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SPORTS Thursday 16 November 2017
Crosby, Sheary

lead Penguins past

Sabres 5-4 in OT`

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sid- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and
ney Crosby ended a long Connor McDavid each
goal drought and assisted had two goals for Edmon-
on Conor Sheary’s winner ton in a victory over Vegas.
16 seconds into overtime Oscar Klefbom, Patrick Ma-
as the Pittsburgh Penguins roon, Matt Benning and
beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-4 Mark Letestu also scored
on Tuesday night. for the Oilers, who snapped
Crosby scored his sixth of a two-game skid. Cam Tal-
the season, Sheary had bot stopped 22 shots.
a pair of goals and Patric Pierre-Edouard Bellemare
Hornqvist added one for and James Neal had the
Pittsburgh. Phil Kessel got his goals for the expansion
eighth of the season and Golden Knights, who have
has goals in four straight lost three of four.
games. Maxime Lagace gave up
Kessel, the team’s lead- seven goals on 29 shots
ing scorer, has at least one before being replaced by
point in five straight games Dylan Ferguson, the fifth
— and 16 of 20 this season. goalie to play for Vegas this
Matt Murray made 28 saves year.
for the Penguins, who won PREDATORS 6, CAPITALS 3
their sixth in a row at home. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Pittsburgh is 12-0-1 in its last Mattias Ekholm and Kevin
13 games against the Sa- Fiala each had a goal and
bres, including seven con- an assist to lead Nashville
secutive wins at home. past Washington for its fifth
Crosby scored for the first straight victory. Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (87) lifts the puck over Buffalo Sabres goalie Robin Lehner (40)
time in 11 games, and Buf- Craig Smith, Nick Bonino, for a goal in the second period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017.
falo’s Jack Eichel ended an Filip Forsberg and Miikka Associated Press
eight-game drought, both Salomaki also scored for SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Jona- easily handled the fran- Tanner Pearson scored in
in the second period. Nashville. Pekka Rinne than Huberdeau had two chise that moved from Win- the opening minute and
WILD 3, FLYERS 0 made 26 saves, and 12 power-play goals and Vin- nipeg to Arizona 21 years Anze Kopitar extended
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — De- players had at least one cent Trocheck scored the ago. his point streak to nine
van Dubnyk posted his third point for the Predators. winner in a shootout to lift Joel Armia, Bryan Little and games with a power-play
straight shutout with 30 T.J. Oshie scored twice and Florida over Dallas. Adam Lowry scored in the goal moments later for the
saves and Nino Niederre- Alex Chiasson also had a Aleksander Barkov scored second period for the Jets, Kings, who hadn’t lost three
iter scored 12 seconds into goal for Washington, which in regulation and the shoot- who also beat the Coyotes straight since Feb. 16-19.
the game for Minnesota in had won two consecutive out for the Panthers. Ro- in Arizona last weekend to Jonathan Quick stopped
a win against Philadelphia. games. berto Luongo stopped 40 finish a three-game road 24 shots, but Los Angeles
Dubnyk’s third shutout of Braden Holtby made 19 shots, plus two more in the trip. Andrew Copp opened remained winless three
the season stretched his saves and was replaced tiebreaker. the scoring. games into a five-game
scoreless streak to 195:05, by Philipp Grubauer at the Jamie Benn had two goals Antti Raanta made 10 homestand after blowing a
breaking his mark of 183:16 start of the third period. for Dallas, and Remi Elie saves on 13 shots for Ari- two-goal lead against the
set last season for the lon- Grubauer turned aside all also scored. Tyler Seguin zona before being chased inconsistent Canucks.
gest in team history. Dub- six shots he faced. had a goal in the shootout. after Little’s breakaway Vancouver was 2 for 21 on
nyk has stopped the last BLUE JACKETS 2, CANA- Kari Lehtonen made 26 goal in the second. the power play over its past
103 shots he’s faced. DIENS 1, OT saves during his first start CANUCKS 3, KINGS 2 six games before improb-
Eric Staal and Jason Zucker MONTREAL (AP) — Zach in four games. Alexander LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sven ably scoring twice against
each scored an empty-net Werenski scored 1:09 into Radulov added two as- Baertschi scored the tie- the Kings, who had the
goal for Minnesota, which overtime, lifting Columbus sists for the Stars and has breaking goal on a power NHL’s best penalty-killing
has won a season-best over Montreal. at least one point in nine play early in the third period percentage entering the
three straight. Josh Anderson had a goal straight games. and Vancouver wrapped game.q
Brian Elliott made 17 saves 2:29 into the game for Co- JETS 4, COYOTES 1 up a four-game road trip
for Philadelphia, shut out lumbus, and Sergei Bo- WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) by sending Los Angeles to
for an NHL-high fifth time brovsky made 28 saves, al- — Connor Hellebuyck its third consecutive loss.
this season. lowing only a goal to Paul made 32 saves and Winni- Henrik Sedin and Bo Hor-
Niederreiter broke Zucker’s Byron early in the third pe- peg defeated Arizona for vat scored second-period
streak of six straight goals riod. its second victory over the goals for the Canucks, who
for the Wild, one shy of the Charlie Lindgren, making struggling Coyotes in four had lost two straight and
NHL record for consecutive his fifth consecutive start for days. five of seven. Anders Nils-
goals scored by a player Montreal, stopped 23 shots. On a night when the Jets son overcame a rough start
for one team. Werenski beat him with a inducted Dale Hawerchuk to make 30 saves in his first
OILERS 8, GOLDEN KNIGHTS wrist shot to the roof of the into their Hall of Fame and appearance since Oct. 26
2 net on his glove side. lifted his No. 10 banner to as Vancouver knocked off
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — PANTHERS 4, STARS 3, OT the rafters, the home team the Pacific Division leaders.