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Saturday 6 January 2018
Stastny breaks tie in 3rd, Blues beat Golden Knights 2-1

By The Associated Press the Flyers, who overcame
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul a poor third period for their
Stastny broke a third-period second win in six games.
tie with his eighth goal of Brian Elliott made 27 saves
the season, Carter Hutton in his 15th straight start, two
continued his strong play in nights after an ugly loss to
goal and the St. Louis Blues Pittsburgh. Cal Clutterbuck
beat the Vegas Golden scored twice, and John
Knights 2-1 on Thursday Tavares and Ryan Pulock
night. added third-period goals
Alexander Steen also for the Islanders in their
scored for the Blues, who season-high fourth straight
won their third straight. loss. Thomas Greiss allowed
Hutton made 32 saves, five goals on 31 shots
including two tough stops but got little help from a
early in the third while the defense that continues to
game was tied. struggle without injured
Hutton, making his third Johnny Boychuk.
consecutive start, earned WILD 6, SABRES 2
his eighth win of the season ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Nino
and is 12-3 in his last 15 Niederreiter had a hat trick
starts. in his return from injury,
Erik Haula scored for Mikko Koivu contributed a
Vegas, which had its NHL St. Louis Blues center Paul Stastny, right, scores the go-ahead goal behind Vegas Golden Knights goal and two assists, and
expansion record eight- goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury during the third period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, Jan. 4, the finally fully healthy
game winning streak 2018, in St. Louis. Minnesota Wild beat
snapped. Marc-Andre Associated Press Buffalo. Niederreiter, who
Fleury made 37 saves but PITTSBURGH (AP) — 1-2. Matt Murray had 29 in regulation for Toronto, missed the previous five
lost for the first time in six Sebastian Aho scored saves. and Brenden Dillon and games because of a lower
starts. twice, Cam Ward stopped MAPLE LEAFS 3, SHARKS 2, Chris Tierney countered for leg injury, needed less than
CANADIENS 2, LIGHTNING 21 shots and Carolina SO San Jose. Toronto snapped 25 minutes of game time
1, SO blanked Pittsburgh. TORONTO (AP) — Auston a three-game losing streak to get the second hat trick
MONTREAL (AP) — Carey The Hurricanes also beat Matthews and Tyler Bozak and a 10-game slide (0-8-2) of his seven-year career.
Price made 44 saves, Paul the Penguins 2-1 last Friday scored in a shootout to against the Sharks. His parents were even in
Byron scored the only goal in Carolina. Aho got the give Toronto a victory Thornton and Kadri attendance from his native
in a shootout and Montreal winning goal in the first over San Jose in a game dropped the gloves just two Switzerland.
ended a five-game losing matchup, and this time that opened with a fight seconds in after slashing Niederreiter scored just 69
streak with a victory over he iced the two-time that saw the Maple Leafs’ each other at the opening seconds in, snapping a
Tampa Bay. defending Stanely Cup Nazem Kadri rip out part of faceoff. behind-the-net pass from
Max Pacioretty scored champions after Jeff Skinner Joe Thornton’s mountain- FLYERS 6, ISLANDERS 4 Mikael Granlund beneath
in regulation for the and Teuvo Teravainen man beard. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ivan the pads of Sabres goalie
Canadiens in their first scored. Aho assisted on Toronto killed off Mitch Provorov had two goals Robin Lehner. Granlund
victory since Dec. 22. Teravainen’s goal and has Marner’s high-sticking and an assist, and Sean had three assists.
Nikita Kucherov scored his 10 points during a six-game penalty that gave the Couturier had a goal, an Devan Dubnyk took a
26th goal for the Lightning. point streak. Sharks a 4-on-3 skating assist and participated in shutout into the third period
Pacioretty opened the Ward got his first shutout of advantage for the final one of several fights for for the Wild, until Sam
scoring at 20 seconds of the season and 26th of his 1:50 of overtime. Philadelphia in a feisty Reinhart scored early and
the second period, ending career. He has wins in 10 of Kevin Labanc was the lone victory over slumping New Evander Kane got a goal
his 13-game goal drought his last 13 games and has successful San Jose shooter York. late. Dubnyk is 11-2-1 in his
that dated to Nov. 30. earned Carolina a point in in six tries against Frederik Travis Konecny energized last 15 starts since Nov. 9.
Andrei Vasilevskiy, coming eight straight. Andersen in the tiebreaker. his teammates with a first- Daniel Winnik and Charlie
off two straight shutouts, The Penguins have Former Shark Patrick period scrap, then scored Coyle also scored for the
saw his scoreless streak end dropped eight of their past Marleau hit the post on his to cap a four-goal second. Wild, who improved to 11-
at 184 minutes, 49 seconds. 12 and haven’t won back- attempt. Wayne Simmonds and 1-1 in their last 13 home
HURRICANES 4, PENGUINS 0 to-back games since Dec. Matthews and Kadri scored Michael Raffl also scored for games.q

U.S. wins World Jr hockey bronze with 9-3 win over Czech Rep.

By JOHN WAWROW U.S. captain Joey Anderson lier, to earn a medal for a and assist, and Martin Kaut Korenar then returned for
AP Hockey Writer and Patrick Harper had a third straight year to mark Daniel Kurovsky also scored the start of the third period
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Trent goal and assist each, and the nation’s longest streak for the Czech Republic. and stopped nine more
Frederic scored four times Ryan Poehling also scored. since in tournament history. Despite the loss, the fourth- shots after backup Jakub
in leading the United States Jake Oettinger finished with The U.S. also finished third in place finish was the na- Skarek allowed four goals
to a 9-3 victory over the 28 saves, and stopped the 2016. tion’s best since winning on 12 shots.
Czech Republic in the first 13 shots he faced be- Team USA upped its medal bronze in 2005. Sweden faced 16-time
world junior championship fore giving up two goals on total to 11 (four gold, one Goalie Josef Korenar al- champion Canada in the
bronze-medal game Fri- three shots in the first 2:11 of silver and six bronze), with lowed three goals 16 shots gold-medal game Friday
day. the third period. two of the third-place fin- before being pulled after night.
Kieffer Bellows scored The defending champion ishes coming in Buffalo, Brady Tkachuk’s centering Frederic plays at Wisconsin
twice, including once on a Americans bounced back where the tournament was pass banked in off Ander- and was selected by the
penalty shot, and added from a 4-2 loss to Sweden also held in 2010-11. son’s skate 4:18 into the Boston Bruins in the first-
an assist. in the semifinal a day ear- Radovan Pavlik had a goal second period. round of the 2016 draft. q