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SPORTS Friday 6 december 2019
Nichushkin, Avalanche

beat Maple Leafs 3-1

TORONTO (AP) — Valeri reer shutout as. Mikko Koskinen gave up
Nichushkin scored a short- Jordan Binnington finished three goals on 12 shots be-
handed goal in the third with 30 saves for St. Louis, fore leaving in the second
period, lifting the Colorado but the Blues saw their 10- period. Mike Smith finished
Avalanche to a 3-1 win game road point streak with 11 saves.
over the Toronto Maple end. CAPITALS 3, KINGS 1
Leafs on Wednesday night. SENATORS 5, OILERS 2 LOS ANGELES (AP) — John
Nathan MacKinnon had a EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Carlson scored twice, Ilya
goal and an assist, Joonas — Tyler Ennis had a goal Samsonov stopped 22
Donskoi also scored and and two assists to help Ot- shots and Washington beat
Philipp Grubauer stopped tawa snap a five-game Los Angeles.
38 shots for the Avalanche. skid. Tom Wilson also had a goal
Zach Hyman scored for To- Artem Anisimov, Connor as the Capitals have won
ronto and Frederik Ander- Brown, Anthony Duclair five in a row for the second
sen, starting on consecu- and Vladislav Namestnikov time this season.
tive nights for the first time also scored for the Sena- They won six straight Oct.
since January 2017, had 27 tors. 25-Nov. 9.
saves. Craig Anderson, returning Blake Lizotte had a goal
With his team on the power from a lower-body injury, and Jonathan Quick made
play, Toronto center Jason stopped 24 shots. 19 saves for the Kings, who Colorado Avalanche right wing Valeri Nichushkin (13)
Spezza’s stick shattered on Jujhar Khaira and Oscar lost for the third time in their celebrates his goal on Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik
a shot and as he tried to Klefbom had goals for the past 10 home games.q Andersen (31) during the third period of an NHL hockey game,
keep the puck in with his Oilers, losers of three of Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 in Toronto.
feet at the blue line, he got their last four. Associated Press
caught up with teammate
Morgan Rielly.
That allowed Nichushkin to
move in all alone and bury
his third goal of the season
upstairs at 6:40 to put Colo-
rado up 2-1.
Toronto, which had Mitch
Marner back after he
missed 11 games with a
high ankle sprain, pushed
as the period wore on and
pressed late, but couldn’t
get anything past Grubau-
er with Andersen on the
bench before Donskoi iced
it into an empty net with 79
seconds left.
PENGUINS 3, BLUES 0
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ste-
fan Noesen celebrated
his return to the NHL with
his first goal of the season
and banged=up Pittsburgh
handed St. Louis its first
regulation loss on the road
since before Halloween.
Noesen, a five-year vet-
eran who signed a mi-
nor-league deal with the
Penguins in the offseason,
pounded home a rebound
off Jared McCann’s shot
with 39 seconds left in the
second period for his first
goal since last March when
he played for New Jersey.
Teddy Blueger scored 39
seconds into the game to
give the Penguins the early
lead and Alex Galchenyuk
got his second of the sea-
son early in the third pe-
riod.
Tristan Jarry stopped 28
shots to post his third ca-