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Crosby’s hat trick pushes Penguins past Flyers 7-0

By WILL GRAVES ular season when the Pen- The two-time MVP has a
AP Sports Writer guins beat them in all four knack for scoring in un-
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney meetings, scoring five goals orthodox ways. He beat
Crosby and the Pittsburgh each time. Montreal’s Carey Price with
Penguins sent a message in Game 1 didn’t go any bet- an intentional double-de-
their playoff opener. ter. flection and smacked a re-
The Penguins captain got Elliott stopped Kris Letang’s bound out of air in overtime
his third career postsea- slap shot with his blocker to top New Jersey within
son hat trick, Evgeni Malkin only to see the long re- a span of eight days last
added a highlight-reel goal bound go right to Rust, who month.
and the two-time defend- ripped it over Elliott’s right His first of the playoffs was
ing Stanley Cup champions shoulder to give the Pen- just as impressive. Brian
rolled over the Philadelphia guins the lead 2:38 into the Dumoulin’s shot from the
Flyers 7-0 on Wednesday game. point fluttered after hitting
night to take quick control Philadelphia’s best chance a stick. Enter Crosby, who
of their first-round series. at staying in it came min- reached out and swatted it
Crosby batted a shot out utes later, but Scott Laugh- like a tennis player sending
of midair and past Phila- ton whiffed on his first at- a two-handed backhand
delphia goalie Brian Elliott tempt from the doorstep down the line. It zipped
in the second period for and Murray made a sprawl- past a stunned Elliott. His
his first goal, tapped in one ing glove save on Laugh- last two goals weren’t quite
from the doorstep against ton’s second try to preserve as dramatic, though they
Petr Mrazek 7:41 into the Pittsburgh’s lead. did pull him into a tie with
third and then deflected in Moments later, Hagelin team owner and Hall of
another just over three min- expertly redirected Patric Famer Mario Lemieux for
utes later as the Penguins Hornqvist’s shot past Elliott the franchise record for the
dominated their cross-state 10:07 into the game. Mal- most career hat tricks in the
rivals from the opening fa- kin drew a hooking pen- playoffs.
ceoff of Game 1. alty to negate a Pittsburgh NOTES: Murray hasn’t al-
Jake Guentzel had a goal power play, and when he lowed a goal since Game
and three assists for Pitts- Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (87) celebrates his goal emerged from the penalty 4 of the 2017 Stanley Cup
burgh. Bryan Rust and Carl with Jake Guentzel (59) during the second period in Game box, he whizzed past three finals, a span of 206:26. ...
Hagelin also scored. Matt 1 of an NHL first-round hockey playoff series against the Flyers in one sequence, The Penguins, who had the
Murray stopped 24 shots Philadelphia Flyers in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, April 11, 2018. darting by Jakub Voracek, league’s top-ranked pow-
for his third straight playoff Associated Press slipping past Claude Gir- er play during the regular
shutout. into the second. Mrazek to stay out of the penalty oux and then fending off season, went 1 for 4 with
Game 2 is Friday night in wasn’t much better, get- box and put together three Shayne Gostisbehere be- the man advantage. The
Pittsburgh. ting beaten by Crosby disciplined, competitive fore flicking a backhand Flyers were 0 for 4. ... Pitts-
Elliott stopped 14 of 19 shots twice more as Philadel- periods if they wanted to past Elliott to put the Pen- burgh C Derick Brassard,
and was pulled in favor of phia’s return to the playoffs put an abrupt halt to Pitts- guins up 3-0 before the se- who missed time late in the
Mrazek after Crosby’s latest after a one-year absence burgh’s run at history. It’s ries was 15 minutes old. regular season with a low-
bit of wizardry pushed Pitts- started with a thud. something Philadelphia All that before Crosby got er-body injury, had an assist
burgh’s lead to 5-0 just 9:01 The Flyers stressed the need failed to do during the reg- involved. in 13:44.q

U.S. Open to use 25-second clocks, timed warmup in main draw

By HOWARD FENDRICH in a telephone interview onds, it has not been done
AP Tennis Writer Wednesday, confirming uniformly, in part because
The U.S. Open will have the main-draw changes there is not a readout avail-
25-second serve clocks on that were first reported by able for players and spec-
all of its courts during main The New York Times. “That’s tators to see.
draw matches this year our goal.” One other ele- If a player’s 25-second al-
to enforce time limits be- ment that the USTA tried out lotment before serving
tween points. during qualifying matches lapses, the chair umpire will
The Grand Slam tourna- at last year’s tournament issue a warning. The player
ment, which begins in New that will not make it into can be docked a point af-
York on Aug. 27, will also the main draw this time ter a second violation, and
have a strict 7-minute pe- around is allowing coaches then a game after a third,
riod from when players en- to communicate with their Widmaier said.
ter a court until action starts players during matches. Before the start of play, the
after the warmup. “We certainly will not see clocks in New York will mark
Both the serve clocks and coaching in the main draw a 7-minute limit split up this
strict timing for the warmup this year,” Widmaier said. way: 1 minute from when
were tested during quali- The amount of time taken players step on court until
fying matches at Flushing between points by players the coin toss; 5 minutes for
Meadows in 2017. “We has been a topic of con- the warmup; 1 minute un-
would like to keep the versation in tennis for quite til the opening point. De-
In this Aug. 24, 2017, file photo, Ipek Soyluas, of Turkey, prepares pace of play moving,” U.S. a while now. And although lays can result in fines of up
to serve as the serve clock ticks down during a U.S. Open tennis Tennis Association spokes- chair umpires are sup- to $20,000, according to
qualifying match in New York. man Chris Widmaier said posed to monitor the sec- Widmaier.q
Associated Press