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Karlsson breaks tie, Golden Knights beat Rangers 2-1
By The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Wil-
liam Karlsson scored the
tiebreaking goal midway
through the third period
to lift the Vegas Golden
Knights to a 2-1 victory over
the New York Rangers on
Sunday night. James Neal
also scored and Marc-An-
dre Fleury stopped 28 shots
to improve to 9-2-1 in front
of a season-high 18,234 in
attendance.
The Western Conference-
leading Golden Knights
have the top home record
in the NHL at 18-2-1. The ex-
pansion team is 9-0-1 in its
last 10 at home, including
nine straight wins.
Behind excellent puck
movement on the win-
ner, defenseman Deryk
Engelland found Jona-
than Marchessault with a
blueline-to-blueline pass.
Marchessault then pushed
the puck forward to Reilly
Smith, who found Karlsson
at the right dot for a one-
timer for his team-high 22nd
of the season. Mika Zibane-
jad scored for the Rangers
and Ondrej Pavelec, mak-
ing his 10th appearance of
the season, finished with 32
saves.
LIGHTNING 5, RED WINGS 2
DETROIT (AP) — Dan Girardi
had a goal and an assist
in the first period before
blocking a shot above the
shoulders in the second
period and leaving Tampa
Bay’s victory over Detroit.
Girardi turned his head
In this Feb. 7, 2017, file photo, New England Patriots coach Bill
Belichick holds up a Super Bowl trophy as he addresses the
crowd during a rally in Boston, to celebrate the team’s 34-28
win over the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL Super Bowl 51 football
game in Houston. When asked about an-
Vegas Golden Knights left wing David Perron (57) is held down on the ice by New York Rangers
defenseman Ryan McDonagh (27) in the second period of an NHL hockey gam in Las Vegas on
Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018.
to the left when Detroit’s son’s goal that put Tampa second and third period to
Martin Frk took a shot on a Bay up 2-0. Yanni Gourde pull the Red Wings within a
power play and the puck and Nikita Kucherov re- goal. Detroit’s Petr Mrazek
appeared to hit the defen- stored two-goal leads in made 19 saves, filling in for
seman in the neck. He lay the second and third peri- Jimmy Howard, who was
face down on the ice while ods. Gourde added a sec- out with a lower-body in-
a doctor evaluated him on ond goal of the night late jury.
the ice and was eventually in the game, putting the PENGUINS 6, BRUINS 5, OT
able to sit up. Girardi later Lightning ahead 5-2. Lou- PITTSBURGH (AP) — Evgeni
skated slowly off the ice with is Domingue stopped 34 Malkin got his second goal
teammates at his side and shots for the NHL-leading of the game at 2:51 of
walked toward the dressing Lightning. They avoided overtime to rally Pittsburgh
room. The team confirmed losing three straight for the past Boston. Phil Kessel set
in the second intermission first time this season.
that Girardi would not re- Detroit had won a season- a shot over Tuukka Rask’s
turn to play, adding initial high four straight. Gustav pad during a 2-on-1. Malkin
reports were he was OK. Gi- Nyquist and Justin Ab- and Kessel scored power-
rardi assisted on Tyler John- delkader scored in the play goals in regulation,
Bellchick
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other report about his sup-
Associated Press posed interest in coaching
the New York Giants where
he was a defensive coor-
dinator, the Patriots coach
said he is concerned only
on New England’s game
with the Titans on Saturday
night. “That’s where my to-
tal focus is,” he said.
Last season the Patriots
played under a similar
spotlight after Brady was
suspended for the first four
games as punishment for
his role in the “Deflategate” been very direct, to the
scandal. New England
thrived when he returned,
and went on to earn its fifth
Associated Press
up Malkin, who one-timed
Lombardi Trophy with a re-
cord comeback during its
Super Bowl win over Atlan-
ta. The Patriots haven’t lost
in the divisional round of
the playoffs since falling 28- paring for the Tennessee Ti-
21 to the New York Jets af-
ter the 2010 regular season.
New England has made it
to at least the conference
title game in each of the
past six seasons.
Special teams captain
Matt Slater, now in his 10th
season with the Patriots,
said Belichick’s leadership
sets the tone when possible
distractions creep up.
“Coach Belichick has al-
ways led us in a way that’s
point, very focused on the
Kris Letang, Jamie Oleksiak
and Riley Sheahan also
connected, and Sidney
Crosby had three assists.
The Penguins got consecu-
tive victories for the first
time since Dec. 1-2 when
topped Buffalo twice.Matt
Murray stopped all six shots
he faced in relief of Tristan
Jarry, who made 14 saves
on 19 shots before he was
pulled after the Bruins’ fifth
goal. Brad Marchand, Da-
vid Pastrnak, David Backes,
Noel Acciari and Ryan Sp-
poner scored in regulation
for Boston. The Bruins lost,
but earned a point for the
11th straight game (8-0-3).
CAPITALS 4, BLUES 3, OT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nick-
las Backstrom scored at
4:17 of overtime and Alex
Ovechkin had a power-
play goal and an assist
to help Washington beat
St. Louis. Recognizing a
change of possession in
Washington’s end late in
overtime, Backstrom head-
ed down ice, received a
long pass from T.J. Oshie
and beat goalie Carter
Hutton for his ninth goal of
the season. Ovechkin tied
it at 2 on the power play 8
eight minutes into the third
with his 27th goal, and Lars
Eller gave the Capitals the
lead with 9:11 left. The lead
did not last long, with Carl
Gunnarson credited with a
goal after his shot into pack
of players evaded goalten-
der Braden Holtby with 4:09
remaining.q
task at hand,” Slater said.
“Being able to live in the
moment, and just take
things day by day.”
“I’m just focused on pre-
tans with coach Bill Belich-
ick as my head coach for
the 2017 season,” he said.
“I think everyone in that
locker room feels the same
way. The nature of profes-
sional football is tomor-
row’s not guaranteed to
anyone; players, coaches.
That’s life.” Told of Belich-
ick’s comment that he
plans to return as coach
in New England next sea-
son, safety Patrick Chung
chuckled. “I’m juiced.
Keep coming back,” he
said. “When he’s done, I’ll
be done, too.”q