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Getzlaf set up the winner by stickhandling around Brian Rafalski and skating in on goalie Chris Osgood, who attempted a poke-check that sent the puck fluttering into the air.

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I saw the poke-check coming so I put it over his shoulder. ''

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Martin Brodeur made a rolling poke-check stop on Ales Kotalik to start the tiebreaker and then denied Tim Connolly and Thomas Vanek to seal the win.

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Tallinder was able to elude Brodeur's poke-check to deliver the win for a surging Sabres team that moved to within two points of idle Boston for the eighth playoff slot in the Eastern Conference.

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` ` He came fast so I tried to poke-check him and he went around, so I tried to be solid with my pad and it worked. ''

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I came out wide and saw he came with the poke-check, so I put on the brakes and put it into the open net. ''

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` ` I think he was scared of my poke-check, '' Anderson said.

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After Pavelski and Ribeiro traded first-period goals, San Jose went ahead late in the second when Rivet and Brian Campbell made sharp passes to set up Michalek on a breakaway, which he converted easily after Turco's overeager attempt at a poke-check.

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` ` It was almost a desperation type of poke-check, '' Ellis said.

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Columbus outshot San Jose 26-5 in the first two periods, but Nabokov was impenetrable - even stopping Rick Nash's penalty shot in the second period with a nifty poke-check when the Columbus star got too close.

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