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DENVER -- The Florida Panthers missed on two breakaways in the second period. Reilly Smith made sure they cashed in on their third.Smith scored a short-handed goal to break a third-period tie, and the Panthers beat the reeling Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Friday night.Jason Demers had a goal and an assist, and Michael Matheson also scored for Florida. James Reimer made 30 saves.It came down to a couple bounces and fortunately those bounces were on our side tonight, Smith said.The Panthers finished 1-1-1 on their three-game road trip, which included a shootout loss in Winnipeg on Thursday night.Tough game, emotional game for us last night in Winnipeg, and then the guys came in tonight and dug deep into the tank to pull out as much energy as they could, Florida coach Tom Rowe said. It was real impressive.Jaromir Jagr didnt assist on any of the Florida goals and remains three points behind Mark Messier for second place on the NHLs career scoring list. Jagr has 1,884 points and now returns home for five games as he tries to pass the Hall of Famer.Jagr was on the ice for Demers goal and was stopped on a breakaway early in the second period that would have given Florida the lead. He did draw 4 penalty minutes.The second penalty drawn by Jagr proved a big play for the Panthers. Derek MacKenzies clearing attempt from deep in the Florida zone bounced off the opposite boards and to center ice. Smith picked it up and went in alone on Calvin Pickard, beating him with a backhand at 6:37 of the third.Matheson scored at 10:49 to give Florida a two-goal lead.We are resilient. Playing back-to-back games is always tough, Smith said. It is nice to finish this road trip .500; thats always your goal.Fedor Tyutin scored his first goal of the season to give the Avalanche a 1-0 advantage in the second, but they couldnt build on it. They lost their seventh straight at home and are 4-10-1 at Pepsi Center.Colorado was 0 for 6 on the power play and gave up its first short-handed goal of the season.This is brutal, said Nathan MacKinnon, who assisted on the only Avalanche goal. Our (penalty kill) was good tonight, but our power play was horrible. We didnt make any good plays. We forced everything. We knew they were going to come hard and we werent ready for it.Demers tied it when his skate knocked in his own rebound, and the goal held up after a video review.Colorado called a timeout late in the third and pulled Pickard for an extra skater but couldnt score on Reimer, who is 5-0-1 in his career against the Avalanche.Game notesPickard made 20 saves. ... Avalanche G Semyon Varlamov was scratched for the second straight game due to a groin injury. ... Jagr and Colorados Jarome Iginla have scored 1,369 goals combined. Jagr has 755, which ranks third all-time. ... 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Chicago Bears New Jersey 2019 . - The Oakland Raiders re-signed offensive lineman Khalif Barnes on Friday.RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Atlantic Coast Conference is showing a lot of new offensive looks.The changes start with the four teams that hired new coaching staffs. Next, Boston College, North Carolina State and Pittsburgh hired new offensive coordinators, while Louisville added a co-coordinator behind play-calling head coach Bobby Petrino. Finally, rivals Duke and North Carolina promoted coordinators to add their own touches to their same schemes from a year ago.In all, those 10 teams averaged 39.2 points and 445.2 yards in their openers, many coming against overmatched opponents. And five of the 10 racked up more than 520 total yards, the start of a season-long effort to build those attacks.Its just play to your strengths, said new Wolfpack offensive coordinator Eli Drinkwitz, who was at Boise State last year. Dont get caught up in, `Weve got to do this and weve got to do that. Youve got to play to your strengths and make sure your offense is still moving in the right direction.All the coaching turnover is making things tougher on defensive coaches, too.UNC second-year defensive coordinator Gene Chizik opened against a new staff at Georgia, faces another one this week at Illinois, then plays six of eight ACC games against teams with new head coaches or offensive coordinators.It does make it difficult, because youre looking, really, at a compilation of a lot of things -- a lot of years, a lot of teams theyve been on previously, Chizik said. Youre using your best, educated guess. You dont ever really know until you get in the game and you see exactly whats happening. So that really makes it hard in your first couple of games, for sure.Miami, Syracuse, Virginia and Virginia Tech made the biggest moves by bringing in new coaching staffs. Hurricanes head coach Mark Richt is calling plays for the first time in a decade for an offense that otherwise will look much like last year behind veteran quarterback Brad Kaaya.The changes are much more pronounced for the Orange, Cavaliers and Hokies.New Orange coach Dino Babers is known for strong offenses from his time as a Baylor assistant, and as a head coach at Eastern Illinois and Bowling Green. His Syracuse team is incorporating some of Baylors up-tempo spread with pro-style principles afterr using a spread option, and had 554 yards in the opener against Colgate.ddddddddddddhe Cavaliers ran a deliberate, pro-style offense under Mike London but are speeding up tempo under former BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall and coordinator Robert Anae.The Hokies, similarly, were a huddle and run-first attack under Frank Beamer. Theyre now trying to push the pace under former Memphis coach Justin Fuente and coordinator Brad Cornelsen, using 10 players to run the ball in the opener against Liberty to keep players fresh amid the faster tempo.Coach Fuentes told us that hes going to give a bunch of guys the ball and a bunch of guys a chance to carry the ball, running back Sam Rogers said. I dont really know how theyre going to call the game. Thats up to them. Weve just got to run the play and execute it but we know that a lot of people have chances in this offense, which makes it a lot of fun.At N.C. State, head coach Dave Doeren turned to Drinkwitz to install a control-the-tempo attack to spark an offense that looked stagnant at times last season. The Wolfpack opened this year with 521 yards and 48 points against William & Mary.The changes elsewhere are more subtle.The man Drinkwitz replaced with the Wolfpack, Matt Canada, is now at Pittsburgh to run an attack still built around a powerful running game. The Panthers managed just 261 yards in their opening win against Villanova, though coach Pat Narduzzi said he thought it was more of a case of first-game jitters.The may have been the case and many of the new offenses are still taking shape. But that doesnt mean teams are slowing implementing the changes.Were not trying to take baby steps, Drinkwitz said. Were pushing this thing full speed. Thats what were doing. Were not easing our way into the water.---AP Sports Writers Gary B. Graves in Louisville, Kentucky; Will Graves in Pittsburgh; Hank Kurz in Blacksburg, Virginia; Joedy McCreary in Durham, North Carolina; and Tim Reynolds in Miami contributed to this report.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/aaronbeardap and the APs college football site at http://collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '