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Thursday 31 March 2016
Thursday 31 March 2016
NHL Capsules
Stars, Blues keep pace for
Western Conference lead
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Radek straight victory. his career. The Blackhawks St. Louis Blues’ Joel Edmundson, top, and Colorado Avalanche’s
Faksa and Jason Spezza David Backes and Troy played without their two Francois Beauchemin slam into the boards while chasing the
scored 46 seconds apart in Brouwer also scored for the top defensemen, because puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tues-
the second period, and the Blues, who are tied with of an illness for Brent Sea- day, March 29, 2016, in St. Louis.
Dallas Stars beat the Nash- Dallas atop the Central Di- brook and then an ugly
ville Predators 5-2 on Tues- vision. first-period match pen- Associated Press
day night. Colorado has lost three of alty on Duncan Keith for
Dallas won for the fifth time four and trails Minnesota swinging his stick at Charlie ence wild card and one ver its ninth straight loss.
in six games to keep pace by five points in the battle Coyle, a potentially costly point back of Boston for Joe Pavelski added a goal
with St. Louis for the West- for the last wild card in the mistake that could draw a third in the Atlantic Division. and an assist for San Jose,
ern Conference lead. Each Western Conference. Both multigame suspension from Gustav Nyquist, Anthony which clinched a playoff
team has 101 points with teams have five games left. the NHL. Mantha and Mike Green spot a night earlier with
five games to play. Elliott and Jake Allen had Jarret Stoll scored with the scored in the second for 5-2 home victory over the
Jamie Benn scored two combined for four consec- first on-target shot of the Detroit, which outshot Mon- Kings. James Reimer made
goals for Dallas, and Kari utive shutouts for St. Louis night for the Wild, who treal 42-27. 23 saves and Brent Burns
Lehtonen made 27 saves. coming into the night. swept the five-game sea- had two assists.
Patrick Sharp and Benn Colorado center Mikhail son series from the Black- The Red Wings and idle Fly- Chris Higgins scored for
scored into an empty net Grigorenko ended the run hawks. ers each have 87 points, Vancouver, which is 0-8-1
during the final two min- by scoring late in the first CANADIENS 4, RED WINGS 3 but Detroit has five games during its current slide. Ja-
utes. period, breaking the club- MONTREAL (AP) — Max Pa- left and Philadelphia has cob Markstrom stopped 27
Nashville lost for the second record scoreless string at cioretty’s second goal of seven remaining. shots.
straight night, hurting its over 258 minutes. the night lifted the Cana- SHARKS 4, CANUCKS 1 The Sharks, who host the
chances of catching Chi- Colorado goalie Semyon diens to the victory. VANCOUVER, British Co- Canucks on Thursday, sit
cago for third in the loaded Varlamov made 24 saves. Paul Byron and Sven An- lumbia (AP) — Logan Cou- third in the Pacific Division,
Central Division. WILD 4, BLACKHAWKS 1 drighetto also scored for ture scored three goals for two points back of Ana-
Ryan Ellis and Viktor Arvids- ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) — Montreal, which blew a his first career hat trick, and heim and three behind Los
son scored for the Preda- Jared Spurgeon, Erik Hau- two-goal lead and trailed San Jose handed Vancou- Angeles.q
tors, and Pekka Rinne had la and Nino Niederreiter 3-2 heading into the final
20 saves. scored in the third period, period. Mike Condon had
BLUES 3, AVALANCHE 1 and Minnesota stretched 39 saves.
Brian Elliott made 20 saves its season-long winning The Canadiens played the
and Vladimir Tarasenko streak to six straight games. spoiler, with the Red Wings
scored his 36th goal to Marian Hossa had the goal remaining just out of the
power St. Louis to its fifth for Chicago, the 499th of second Eastern Confer-
Olympics The U.S. then showed its its failure to play at the
frustration. Gil, who scored
Continued from page 17 in the first leg, entered in London Olympics and he
the 67th minute and was
“I’m real emotional, and I given a yellow card by Uz- made qualifying for Brazil
don’t want to say anything bek referee Ravshan Irma-
without coming down a tov in the 72nd minute for a priority, installing top as-
bit,” Herzog said. “I’m re- pushing Helibelton Palacios
ally disappointed.” after a confrontation deep sistant Herzog as under-23
Martinez redirected Andres in the U.S. end, then was
Roa’s off-target shot past given a second yellow five coach.
goalkeeper Ethan Horvath minutes later after clashing
in the 30th minute. An own for a ball with his hands high But the Americans were
goal by Delver Machado with Wilmar Barrios.
tied the score in the 59th, Miazga received a red in forced into the playoff by
with the defender heading the 90th minute for pulling
the ball over goalkeeper down Christian Borga, who losing to Honduras 2-0 last
Cristian Bonila while trying was running onto a ball just
to clear Morris’ pass from outside the penalty area October in the semifinal
Emerson Hyndman. on an obvious goal-scoring
Martinez put the Colom- opportunity. round of the regional quali-
bians back ahead in the The U.S. had last failed to
64th minute, eluding Tim qualify for consecutive fying in North and Central
Parker at the 6-yard box Olympics from 1960-68. Co-
and beating Horvath. At lombia will make its first ap- America and the Carib-
that point, because the first pearance since 1992.
tiebreaker is away goals, U.S. national team coach bean.
the Americans needed to Jurgen Klinsmann said the
score twice. 2012 group of under-23 Before a crowd of 7,998,
“We give up such a simple, players was set back by
stupid goal,” Herzog said. the Americans were out- U.S. forwards Emerson Hyndman, Jerome Klesewetter (17), Matt
shot 11-5, including 6-0 in Polster (13) and Jordan Morris (9) celebrate a Colombia own
shots on target, increasing goal during the second half of an Olympic qualifying soccer
Colombia’s advantage to match Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in Frisco, Texas.
29-10 and 12-1 over the two Associated Press
legs. Colombia’s Andres Rent- This game resembled the
Herzog made two changes eria just outside the penalty loss to Honduras. The Ameri-
to his starting lineup, insert- area. cans were outmuscled
ing midfielder Paul Arriola in The Americans’ defeat pre- once again.
place of Gil and for Dese- vented a sweep for the U.S. “When a team played
vio Payne started instead of men’s program Tuesday. real physical against us,
Eric Miller. The national team beat we didn’t have any pow-
Horvath was back in goal. Guatemala 4-0 in a World er, any assertiveness up
He left the first leg late in the Cup qualifier at Columbus, front,” Herzog said. “That’s
first half after colliding with Ohio. disappointing.”q
