and Yasir Shah, as they battle for Test form. Pakistans attack

PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Flyers still have that winning feeling.Brayden Schenn scored three power-play goals to lead the Flyers to their eighth straight victory, a 4-2 win over the Dallas Stars on Saturday.Jakub Voracek scored an empty-netter and also had three assists for the Flyers, who matched Montreal for the longest winning streak in the NHL this season.Philadelphia last won eight straight games from Jan. 6-19, 2002.When guys get confident, I think theres always that winning feeling, Schenn said.Schenn recorded his second career hat trick. He also scored three goals on Feb. 29, 2016, against Calgary.Devin Shore had both goals for the Stars.Tied at 1 entering the third period, Dallas went ahead when Shore scored his second goal of the game with 9:28 left.But Schenn tied the game with his second goal of the game that was similar to the first one, a deflection from in front after Voraceks shot from the right side at 16:12.Schenn then put Philadelphia in front with 2:15 left when he scored with a forehand shot on a rebound of Voraceks shot for his seventh goal of the season, resulting in hats flying on the ice.Claude Giroux retrieved a hat for Schenn to save as a keepsake.It was the second straight comeback for the Flyers, who twice responded from two-goal deficits in Thursdays 6-5 win over Edmonton.We have the confidence that if you do it over and over again, you know you can do it every game, Voracek said.Steve Mason made 21 saves for his seventh straight win.When things go your way, they really go your way, Mason said.Philadelphia has received contributions from a variety of areas during the streak. Schenn entered with just three points during the streak, but turned out to be the star this time.Different parts of our game have pushed us over the finish line on different nights, coach Dave Hakstol said.Kari Lehtonen made 18 saves for the Stars, falling to 1-11-3 against Philadelphia.Stars coach Lindy Ruff thought the penalty that set up the tying goal, a cross check on Jamie Oleksiak, was a soft call.I dont see much there, he said.I thought a couple of calls were maybe a little bit light and they still ended up putting it in the back of their net, Ruff added. When you get a call like that, you want to take advantage of it.Voracek had four points, tying his career high, for the second straight game and has 15 points (four goals, 11 assists) during Philadelphias winning streak.Shore gave Dallas a 2-1 lead with 9:28 remaining, scoring just as the Stars power play expired.Antoine Roussel sent the puck toward the net. Shore corralled the rebound at the far post. A sprawling Mason used his stick to stop Shores first attempt, but Shore batted in the loose puck just before Mason could cover it.Radek Faksa almost gave Dallas a two-goal advantage with 4:41 left, but his short-handed attempt on a 2-on-1 break caromed off the post.Weve been on both sides and right now were fortunate to have some lucky breaks, Mason said.That play loomed large as Schenn tied it 53 seconds later.Hakstol said the Flyers are focused on getting better each day rather than the winning streak.It is fun to come to the rink when youre having success, no question about that, he said.Beyond that, I dont know if anybody in our room really gives it much of a second thought. We have another game (Sunday). Were going to show up and try to put another determined effort on the ice.Lehtonen kept it tied 6 1/2 minutes earlier with the save of the game, fully extending his glove to snare Ivan Provorovs drive from the slot. Provorov began to celebrate when it looked as if the puck was headed in the goal.Lehtonens Stars teammates loudly tapped their sticks against the boards after the save.Schenn tied the game at 1 with a power-play goal with 2:42 left in the first period. Schenn scored his fifth of the season on a deflection off Voraceks wrist shot from the side boards. Wayne Simmonds provided the screen of Lehtonen, as the puck went through Simmonds legs and past Lehtonen.Shore gave Dallas a 1-0 lead 7:30 into the game with a backhand that went high over Masons left shoulder. The goal culminated hard work in the offensive zone by the Stars and a poor job of the Philadelphia defense clearing the puck from its goal line. Curtis McKenzie and Adam Cracknell picked up assists on the play.The teams played an even second period that mostly was defensive in nature. Mason turned aside the Stars best two chances, Roussels wrist shot on a rush from close range and Tyler Seguins wrist shot from the high slot.Ruff stuck with a top line of Jamie Benn, Seguin and center Jason Spezza. In Thursdays 5-2 win over Nashville, the trio played together for the first time and combined for eight points. The line didnt register a point against Philadelphia.Game notes The Flyers held a moment of silence in the pregame for former scout and coach Bill Dineen, who died Saturday at 84. ... The teams will wrap up their two-game season series next Saturday in Dallas. ... Schenn and Stephen Johns fought to a draw in the second period though Schenn received a cut on his forehead.UP NEXTStars: At Blackhawks on Sunday night.Flyers: At Red Wings on Sunday night. Cheap Chicago Bears Jerseys .C. -- Glenn Howard needed an extra end to move into the Masters Grand Slam of Curling final. Wholesale Chicago Bears Jerseys . -- Whether Jeremy Hill deserves a prominent role in LSUs offence this early in the season is a matter for debate. http://www.cheapbearsjerseysauthentic.com/ . Thousands of fans at Mosaic Stadium will be cozying up to each other in an effort to stay warm in chilly temperatures and block the Prairie wind that locals say can knock your socks off. Chicago Bears Jerseys China . The showiest items on Calgarys lot were forwards Mike Cammalleri and Lee Stempniak. Both will be unrestricted free agents this summer. Cheap Bears Jerseys . The Redskins announced Monday that the quarterback who led the team to the Super Bowl championship in the 1987 season will serve as a personnel executive. Australias Test-match losing streak may be making headlines, but their neighbours across the Tasman have not fared much better this year. Of nine Tests played in 2016, New Zealand has lost six, winning only the two matches against Zimbabwe. Their four most-recent results have all been losses.Unlike for Australia, however, the losing streak has come overseas, against formidable opposition: the first loss came against South Africa, and the next three in India, where many teams have suffered in the last three years.Now back at home, with a grassy pitch before them and a long summer ahead, coach Mike Hesson has said his team will not dwell on the overseas failures. They will instead aim to fall back on memories of their unbeaten stretch at home between 2013 and 2015.I think weve won seven out of our 11 Tests at home in the last three years, with a couple of draws and a couple of losses, Hesson said. You do that because conditions are familiar to you, and you adapt quicker than other sides.Weve been stressing the fact that we need to prepare for conditions that were more familiar with. Weve got some experience to draw on over the last three or four years. Its a matter of going through that rather than reliving India. Conditions over there were significantly different to what were going to face over here.New Zealands batsmen had had a particularly torrid tour of India, where no one managed a century across three Tests. Their main destroyers on that tour had been spinners R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, who shared 41 scalps between them. Hesson said his batsmen had rebounded mentally since that series, which ended a month ago.The conditions are here very different, so the skillset required is different. We acknowledge that we didnt adapt as well aas we needed to in India.dddddddddddd Hence, we underachieved, especially with the bat. Here, Im very confident the guys know the conditions. There was a period of having to deal with dented confidence, but that was some time ago. At the time we needed to dwell on some of the areas we hadnt performed well in, and weve done that. Then we need to move on - thats the nature of international cricket. When you perform and you win easily, you dont dwell on that either. You move on.The top order will have to contend with the likes of Mohammad Amir, Wahab Riaz and Yasir Shah, as they battle for Test form. Pakistans attack had delivered two Test victories in England this year, and Hesson believes they are a particularly dynamic outfit.Well be challenged by this Pakistan attack, theres no doubt about that, he said. Theyve got an attack that suits all conditions around the world. They swing the new ball, they reverse it, and theyve got a very good spinner. Theyve also got experience in their batting line up. Theyre tough in every condition, so theyre bowling attack is going to pose some challenges for us.The Hagley Oval surface has generally been seam-friendly over the first two days of the Test. Although it had a significant covering of grass two days from the Test, Hesson expected the pitch to settle quickly.The pitch has good pace and bounce, which stays throughout. And I think it turns into a pretty flat surface. Its one of those surfaces where you are going to need to have resources to bowl a lot of overs, rather than think youre going to bowl them out in a session and a half. I dont think its going to be like that. ' ' '