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SUNRISE, Fla. -- Shane Harper waited a long time to score his first NHL goal. He liked the feeling so much, he scored a second one.Harper scored his first two NHL goals to lift the Florida Panthers over the Colorado Avalanche 5-2 on Saturday night.A pretty incredible feeling, said the 27-year-old rookie. Im just real excited to get that win, especially with some guys being out of the lineup right now with injuries. It just makes it even more important for everybody else to pick up some slack. Thats what were trying to do. That victory makes it so much better.Harper played in the minor leagues for the past seven years and notched 340 games in the AHL and sometimes wondered if he would ever get that first NHL goal.Theres times when you think like that for sure, Harper said. Ive been pretty confident in myself that it would come. I always thought I just needed to get my shot.Vincent Trocheck and Jonathan Marchessault each had a goal and an assist and Aaron Ekblad also scored a goal for the Panthers while Roberto Luongo made 26 saves.Matt Duchene and Blake Comeau scored goals for the Avalanche. Semyon Varlamov made 33 stops.The Panthers blew the game open in the third period as they scored three of four goals in a span of 2:26.Ahead 2-1, Marchessault skated in on a breakaway and fired the puck between the pads of Varlamov at 4:30 to make the score 3-1. Harper followed with his second goal of the game on a one-timer from in front to stretch the lead to 4-1.Duchene poked in a rebound past Luongo 16 seconds later to close the gap to 4-2.Trocheck slid a loose puck into the net at 6:56 to make the score 5-2 and shared in Harpers excitement.To see him, 27-years-old, finally get his first NHL goal and pop two in the same game, its definitely exciting to see that, Trocheck said.The Panthers took 17 shots and scored two goals in the second period.Florida had a 2-1 lead on the goal by Harper with 2:58 left in the second. Greg McKegg stole the puck from Duchene in the neutral zone and brought it down the left side. McKegg passed to Harper in front and he poked the puck over the glove of Varmalov for his first goal.He found the back of the net twice and that was real good, Panthers coach Gerard Gallant said. The kid played hard, he works hard and going hard to the net and you get rewarded.Colorado played a strong first period but faded in the second and third.Crucial mistakes at crucial times cost us. (It) was not good enough, Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog said.Trailing 1-0, the Panthers evened the score at 1-all on the power-play when Ekblad took a feed from Jagr low in the left circle and one-timed the puck past Varlamov at 1:30. Ekblad recorded his first point of the season.Comeaus power-play goal gave the Avalanche a 1-0 lead at 7:38 of the first. Tyson Barrie shot from the blue line and Comeau tipped the puck past Luongo on the glove side. The goal was the first the Panthers have allowed on the power-play in nine opportunities.A little bit of a roller coaster for us, I think, Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. I like the way the game started, the first period, but we werent able to sustain it.A coachs challenge by Colorado overturned a goal by Jason Demers midway through the first. His slapper got past Varlamov but the officials ruled Vincent Trocheck was offsides before the shot.Colorado is coming off a four-game road trip and wont play until they host Winnipeg on Friday.We need a little rest to get ready for next weekend, Bednar said.Game notes Avalanche C John Mitchell missed the game with a lower-body injury. ... Panthers LW Jussi Jokinen missed the game with a knee injury. ... The Panthers entered the game as the only team in the NHL yet to allow a power-play goal but the streak ended in the first period.UP NEXT:Avalanche: Host Winnipeg Jets on Friday.Panthers: Visit Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday. Corey Dickerson Pirates Jersey . 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Belfort (24-10) needed just 77 seconds to down Henderson in the headlining bout of Saturdays "UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson" event at Goiania Arena in Goiania, Brazil. The fight served as a rematch of the pairs 2006 meeting, which Henderson won by decision. Theyre giving up almost 100 games in finals experience, 70kg in weight and another 100 centimetres in height.But to Penrith prop Leilani Latu, theyre just numbers.And the only ones that matter are those on the scoreboard at fulltime of Sundays NRL elimination final against Canterbury at Allianz Stadium.Its a mental thing for us. Besides Melbourne this year, weve competed against every pack that weve come up against even though weight-wise were not really there, Latu told AAP.To us, theyre just numbers. On the day, itll depend on which forward pack can get it over the other. It doesnt matter if youre taller, bigger or heavier than us, well contend every minute.While the Panthers finished one spot higher than the Bulldogs at the end of the regular season, the week-one finals hosts lag on a number of key categories against their rivals.Canterbury boast a combined 117 finals games worth of experience compared to Penriths 23; a total 1000kg against the Panthers 934kg; and 1524cm to their rivals 1441cm.The key return of Sam Kasiano from his two-game ban for kicking means the Bulldogs have five players over 110kg, compared to Penrith who have only Latu.So on paper, the BBulldogs much-vaunted forward pack has it all over the the Panthers.ddddddddddddPenrith star Trent Merrin said it wasnt just their oppositions renowned size that made them arguably the most dangerous forward pack in the competition.Their size, their brutality and their skill factor that they have amongst that middle pack, he said.Theyre like halves in big bodies. Youve just got to be on your toes and be ready to grind and play that tough style of footy against them.He said Canterburys advantage in finals know-how is also critical, calling the Belmore-based outfit also one of the most consistent teams in the league.They keep putting themselves in that position every year and the more you play in it, the better you get, Merrin said.Theyve just been building that consistency over the years and they feel real comfortable in that sort of arena.BIG DOGS AGAINST THE TOP CATS (Forwards over 110kg):Bulldogs:* Greg Eastwood - 112kg* David Klemmer - 116kg* Sam Kasiano - 130kg* Tim Browne - 111kg* Tony Williams - 120kgPanthers* Leilani Latu - 115kg ' ' '