Purcell told the teams official website. The last couple of games we have been scoring more and its not a coincidence that were going to the net. Hall had gone his previous 11 games without a goal, a career-worst drought, but he has 11 points in his last eight games against the Coyotes. The clubs main focus could now shift to fixing a leaky back end that allowed for a 5-2 lead to slip away. The Oilers have allowed nine goals in two games and 24 in seven. We have to develop mental toughness as a group, interim coach Todd Nelson said. Weve got to work on things in practice with our structure, but it comes down to compete and just refusing to let bad habits creep in. The Coyotes needed two hands to count their bad habits in Mondays 7-1 loss in Vancouver. Mike Smith allowed four of the goals on 11 shots, falling to 0-4-0 with a 5.05 goals-against average over his last five games. Smith is 10-1-1 with a 2.65 GAA in 14 career games against Edmonton. Devan Dubnyk allowed the final three against the Canucks on 29 shots. The former Edmonton goaltender is 1-3-1 with a 3.29 GAA over his last seven games, but hes 2-0-0 with a 0.96 GAA and .970 save percentage against the Oilers this season. Edmontons Viktor Fasth could get a shot at ending an 0-6-1 stretch. Hes 0-2-1 with a 4.26 GAA against the Coyotes. Ben Scrivens allowed five goals against Dallas and has a 2.95 GAA over an 0-3-2 stretch. Hes 0-2-1 with a 3.31 GAA in the season series. Arizonas Mikkel Boedker has five goals and two assists in the four previous meetings this season and 13 points over the last eight matchups. Sam Gagner, who moved to the slightly more favorable side of the Pacific Division rivalry prior to the start of the season, has been limited to an assist in four games against his former team. Jets at Blackhawks - 8:30pm et/5:30pm pt (TSN Radio 1290 Winnipeg, TSN3) As the Chicago Blackhawks look to continue surging at home, their hearts remain heavy following the sudden passing of a popular member of the organization. Playing through their grief, the Blackhawks try to win nine straight home games for the second time in three seasons Tuesday night against the Winnipeg Jets. Hours after learning of the death of 34-year-old assistant equipment manager Clint Reif, Patrick Kane had a goal with two assists, Patrick Sharp added three assists and backup Antti Raanta made 31 saves in Sundays 4-0 home victory over Toronto. In his ninth season with the Blackhawks (23-9-2), Reif was found unresponsive in his home Sunday morning. He was with the team Saturday night for their 3-2 shootout loss at Columbus. Its not every day that you have to go through something like that, defenseman Duncan Keith, a close friend of Reif, told the Blackhawks official website. As the organization continues to process the situation, the players feel as if theyve lost one of their own. (Reif) was just a selfless person, said captain Jonathan Toews, who has four goals and seven assists during a six-game home point streak. He was never thinking about himself, (always) thinking about how he could help others. Hes part of our team. He might as well have been wearing one of these sweaters. With Reif on their mind, the Blackhawks won for the 16th time in 20 games and improved to 12-3-1 at the United Center. In its last eight home contests, Chicago owns a 33-14 goal advantage, has a power-play goal in four straight and killed 22 of 24 penalties. The Blackhawks won nine straight during the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season. Kane has four goals with six assists during a six-game overall point streak, and five with eight while also recording at least a point in six straight at home Raanta, who recorded his third career shutout, has a 1.60 goals-against average during a five-game winning streak - all at home - but its uncertain if hell make his first appearance against the Jets (17-10-7) with Corey Crawford back from missing eight games with a leg injury. Crawford, who made 17 saves in his return Saturday, stopped 44 of 47 shots while Chicago dropped the last two at home versus Winnipeg. Former Blackhawk Michael Frolik scored on Crawford 20 seconds into the Jets 1-0 road win Nov. 2, the lone matchup this season. Winnipeg got 33 saves from backup Michael Hutchinson, who has a 1.39 GAA during a 4-0-2 road span beginning with that contest. The Jets are amid a 3-0-3 road stretch, but look to bounce back after blowing a two-goal lead in Sundays 4-3 overtime home defeat to Philadelphia. It was the second game Winnipeg played without Mark Stuart (lower-body injury), who joins other injured defensemen Jacob Trouba, Zach Bogosian and Toby Enstrom. All of whom likely wont return until next month. Were just starting this process, Jets coach Paul Maurice said of dealing with another injury along the blue line. It will be a great test (Tuesday). If you kick the puck into the neutral zone on Chicago all night, theyre going to get too many chances. 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