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Thursday 31 OcTOber 2019
Crosby, Simon lead

Penguins to big

win over Flyers

By The Associated Press Pastrnak scored his league-
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney leading 12th and Boston
Crosby and Dominik Simon beat San Jose.
scored during an early four- Chris Wagner also had a
goal outburst, and the Pitts- goal and an assist as the
burgh Penguins drilled the Bruins won their fourth
Philadelphia Flyers 7-1 on straight and improved
Tuesday night. to 6-0-2 in their last eight.
Crosby, wearing a face- Charlie Coyle and Brandon
mask as extra protection Carlo also scored for Bos-
after getting hit in the head ton.
by a shot over the week- Tuukka Rask made 16 saves
end, added two assists to for the Bruins, who outshot
boost his career point to- the Sharks 41-17 and held
tal against the Flyers to 102 San Jose to just six shots in
as the Penguins rolled to a each of the first two peri-
rare lopsided victory over ods.
their cross-state rivals. Brent Burns scored San Jo-
Jared McCann, Justin se's only goal. Martin Jones
Schultz, Zach Aston-Re- finished with 36 saves for
ese, Jake Guentzel and the Sharks, who lost their
Dominik Kahun also scored third straight and went 1-3-
for Pittsburgh. Matt Murray 1 on a five-game Eastern A shot by Pittsburgh Penguins' Justin Schultz gets over Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Brian Elliott
stopped 29 shots to win for Conference trip. (37) for a goal as Penguins' Bryan Rust (17) stands by during the first period of an NHL hockey
the sixth time in his last sev- RANGERS 4, LIGHTNING 1 game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019.
en starts. NEW YORK (AP) — Filip Associated Press
Oskar Lindblom got his sixth Chytil scored the tiebreak-
goal for the Flyers, but Phil- ing goal in his season de- first time in three tries. Rocco Grimaldi had the power-play goal and an
adelphia was simply over- but, and New York scored Elias Lindholm scored primary assist on all three assist in the first period for
whelmed by the Penguins three times in 6½ minutes against his former team for goals for the first three- Minnesota. Jason Zucker
during a first-period on- late in the third period to the second straight year point game of his career. and Ryan Suter also scored
slaught in which Pittsburgh beat Tampa Bay. and David Rittich made 26 Craig Smith added two as- for the Wild.
beat Brian Elliott four times Ryan Strome had a goal saves for the Flames. sists for the Predators, win- Anton Khudobin made 11
in just more than six min- and an assist, and Kaapo RED WINGS 3, OILERS 1 ners of four straight. saves for the Stars after re-
utes. Kakko and Adam Fox also DETROIT (AP) — Dylan Larkin The struggling Blackhawks lieving Ben Bishop to begin
CAPITALS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 3, scored for the Rangers, and Patrik Nemeth scored have lost five of six. the second period. Bishop
OT who had one win in their in the first period, and De- Bonino's hat trick was the stopped eight of 10 shots
TORONTO (AP) — Alex previous seven games. Al- troit beat Edmonton to end third of his NHL career and he faced.
Ovechkin scored his sec- exandar Georgiev stopped an eight-game skid. first with the Predators. DUCKS 7, JETS 4
ond goal of the game dur- 29 shots. Jimmy Howard made 31 After scoring once in each ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
ing an overtime power play Nikita Kucherov had Tam- saves for the Red Wings, of the first two periods, Cam Fowler set a franchise
to complete a four-point pa Bay's goal and Andrei who won for the first time Bonino buried the rebound record for career goals by
night, and Washington Vasilevskiy finished with 38 since Oct. 10 against Mon- of a shot from Grimaldi from an Anaheim defenseman
beat Toronto. saves. treal. just outside Robin Lehner's in a win over Winnipeg.
John Carlson also scored HURRICANES 2, FLAMES 1 Larkin converted on a crease, prompting fans to John Gibson made 36 saves
twice for Washington. Nick- RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An- power play 7:41 into the shower the ice with hats at and Josh Mahura tied an
las Backstrom added three drei Svechnikov scored game, lifting the puck from 3:40 of the third. Anaheim rookie mark with
assists, while Braden Holtby twice in the final 10:47, in- the front of the crease. Ne- Lehner finished with 48 three assists as the Ducks
made 27 saves. cluding a spectacular la- meth, who signed as a free saves. broke a four-game losing
Auston Matthews had two crosse-style goal that tied agent last summer, scored STARS 6, WILD 3 streak to the Jets.
goals and an assist and An- it, and Carolina rallied to his first goal with the Red DALLAS (AP) — Alexander Nikolaj Ehlers scored twice
dreas Johnsson scored the beat Calgary. Wings less than a minute Radulov had a hat trick, for the Jets, who have lost
other goal from Toronto, Svechnikov earned a spot later. scoring late in the second five of seven. Connor Helle-
which got 30 saves from in the highlight reels by Leon Draisaitl scored Ed- period and twice in the buyck was pulled midway
Frederick Andersen. bringing the puck behind monton's only goal in the third, as Dallas rallied from through the second period
The Capitals were on the the net, scooping it up on third period. Filip Hronek a three-goal deficit to beat after allowing five goals on
man advantage for much his stick blade, lifting it to added a late empty-netter. Minnesota. 19 shots, and Laurent Bros-
of overtime before Ovech- chest-level and tucking it PREDATORS 3, BLACK- Roope Hintz, Joe Pavel- soit made seven saves in re-
kin scored his 11th of the over goalie David Rittich's HAWKS 0 ski and Tyler Seguin also lief. Carter Rowney scored
season on a bullet one- right shoulder. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — scored for Dallas, which twice late in the third peri-
time at the 4-minute mark. He followed that with a Nick Bonino had a natu- didn't get on the board od for the Ducks, and Ryan
BRUINS 5, SHARKS 1 power-play connection ral hat trick, Pekka Rinne until Radulov's goal with 48 Getzlaf, Adam Henrique,
BOSTON (AP) — David Kre- with 7:25 remaining to help made 20 saves for his sec- seconds left in the second Troy Terry and Derek Grant
jci returned with a goal and the Hurricanes win their ond consecutive shutout period. also scored. Bryan Little
an assist after missing five second straight and beat and Nashville beat Chica- Eric Staal, who celebrated and Blake Wheeler got the
games with an injury, David ex-coach Bill Peters for the go. his 35th birthday, had a Jets' other goals.q