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Sabres beat Bruins 4-1 in Rick Nash's debut for Boston

By JOHN WAWROW place in the Atlantic Di- McQuaid in front. The puck
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ben- vision standings, a point caromed to Pouliot, who
oit Pouliot and Kyle Okpo- ahead of the idle Maple scored into the open left
so scored on consecutive Leafs. side.
shots in the first period and The Bruins acquired the Okposo scored a power-
the Buffalo Sabres beat 33-year-old Nash in a mul- play goal 2:05 later with a
retooled Boston 4-1 in for- tiplayer trade with the shot from the right circle
ward Rick Nash's Bruins de- New York Rangers on Sun- that beat Khudobin on
but Sunday. day morning. Boston gave the short side and with the
Evan Rodrigues and Marco up three players, includ- goalie screened by Sam
Scandella also scored, and ing forward Ryan Spooner Reinhart.
Chad Johnson stopped 34 and prospect defenseman McAvoy cut the Sabres
shots. The Sabres snapped Ryan Lindgren, and its first- lead to 2-1 during a de-
an 0-5-2 home skid against round pick in this year's layed penalty 3:35 into the
the Bruins. Buffalo had not draft in a deal reached a second period. Rodrigues
defeated Boston at home day before the NHL's trad- regained Buffalo its two-
since a 5-4 overtime win Boston Bruins forward Rick Nash (61) lines up for a face off dur- ing deadline goal edge some four min-
Feb. 26, 2014. ing the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Pouliot opened the scoring utes later by one-timing
Charlie McAvoy scored for Sabres, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, in Buffalo, N.Y. with 5:34 left in the first pe- in Reinhart's feed into the
the Bruins, who were com- Associated Press riod, and 11 seconds after right circle.
ing off a 4-3 loss at Toronto the Bruins killed off a slash- He finished with five shots,
on Saturday night. Boston 24 shots, including being Nash's addition failed to ing penalty against Brad which didn’t include a hard
had gone 22-4-3 since last beaten through the legs on provide Boston a lift against Marchand. snapshot from the right
losing consecutive games Scandella's goal from the the Eastern Conference's Sabres defenseman Victor circle which he banked
Dec. 14-16. Anton Khudo- right boards that put Buf- last-place team. The Bru- Antipin's shot from the right off the far post on a 3-on-
bin was not sharp in goal, falo up 4-1 in the opening ins squandered an oppor- wing struck the skate of 2 rush midway through the
allowing four goals on minutes of the third period. tunity to jump into second Boston defenseman Adam second period.q

Tiafoe wins first career

ATP title at Delray Beach

since Andy Roddick at 19 in Frances fell in love with Open, where he reached
2002 in Houston. the game. His twin brother, the quarterfinals, with nine
Tiafoe fell on his back in Franklin, wasn't interested in total career ATP tour-level
celebration and cried as the sport. match victories. In this last
he hugged his father. "It's unbelievable," said two-weeks he has won sev-
"Now I'm in a position not Frances Sr., who now fre- en tour matches. Among
Frances Tiafoe of the U.S. holds the trophy after he defeated Pe-
ter Gojowczyk of Germany 6-1, 6-4 in his first ATP World Tour win only to help myself, but quently travels the tour those recent victories is
in the 2018 Delray Beach Open, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, in Delray help fund my family," Tiafoe with his son. "I told them a second-round win over
Beach, Fla. said. "It's an unbelievable since they were little, work 10th-ranked Juan Martin
Associated Press place to be in and it's big- hard and you can achieve del Potro this week. Tiafoe
ger than tennis." your goal. I told him what- was the last American to
By SANDRA HARWITT first wild-card recipient to Tiafoe's parents moved ever you put your mind to defeat the German, which
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) win the title in its 26-year his- from Sierra Leone to the you can do it." Tiafoe, who took place at the 2016 Win-
— Frances Tiafoe won the tory, had consecutive aces United States looking for should move up to approxi- netka, Illinois Challenger
Delray Beach Open, with on the final two points for a a better life. The elder Tia- mately No. 61 in Monday's event. "I told you guys I was
father Frances Sr. watch- 6-1, 6-4 victory over Peter foe ended up working as new rankings, was playing going to get him," said Tia-
ing, on Sunday for his first Gojowczyk of Germany. a maintenance worker in his first career tour-level fi- foe, laughing. "All the guys
ATP Tour title. At 20, Tiafoe is the young- at a Maryland tennis club nal at Delray Beach. He en- were texting me, 'You have
The 91st-ranked Tiafoe, the est American to win a title where the American-born tered last week's New York to take him out.'"q