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SPORTS Wednesday 28 February 2018

Lightning edge Maple Leafs despite injury to Kucherov

acquired in a trade Sunday
— also scored.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 25
saves for the Blue Jackets,
who held onto the second
wild-card spot in the East-
ern Conference with a knot
of teams still in contention.
Alex Ovechkin got his
league-leading 39th goal
for Washington. Braden
Holtby made 12 saves in
the first period and Philipp
Grubauer had 18 in the last
two.
FLYERS 1, CANADIENS 0, SO
MONTREAL (AP) — Sean
Couturier scored in the sixth
round of the shootout and
Philadelphia edged Mon-
treal for its season-best sixth
straight victory.
Petr Mrazek, making his
third straight start for the
streaking Flyers, stopped
28 shots in his fourth shutout
Tampa Bay Lightning center Brayden Point (21) beats Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen (31) for a goal during a this season. Mrazek is 3-0-0
shootout in an NHL hockey game Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. since being acquired from
Associated Press Detroit last Monday.
Philadelphia passed Wash-
ington for first place in the
By The Associated Press New York Rangers just be- maining in the first and did scored for Vegas. Marc-An- Metropolitan Division. The
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Brayden fore the NHL trade dead- not return. The team an- dre Fleury made 41 saves. Flyers have earned at least
Point scored the deciding line. nounced he sustained an It was the first victory for one point in 12 straight
goal in a shootout for the Tampa Bay parted with upper-body injury. The two- the Kings in three games games (10-0-2).
second consecutive game, forward Vladimir Namest- time All-Star has 82 points in against the expansion Backup goalie Charlie Lind-
lifting the Tampa Bay Light- nikov, two prospects and 63 games. Golden Knights. The teams gren made 33 saves for the
ning to a 4-3 victory over two draft picks — a first- KINGS 3, GOLDEN KNIGHTS meet again Tuesday in Las Canadiens, who have lost
the Toronto Maple Leafs on round selection in 2018 and 2 Vegas. eight of nine.
Monday night. a conditional first-rounder LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anze BLUE JACKETS 5, CAPITALS 1 Both teams scored one
Tyler Johnson, Chris Kunitz in 2019. Kopitar tied the game with COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — goal after five shootout
and Adam Erne scored in James van Riemsdyk, Mitch 10.8 seconds left in the third Seth Jones and Cam Atkin- rounds before Couturier
regulation for the NHL-lead- Marner and Tyler Bozak had period and Dustin Brown son each had a goal and beat Lindgren in the sixth.
ing Lightning, who played the goals for Toronto, which scored a power-play goal two assists as Columbus The Canadiens have been
most of the game without played without injured star 3:14 into overtime, rallying topped Washington. shut out nine times this sea-
Nikita Kucherov after the Auston Matthews. Frederik Los Angeles past Vegas. Columbus scored four goals son, tying a franchise re-
league's top scorer was in- Andersen stopped 39 shots. Jeff Carter, in his second in the first period — two on cord.
jured. Still, the Atlantic Di- Andrei Vasilevskiy finished game back after miss- power plays — in winning its AVALANCHE 3, CANUCKS 1
vision leaders edged sec- with 27 saves for Tampa ing 55 with a cut tendon, second game in three days DENVER (AP) — Nathan
ond-place Toronto hours Bay. He denied Marner on scored the Kings' first goal and first in four tries against MacKinnon had two goals
after acquiring defense- a penalty shot with 6:02 left on a power play at 12:28 of the Capitals this season. and an assist, and Mikko
man Ryan McDonagh in the third period to keep the third. Jonathan Quick Artemi Panarin had a goal Rantanen added a goal
and forward J.T. Miller in a the score tied. stopped 37 shots. and an assist, and Sonny and an assist in Colorado's
blockbuster deal with the Kucherov left with 5:41 re- Erik Haula and Reilly Smith Milano and Mark Letestu — victory over Vancouver.q