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Monday 10 February 2020
NHL-worst Red Wings beat league-best Bruins 3-1 for 2nd time

By LARRY LAGE through the second.
AP Hockey Writer "I got lucky there, getting
DETROIT (AP) — The NHL's that call," Bernier said.
worst team beat the best. Boston's Patrice Bergeron
Again. said it was his fault the goal
Andreas Athanasiou didn't stand because he
snapped a tie midway didn't get onside before
through the third period going to the bench.
and scored an empty-net "It's on me to get off the
goal in the final minute, lift- ice," he said. "I usually get
ing the Detroit Red Wings off on the right side of the
to a 3-1 win over the Boston blue line."
Bruins on Sunday. Replay was not needed
"When we're playing good early in the third when Krug
hockey and we get good shot into an open net va-
goaltending, we're going cated by Bernier, who bit
to give anybody a hard on David Pastrnak's shot
challenge," Detroit coach fake before he made a
Jeff Blashill said. "That's just cross-crease pass.
the way the NHL is. The par- Athanasiou scored on a
ity's at an all-time high." shot that got between
The Red Wings (14-39-4) are Rask's glove and the post
looking up at the rest of the 7:10 into the third, putting
NHL in the standings, but Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jonathan Bernier (45) stops a Boston Bruins left wing Brad Marchand the Red Wings ahead 2-1.
the rebuilding team has (63) shot in the third period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, in Detroit. His second goal was his
Associated Press
defeated the league-lead- seventh of his injury-short-
ing Bruins (34-11-12) in both Bruce Cassidy. won five straight against tra skater. ened season.
of their games this season. Detroit had the better goal- the Bruins dating to last Detroit took its first lead 2:07 "I think confidence matters
"It seems like they get ex- tender, like it did in the pre- season, beat Boston 4-2 on into the second when Per- again and obviously these
cited to play us," said Torey vious meeting. Nov. 8. They play in Boston lini skated around defen- two goals will be big for
Krug, who scored Boston's Jonathan Bernier made 39 on Saturday and again in seman Brandon Carlo and him," Blashill said.
only goal. "For whatever saves for the Red Wings. March. his wrist shot got past Rask's Boston's Chris Wagner had
reason, it's a tough match- He also started Detroit's win Brendan Perlini put the Red glove. an opportunity to tie the
up for us." over Boston three months Wings up early in the sec- It was Perlini's first goal in 31 game with four-plus min-
Boston had won six straight ago. ond period and Krug tied it games this season. He was utes left, but he shot wide
until the Red Wings stopped Boston's Tuuka Rask early in the third. acquired in a trade with of an open net.
the streak with their second stopped 17 shots while filling Athanasiou restored De- Chicago in October. "Twice our forwards missed
win in three games. in for Jaroslav Halak, who troit's lead on a power The Bruins had a goal ne- wide-open nets," Cas-
"Give Detroit credit for win- was dealing with an upper- play. He sealed the victory gated by video review, sidy said. "You have to put
ning the hockey game, but body injury that flared up by scoring again with 29 which determined they those away in close games
I don't think they were the Saturday morning. seconds left after Rask was were offside before Brad or it will come back to cost
better team," Bruins coach The Red Wings, who have pulled to give Boston an ex- Marchand scored midway you in the end."q
Suter wins 1st super-G, month after 1st downhill triumph

conditions on the Kanda- with Mikaela Shiffrin 61 course, which caused dif-
har course to beat Aus- points behind in second. ficulties because of its icy
tria’s Nicole Schmidhofer Even though she was miss- surface with patches of
by 0.43 seconds and her ing a win until recently, grippy snow.
Swiss teammate Wendy Suter has made a name “The conditions are very
Holdener by seven tenths. for herself as a consistent variable, you have to be
“It was absolutely no per- contender in speed races. flexible,” Suter said.
fect run,” said Suter, an She racked up six po- The two winners of the first
early starter with bib No. dium places since Febru- two super-G races this sea-
5. “I didn’t have a good ary 2019, and won silver son, Viktoria Rebensburg
feeling at the finish, my ex- in downhill and bronze in and Sofia Goggia, both
pectations were not very super-G at last season’s landed in the safety net-
high.” Suter became the world championships. ting after similar crashes
fifth different winner in five On Sunday, Brignone fin- and sustained season-
super-G races this season. ished in fifth and closed ending injuries.
Switzerland's Corinne Suter reacts in the finish area of an alpine The Swiss skier finished third the gap to overall leader The German ski federation
ski, women's World Cup super G, in Garmish Partenkirchen,
Germany, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020. in a race in Lake Louise, Shiffrin to 145 points. said Rebensburg, who won
Associated Press Alberta, in December and The American, who won a downhill here on Satur-
Sunday’s victory sent her the super-G world cham- day, had hurt her left knee
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCH- ing the season standings in top of the discipline stand- pionship and World Cup and would need six to
EN, Germany (AP) — A both disciplines. ings, 39 points clear of Ita- title last season, is taking a eight weeks for recovery,
month ago Corinne Suter Suter got her first win in a ly’s Federica Brignone. break from ski racing since while Goggia underwent
had not won a women’s super-G on Sunday, four After getting her first win in the death of her father, surgery for a fractured left
World Cup downhill or su- weeks after winning her Altenmarkt-Zauchensee in Jeff Shiffrin, last week. arm and was ruled out for
per-G race in her career, first downhill. January, Suter is also lead- Many racers struggled to six weeks, according to
now the Swiss skier is lead- Suter coped with tricky ing the downhill rankings, keep their balance on the the Italian federation.q