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WASHINGTON - Put Jake Peavy on the San Francisco Giants, and he suddenly turns into quite a post-season performer.Same for a couple of rookies, Hunter Strickland and Joe Panik.Seems that October aura manager Bruce Bochy has cultivated with the Giants rubs off on anyone joining the club.The intense Peavy took a no-hitter into the fifth inning, Strickland and the rest of San Franciscos rested bullpen barely protected a lead, and the wild-card Giants won their league-record ninth consecutive post-season game by beating Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals 3-2 on Friday in an NL Division Series opener.Nobody is scared of the moment, said Peavy, who won the 2007 NL Cy Young Award with San Diego and last years World Series with Boston, but was 0-3 with a 9.27 ERA in five previous starts beyond the regular season. We understand that we might not be, man for man, the favourites.Perhaps they should be.Peavy, the 33-year-old right-hander with the tattoo sleeve on his left arm, finally earned his first post-season win, allowing only two hits in 5 2-3 scoreless innings, and getting plenty of help.Strickland spent much of the season at High-A and Double-A in the minors, and has all of seven major league innings on his resume, but struck out Ian Desmond swinging at a 100 mph fastball with the bases loaded in the sixth after Peavy left, cussing up a storm.Panik provided a nice defensive play at second base to end the seventh and contributed one of San Franciscos three RBI singles.No swinging from the heels for this bunch. No costly misplays in the field, either, such as the passed ball by Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos that led to an unearned run. That was one of a couple examples of jumpy play by a Washington team that won its division and led the NL with 96 wins but has never won a post-season series.Under Bochy, the Giants won the World Series in 2010 and 2012. They have not lost a post-season game since trailing 3-1 against St. Louis in the NLCS two years ago.When the lights are brightest, the stage biggest, the stakes highest, San Francisco comes through.Weve done it so many times now, it seems to be part of our DNA, said Hunter Pence, who stole a base in the fourth and came home on Brandon Belts hit off Strasburg. But I think the thing that we know is: Whats in the past is in the past, and weve got to move forward and weve got to be ready for the game tomorrow. Because if not, theyll jump all over us.Game 2 is Saturday, with Washingtons Jordan Zimmermann a€” who threw a no-hitter in the regular-season finale a€” facing Tim Hudson.Strasburg took the loss in his playoff debut; he was shut down in 2012 to protect his surgically repaired elbow. He showed up with his best material Friday, reaching 99 mph.He gave us a chance, manager Matt Williams said. Jake was a little bit better.The No. 1 overall draft pick in 2009 lasted five-plus innings, allowing eight hits a€” all singles, all to centre or right field a€” and two runs, one earned. He tied for the NL lead this season with a career-high 242 strikeouts, but only managed two, in part because the Giants rarely missed.Wasnt like they were hitting me all around the yard, Strasburg said. Hit it where we werent.Peavy didnt top 92 mph, but that didnt matter. He put pitches where he wanted, often barely over the black edge of the plate.He mixed really well. Hes a very smart pitcher, said catcher Buster Posey, the 2012 NL MVP, who drove in a run. He knows when not to give in.The first hit Peavy allowed was by Bryce Harper in the fifth, a bouncing single off the glove of diving first baseman Belt. As Harper ran through the bag, he yelled, Lets go! But any notion of a rally was quickly silenced when Peavy got Ramos to ground into a first-pitch, 4-6-3 double play, followed by Asdrubal Cabreras inning-ending foul pop.Peavy was lifted with two runners aboard in the sixth, and Javier Lopez loaded the bases with a walk. Bochy turned to Strickland, who, calm as a 10-year veteran, took care of Desmond a€” 8 for 12 with a grand slam and 17 RBIs with the bases full this season a€” on four fastballs, the slowest at 98 mph.He just stepped into as big a fire as you can step into, Pence said about Strickland, and he came up huge.But in the seventh, Strickland served up a pair of 97 mph fastballs that were turned into homers, one by Harper into the third deck, the other by Cabrera, making it 3-2.Bochy knew his relievers were rested after Madison Bumgarners four-hit shutout in the wild-card victory at Pittsburgh on Wednesday a€” a day the Nationals played an intrasquad scrimmage to fight rust.Jeremy Affeldt got the last out in the seventh. Sergio Romo struck out Desmond and got Harper on a grounder to end a threat in the eighth. And Santiago Casilla pitched a perfect ninth for the save.These guys, they have been through it. They have a calmness about them, Bochy said about his bunch. When you have your back as many times against the wall as you can in the post-season, that experience is invaluable.UP NEXTRHP Hudson is 18-5 with a 2.35 ERA in his career against Washington. Only RF Jayson Werth has a good track record: .386, four homers, 12 RBIs. Pence is 8 for 20 with two homers against Zimmermann. Wholesale Air Jordan 4 Canada . According to Yahoo! Sports, the team has reached a five-year deal to play their home games on the roof of the Plaza Hotel and Casino. Cheap Air Jordan 4 Canada Sale .Y. -- Defenceman Ryan Murphy had a goal and an assist and Drew MacIntyre made 24 saves to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New York Islanders 4-2 in an exhibition game Wednesday night. http://www.airjordan4canada.com/ .com) - The Winnipeg Jets placed defenceman Paul Postma on injured reserve Tuesday. Cheap Air Jordan 4 Canada . Their 9-19 record remains identical to the crosstown rivals in Brooklyn and trails both Toronto and Boston in the Atlantic Division. 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Parenteau. he has two years left on his deal at $4 million per year. Craigs List Oilers GM Craig MacTavish told The Edmonton Suns Terry Jones that he would like to add four or five players - with one or two of them via trade and two or three through unrestricted free agency. "It would be nice to get something in place before free agency," said MacTavish, explaining that trades were the first priority. "The managers meeting at the final really gets everybody talking a little bit more. This week will be a busy week for everybody to see what tthe fits are out there.dddddddddddd "We had our pro scouts meeting Thursday and Friday. We had some good discussions there. This year there are not so many top free agents available. The guys who would normally be secondary targets are now the primary targets. Its a good year to be a UFA." Richards Gone? Larry Brooks of The New York Post writes that the Rangers have conducted their annual pre-free agency and pre-draft player evaluation meetings and adds that Brad Richards is expected to become the clubs second and final amnesty buyout - perhaps as early as this week. A buyout of Richards would clear $6.67 million of cap space for the Rangers, who would have about $24 million in space if the cap is at $70 million next season. No Canada? According to Bruce Garrioch of The Ottawa Sun, the Calgary Flames have made a pitch to the Senators for Jason Spezza, but a deal is unlikely to happen. As Garrioch writes, Spezza isnt too interested in playing in Canada as the Flames, Canucks, Oilers and Jets are on his list of 10 teams that he doesnt want to be traded to. He adds the Flames are thought to be offering Jiri Hudler, Mikael Backlund, or Dennis Wideman and one of their several second and third round draft picks. ' ' '