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Saturday 20 January 2018

Vegas beats Tampa Bay 4-1 in matchup of conference leaders

By The Associated Press MacKinnon scored twice Adrian Kempe scored and
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Marc- during a 58-second span Jonathan Quick made 28
Andre Fleury made 28 in the first period, Matt Ni- saves for the Kings, who
saves, David Perron had eto added a late insur- have lost five straight for
a goal and an assist, and ance goal and Colorado the first time this season.
the Vegas Golden Knights ran its winning streak to DEVILS 4, CAPITALS 3, OT
beat the Tampa Bay Light- eight straight. Carl Soder- NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Tay-
ning 4-1 Thursday night in berg also scored and Mikko lor Hall scored on a break-
a matchup of conference Rantanen had a goal and away 34 seconds into over-
leaders. James Neal, Nate two assists for the Avs, who time, lifting New Jersey to
Schmidt and William Karls- have won eight in a row the victory.
son also scored for the for the first time since the Sami Vatanen collected
Golden Knights, who swept 2005-06 season. It’s tied for his third assist of the game
the two-game season se- the third-longest streak in on the winning goal, a shot
ries with the NHL-leading franchise history. Joe Thorn- over the shoulder of goal-
Lightning. ton, Timo Meier and Marc- tender Braden Holtby.
Tampa Bay, coming off Edouard Vlasic scored for Drew Stafford, Andy
its bye week, got a goal San Jose. Jonathan Bernier Greene and Miles Wood
from Ondrej Palat, and stopped 45 shots to run his also scored for the Devils,
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped winning streak to a career- who have won two straight
26 shots. Vasilevskiy, an best seven games. He is fill- since a six-game winless
All-Star this season, has al- ing in with starter Semyon streak (0-3-3). Keith Kinkaid
lowed 19 goals over his last Varlamov sidelined by a had 16 saves and the Devils
four games. Fleury made a lower-body injury. killed off all five Washington
number of impressive stops, Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Chris Kunitz (14) tries to pick up PENGUINS 3, KINGS 1 power plays.
including a left-circle shot a rebound after Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patric Brett Connolly scored twice
by Steven Stamkos and Fleury (29) made a save on a shot during the second period of Hornqvist scored two goals and Dmitry Orlov had a
in-close chance from Ni- an NHL hockey game Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. and Evgeni Malkin got the goal for the Capitals, who
kita Kucherov during the Associated Press tiebreaking goal early in lost for only the second
second period. The goalie, Ryan Spooner had a goal Nolan Patrick and Wayne the third period of the Pen- time in eight games. Holtby
who spent most of career and an assist, and Anton Simmonds scored early guins’ fifth win in six games. made 28 saves, but gave
with Pittsburgh, is 19-11-4 Khudobin stopped 22 shots. in the third period for the Casey DeSmith stopped up three breakaway goals.
against the Lightning. Jordan Eberle and John Ta- Flyers. Michal Neuvirth 28 shots to earn his first BLUE JACKETS 2, STARS 1, SO
Neal opened the scoring vares scored for New York, stopped 29 shots, including NHL victory in his third ca- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
with a nifty deflection 56 which has dropped seven a sprawling pad save on reer appearance for Pitts- Artemi Panarin scored in
seconds into the first, and of 10 — with each of the Patrick Marleau with 2:48 burgh. Malkin had a goal the second round of a
Schmidt made it 2-0 with losses coming in regula- left in regulation. and an assist as the Pen- shootout, sending the Blue
3:57 left in the period. Deryk tion. Jaroslav Halak made Fourth-liners Connor Brown guins bounced back from Jackets to the win.
Engelland got his 100th NHL 29 saves while facing fewer and Frederik Gauthier a loss in Anaheim one night Joonas Korpisalo had 35
assist on Neal’s goal. than 35 shots for the first scored 28 seconds apart earlier with a solid effort at saves for Columbus, which
BRUINS 5, ISLANDERS 2 time in his last 11 games. in the second period for Staples Center in the sec- returned from its five-day
NEW YORK (AP) — Patrice FLYERS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2, OT Toronto in its season-high ond stop of the back-to- break after losing both
Bergeron scored three PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sean fourth straight loss. Ander- back Stanley Cup champs’ ends of a back-to-back last
goals to lead Boston to an- Couturier scored 18 sec- sen made 34 saves. three-game California trip. week. Jordan Schroeder
other victory, giving the Bru- onds into overtime and Back on good terms with Hornqvist scored in the scored his first goal of the
ins at least a point for the Philadelphia rallied for the the organization after an opening minute and got season in the first period.
15th consecutive game. win after retiring the No. 88 ugly 2001 departure, Lindros another during a five-min- Korpisalo blocked a shoot-
Brad Marchand had a goal jersey of Hall of Fame cen- received several standing ute power play midway out try by Jason Spezza
and two assists as Boston ter Eric Lindros. ovations before his number through the third after before Alexander Radulov
improved to 11-0-4 since its Couturier took a feed from was hoisted to the rafters in Dustin Brown got a game and Tyler Seguin came up
last regulation loss Dec. 14 Travis Konecny and beat a ceremony that delayed misconduct penalty for empty. Dallas goaltender
against Washington — its Frederik Andersen with a the start by an hour. sending a kneeling Jus- Ben Bishop blocked Jussi
best stretch since going 15- wrist shot to give the Flyers AVALANCHE 5, SHARKS 3 tin Schultz into the boards Jokinen’s shootout attempt
0-1 from March 2-30, 2014. their fifth win in six games. DENVER (AP) — Nathan near the Kings’ bench. before Panarin beat him.q