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SPORTSFriday 11 March 2016

Kings win in OT to top Pacific Division

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff      Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon, front, scores a goal against Anaheim Ducks                                                23 goals and 25 assists at
Carter scored with 2:10 left   goalie John Gibson in the first period of an NHL hockey game Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in                                             home.
in overtime and the Los An-    Denver.                                                                                                                               MAPLE LEAFS 4, ISLANDERS
geles Kings blew a three-                                                                                                                                            3, SO
goal lead in the third peri-                                                                                                                       Associated Press  TORONTO (AP) — William
od before rallying for a 4-3                                                                                                                                         Nylander scored the tying
victory over the Washing-      the first time since Decem-     period for the Blues and        tion and overtime wins. The                                           goal late in regulation and
ton Capitals on Wednes-        ber and ended a six-game        Jake Allen stopped 33 shots     Blues are a point behind.                                             Nikita Soshnikov had the
day night.                     road winning streak.            through overtime to earn        FLAMES 3, PREDATORS 2, OT                                             only goal of the shootout
Vincent Lecavalier, Jake       Anaheim goaltender John         his 22nd win of the season.     CALGARY, Alberta (AP) —                                               to lift Toronto past the New
Muzzin and Milan Lucic         Gibson had a rare off night.    Patrik Berglund and Troy        Johnny Gaudreau scored                                                York Islanders.
scored in a dominant first     He entered tied for the         Brouwer also had goals in       twice 10 seconds apart in                                             Zach Hyman and Morgan
period for the Kings, who      league-lead with a 2.04         the tiebreaker.                 the first period,                                                     Rielly also scored in regu-
reclaimed the Pacific Di-      goals-against average, but      Andrew Ladd scored in the        then set up Mikael Back-                                             lation and Garret Sparks
vision lead from Anaheim       stopped just 23 of 26 shots.    second period and Artemi        lund’s winner in overtime                                             stopped 24 shots for the
with their seventh victory in  Colorado has outscored          Panarin tied it late in the     to lead Calgary over Nash-                                            Maple Leafs, who had lost
nine games.                    Anaheim 6-0 in two meet-        third for the Blackhawks,       ville.                                                                six straight (0-5-1) — includ-
T.J. Oshie,                    ings this season.               who fell to 32-0-3 win lead-    Joni Ortio finished with 24                                           ing the last five by one
Nicklas Backstrom and          BLUES 3, BLACKHAWKS 2,          ing after two periods. Co-      saves for the Flames, who                                             goal.
Dmitry Orlov scored in the     SO                              rey Crawford had 28 saves.      improved to 1-0-1 on a six-                                           John Tavares, Nick Leddy,
third for the NHL-leading      ST. LOUIS (AP) — Kevin Shat-    Panarin and Artem Anisi-        game homestand.                                                       and Ryan Strome scored
Capitals, who awoke from       tenkirk scored the decisive     mov scored in the shootout      Anthony Bitetto got his first                                         for the Islanders, and
two somnolent periods          goal in the sixth round of      for the Chicago.                career goal and Mike Fish-                                            Thomas Greiss finished
for a furious finish. Braden   the shootout to lift St. Louis  Chicago pulled into a tie       er also scored for Nashville.                                         with 33 saves. New York
Holtby stopped 26 shots in     over Chicago for its fourth     with Dallas for first place in  Carter Hutton stopped 31                                              snapped a four-game win-
Washington’s second loss       straight win.                   the Central Division, though    shots.                                                                ning streak and fell to 11-2-
in six games.                  David Backes and Troy           the Blackhawks have the         Gaudreau has a career-                                                2 in its last 15.
After both teams had           Brouwer scored in the third     tiebreaker with 40 regula-      high 66 points, including                                             Strome gave the Island-
golden overtime chances,                                                                                                                                             ers a 3-2 lead with 5:19 re-
Carter scored on an ex-                                                                                                                                              maining in the third period.
ceptional cross-ice pass                                                                                                                                             Nylander, who scored his
from Lucic to end a thriller                                                                                                                                         second goal in only his sixth
between two Stanley Cup                                                                                                                                              NHL game, knocked in a
contenders.                                                                                                                                                          rebound past Greiss for the
AVALANCHE 3, DUCKS 0                                                                                                                                                 tying goal with 1:13 left in
DENVER (AP) — Semyon                                                                                                                                                 regulation.
Varlamov stopped 37                                                                                                                                                  CANUCKS 3, COYOTES 2,
shots, Nathan MacKinnon                                                                                                                                              OT
got his 21st goal and Col-                                                                                                                                           VANCOUVER, British Co-
orado beat Anaheim 3-0                                                                                                                                               lumbia (AP) — Markus
Wednesday night to end                                                                                                                                               Granlund scored 1:42 into
the Ducks’ 14-game point                                                                                                                                             overtime to help Vancou-
streak.                                                                                                                                                              ver beat Arizona.
Andreas Martinsen and                                                                                                                                                Radim Vrbata and Luca
Shawn Matthias also                                                                                                                                                  Sbisa also scored for the
scored to help the Ava-                                                                                                                                              Canucks. Jacob Mark-
lanche earn a critical win.                                                                                                                                          strom stopped 32 shots for
They’re in a heated race                                                                                                                                             Vancouver.
with Minnesota for the final                                                                                                                                         Kevin Connauton and To-
wild-card spot in the West-                                                                                                                                          bias Rieder scored for the
ern Conference.                                                                                                                                                      Coyotes, who have lost
The Ducks have now                                                                                                                                                   nine of their last 10 games.
dropped two straight for                                                                                                                                             Louis Domingue made 28
                                                                                                                                                                     saves.
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