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SPORTSMonday 28 December 2015

NHL Roundup:

Blues beat Stars in shootout to trim Central lead

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis’ the outright lead in the At- Braden Holtby stopped 29 Dallas Stars’ Colton Sceviour attempts to deflect the puck past
David Backes scored in lantic and is now level on shots to help the Capitals St. Louis Blues goalie Jake Allen during the third period of an
the ninth round of a long points with Detroit, which beat Montreal 3-1. NHL hockey game Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, in St. Louis. The
shootout to give the Blues won at Nashville, while Holtby allowed only a Blues won 3-2 in a shootout.
a 3-2 win against Dal- Los Angeles maintained its second-period goal to
las on Saturday, trimming healthy lead in the Pacific Daniel Carr in earning his (AP Photo/Billy Hurst)
the gap between the top by downing Arizona. NHL-leading 22nd victory.
teams in the NHL Central St. Louis’ Alexander Steen He’s unbeaten in regula-
Division. and Robby Fabbri scored tion time in his 10 career
The Blues moved within in regulation and Jake Al- games against Montreal.
seven points of the Stars len made 22 saves for the Jason Chimera had a goal
in the first game of an im- Blues. and an assist while Evgeny
portant double; they meet Tyler Seguin and Colton Kuznetsov and Jay Beagle
again on Sunday. Sceviour scored in regula- also netted for the Capi-
Washington extended its tion for the Stars, who had tals, who have won eight
lead in the Metropolitan won their previous three straight home games to
Division by beating strug- games. reach a franchise record
gling Montreal, which lost Washington goaltender start of 26-6-2.

Montreal has been out- his return from a one-game
injury absence as the Pen-
scored 22-6 while losing guins defeated Minnesota
3-1.
its last six games and has Eric Fehr and Patric Horn-
qvist also scored for the
dropped 10 of 11 since Penguins, who won con-
secutive games for the first
Dec. 1. time in six weeks.
Minnesota has lost six of
Detroit snared a share of its last seven against Pitts-
burgh. Jason Zucker net-
top spot in the Atlantic by ted for the Wild, who have
lost six of their past seven
winning 3-2 at Nashville. meetings with the Pen-
guins.
Brendan Smith had a goal Buffalo rallied from a two-
goal deficit in the third pe-
and an assist while Riley riod and overran Boston
6-3, with former Bruin Jack
Sheahan and Luke Glen- Eichel scoring twice for the
Sabres.
dening also scored for the Carolina’s Justin Faulk
scored the go-ahead goal
Red Wings. 8:17 into the third period
to lift the Hurricanes over
Filip Forsberg scored both New Jersey 3-1.
Tampa Bay’s Steven Stam-
goals for the Predators. kos had two power-play
goals and an assist during
Los Angeles’ Anze Kopitar the second period to pow-
er the Lightning to a 5-2
scored 36 seconds into win against Columbus.q

overtime to secure a 4-3

win against Arizona.

Kopitar saved the Kings on

a night when they rallied

from a one-goal deficit

only to squander a two-

goal lead. Drew Doughty,

Tanner Pearson and Dustin

Brown also scored for Los

Angeles.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson

scored twice and Antoine

Vermette added a goal

for the Coyotes.

Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby

had a goal and an assist in